Mads Nissen

Setting up the Lenovo Telenor Broadband Connection on Windows 7

madsn — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:36:00 GMT

I'm on Flesland right now and decided to get the free trial for the Telenor Turbo 3G for Lenovo a go. After applying here Telenor will instruct you to use Thinkvantage Access Connections to get online but this won't work with Windows 7 (or it might be...(read more)

401 errors when accessing Sharepoint or IIS locally from Windows 2008 Server

madsn — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:02:00 GMT

Phui.. after months of problems logging into weblogs.asp.net I finally got some help and I'm back in:) Most experienced web developers and IT pros have encountered the good ole' DisableLoopbackCheck problem when accessing websites from the local machine...(read more)

"Operation could destabilize the runtime" error with ASP.NET Medium Trust level in Cassini on Vista

madsn — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:48:00 GMT

Just because this apparently is not noted anywhere within googles reach I wanted to make a note of this for the potentially frustrated: If you're trying to run an ASP.NET app under medium trust on Vista with UAC enabled you'll probably see this exception...(read more)

Reporting Services does not display Hyperlink for Placeholder with Go to URL Action

madsn — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:27:00 GMT

Got really puzzled about this thing. Fortunately Christian Norbakk had the explanation of the problem: When using Reporting Services in Sharepoint Integrated mode a Placeholder with Go to URL action will not render as a hyperlink for VALID internal links...(read more)

Review of the List Web Part for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

madsn — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:56:00 GMT

Javista recently announced the release of the Sharepoint 2007 List Web Part for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 . By coincidence one of Puzzlepart services customers needed some connections between MOSS and CRM 4.0 so I decided to take the new webpart for...(read more)

Solution for Subversion 502 Bad Gateway problem when using Forefront as reverse proxy

madsn — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:43:00 GMT

Just as a slight note to self, but possibly useful for others running Subversion under Apache 2 on Windows (2008 in my case) behind Forefront TMG (nextgen ISA Server). The setup was working very good until I tried committing a move or a copy from my local...(read more)

Running TypeMock with Gallio on build server or agent without local install

madsn — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:44:00 GMT

I tend to dislike having to do local installs of software on my Puzzlepart build servers (or agents) because this also means that developers will need to install something specific to be able to build the project. That's bad and unfortunately the norm...(read more)

A few comments on the Microsoft Dynamics 5.0 sneak peek

madsn — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:07:00 GMT

Simon Hutson wrote about the new features of CRM 5.0 and was forced to remove it again. Fortunately Stefano Demiliani posted it too , and now the content is reblogged all over:) The release time for CRM 5.0 is indicated to be late 2009, or 2010. From...(read more)

Puzzlepart with openness as core value

madsn — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:55:00 GMT

The development of Puzzlepart getting very concrete. In the past few months I've been working very hard on getting the entire business concept just right. I've put a lot of emphasis on talking to just about every possible stakeholder in a potential Puzzlepart...(read more)

NRK P3 Visits Puzzlepart HQ

madsn — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:20:00 GMT

Some friday fun out of the ordinary:-) In the time of the writing I have the pleasure of some company from norwegian broadcasting radio channel P3 . Every friday their program Kompani Knudsen provides some company for people working alone, and this friday...(read more)

More off-topic: Skype High Quality Video, Sesam 3D Maps ++

madsn — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:07:00 GMT

Really getting into the slightly off-topic flow today:) I recently bought a new Logitech QuickCam Sphere AF camera for the sole purpose of testing Skype High Quality video. Inspired by other testers giving it thumbs up I wanted to see for myself if this...(read more)

Setting up a robust infrastructure: Are Cisco stuck in the 90'ies?

madsn — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:52:00 GMT

Beeing an entrepreneur really exposes you for all levels of operational handywork. The one day I'm putting the finishing touch on the businessplan and the budgets, and the next I'm stuck in the server room trying to get the firewall running. Now, I wouldn...(read more)

TypeMock enables Sharepoint Unit testing

madsn — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:40:00 GMT

This is an interesting one from Roy: Typemock are offering their new product for unit testing SharePoint called Isolator For SharePoint, for a special introduction price. it is the only tool that allows you to unit test SharePoint without a SharePoint...(read more)

Sensible Document Template file management with Sharepoint

madsn — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:53:00 GMT

Great and up-to-date document templates are one of the key motivators for adoption of a document management system. Creating an effective centralized document template management solution with Sharepoint is not difficult. However there are a few potential pitfalls that should be avoided....(read more)

GameCamp Oslo - Inspirational Boosting

madsn — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:25:00 GMT

Yesterday I left my dayjob early to go with my brother Marius to the Oslo GameCamp at my former school NITH . I really wanted to get a better understanding of game programming and my brother (who is 18) is considering getting more into programming so...(read more)