Change
Summer again and time for frantic attempts to upgrade oneself with a minimal effort.
I started on the atkins diet last week, having seen how effectively it has reduced my collegues at work in weight. The concept of denying the body carbohydrates in order to force it to use its own reserves is as simple as it is painfully obvious. The first couple of days were as expected, mood fell drastically, mostly due to lack of coffeine. Once I gave that one the finger, and started drinking coffee again, everything was cool. Plan is to weigh in every sunday, and measure progress. Tomorrow is the first week past with eating max 20g of carbs every day. If there is significant loss, I’ll let you in on it 🙂
Openly
My opensource project got a nice boost yesterday when Balsamiq mockups granted me a license to their no less than fabulous product. I am now able to sketch up user dialogs in zero time and discuss them almost real time with non-technical friends and family to plan the user experience way before I start coding. This saves me a bunch of time in redesign as well as giving everyone a chance to discuss and pitch ideas without feeling that they are imposing on a near-finished product. This product is, hands down, one of the best products for user interface design. I recommend it to anyone and everyone wanting to try out their design before they actually make it. You’ll be surprised!
Mock me, Amadeus!
I hit a barrier at work yesterday with the otherwise super cool mocking framework moq as it does not offer any stubbing functionality. This little feature lack results in that you actually have to decorate all your expectations with the virtual keyword, or extract an interface for the class that you’re mocking in order to let Moq override it. A nuisance, and one I hope that there will be a fix for in coming versions. I belive the proper term for what I want here is stub funcionality, but – I’ve been wrong on computer terminology before.
Press me over
Finally, just wanted to express how amazed I am with wordpress as a blogging tool. I hadn’t upgraded this software in over a year, and so much has happened since that I feel like I got a brand new blogging tool with great ease of use and administration. WordPress is seriously an awesome blog server!
Peace out.
