http://www.decorus.dk/blog weblog of Mikkel Byrsø Dan-Rognlie Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:26:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some months ago I realized that my blog posts from May 13, 2007 to May 4, 2008 was gone!! Although I haven't been the most active blogger (it was only 15 posts) it was frustrating. Especially because some of them concerned my graduation as master of science, that our thesis ... http://www.decorus.dk/blog/2008/11/16/lost-a-year-of-blog-posts-but-recovered/ En del medier har dækket historien om at Xin og jeg vandt KMD-prisen for årets bedste IT-speciale på IT-Universitetet i København. Jeg har samlet en række links til artikler og hjemmesider herunder: TV2 Computerworld Version2 ErhvervsAvisen teknikogviden.dk  ITU KMD Ementor Capgemini Lund&Bendsen cialis discount pricecialiscialisviagracialiscialisviagralevitra prescriptionviagra mastercardcialis soft pricesviagra ... http://www.decorus.dk/blog/2008/05/04/medied%c3%a6kning-af-vores-speciale-pris/ Fredag d. 25/4-2008 modtog Xin Yao og jeg "KMD-prisen" for årets bedste IT-speciale (på IT-Universitetet i København). Udover hæder og ære ved at vinde prisen udløste det et rejselegat på 20.000,- som Xin og jeg selvfølgelig skal dele. Vi fik overrakt prisen som en del af dimissionsfesten for de nye ... http://www.decorus.dk/blog/2008/04/28/vundet-pris-for-arets-bedste-it-speciale/ The Mac is nice! The startup sound on Mac is a pain in the ass! Until today I have had to live with this annoying chime each time I boot the Mac. There is no way to turn it off out of the box! The only thing you can do ... http://www.decorus.dk/blog/2007/10/23/mute-the-mac-startup-sound-for-good/ I've been using Quicksilver on my Macbook Pro for a while. This is a very nice utility for application launching and productivity in general. Recently I installed a Boot camp partitition with Vista, but I really consider removing Vista and return to XP because of performance issues. Vista is so ... http://www.decorus.dk/blog/2007/10/19/quicksilver-on-mac-colibri-or-launchy-on-windows/ Martin Fowler has written a small post with a great example of how good imagination can be crucial to iteratively release software with a small subset of features. It's a funny example on how you quickly can get a product to market that actually works thus creating business value fast. I would ... http://www.decorus.dk/blog/2007/10/04/rollerskateimplementation-and-time-to-market/ I did it! September 10, 2007 I defended my master thesis at an oral exam (got the grade 10 in the new danish grade system, which corresponds to a B in the ECTS scale). Now I'm entitled Cand.it / M.Sc. in Information Technology with Software Development as my specialty. It is very nice to finally ... http://www.decorus.dk/blog/2007/09/14/msc-in-information-technology/ Today Xin Yao and I handed in our thesis at the IT-University of Copenhagen with the title "Distributed Transaction Management in SOA-based System Integration". Next monday we will defend it at an oral exam. It has been seven interesting months with a lot of work, especially in the last couple of weeks! I ... http://www.decorus.dk/blog/2007/09/03/msc-thesis-delivered/ The Java EE 6 proposal (JSR 316) was published yesterday. Rod Johnson (creator of the Spring Framework and the man originally against J2EE / EJB) has written a blog post "Java EE Gets it Right" where he welcomes the new JSR and looks forward to participate in the expert group. He thinks that Java EE 6 can ... http://www.decorus.dk/blog/2007/07/04/java-ee-6-proposal-published/ Gavin King and crew has relased Seam 2.0 beta with many new features and bug fixes. The Seam 2.0 codebase is more robust, better organized, better documented and is designed to take Seam beyond the world of JSF Read Gavin's blog post herecheap generic viagracheap viagrafamvir discountpurchase cialis softpurchase viagra ... http://www.decorus.dk/blog/2007/07/01/seam-20-beta/ http://www.decorus.dk/blog/2007/06/30/71/ Back in April the WS-TX 1.1 standard (WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction and WS-BusinessActivity) got accepted as a standard by OASIS. The official announcement is now out as announced by Mark Little in this post at infoq.com. This is interesting because these standards, and transaction processing in a Web service context in general, is the primary focus in ... http://www.decorus.dk/blog/2007/05/24/ws-tx-11-standard-officially-announced/ At JavaOne, Sun announced what they call their Flash-killer: JavaFX. JavaFX is a runtime library and scripting language for rich clients. It this early stage it is accessable through dev.java.net. I tried some of the samples and it looks quite cool - especially compared to Sun's other UI tools like Swing. ... http://www.decorus.dk/blog/2007/05/10/javafx/ The Sun JSF team with Ed Burns in front has decided to go public with a pre-JCP-filing of the JSR for JavaServer Faces 2.0. You can read the announcement in this post from Ed Burns. The draft for the JCP-filing is located here. This is cool stuff! It brings a lot of new ... http://www.decorus.dk/blog/2007/04/05/javaserver-faces-20-jsr-draft/ As of February 2007 I officially quit as Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) at the IT-University of Copenhagen. I have to focus on my thesis, family, and job. After all I didn't feel I contributed much to the network and Henrik Westergaard Hansen (Academic Developer Evangelist at MS in Denmark) and I agreed on my ... http://www.decorus.dk/blog/2007/03/14/quit-as-microsoft-student-partner/