Author: Anders Abel

Why did the Respect for Tech Skills get Lost?

Technical skills is the core of any development project. In the end it is the skilled programmers that write the code that forms the product. Everything else is just support to ensure the coders develop the right features in the right order. But somehow management tend to look at the developers as the lowest level… Continue reading Why did the Respect for Tech Skills get Lost?

Rerunning all Unit Tests with Different UI Culture

I was recently made aware that some unit tests for Kentor.AuthServices were failing on non-English computers. To handle that, I set up an Azure VM with Swedish installed and made a special unit test that would run all other tests with different UI cultures. When I first understood that I had tests that were broken… Continue reading Rerunning all Unit Tests with Different UI Culture

Add a Language to Windows Azure Visual Studio VM

I was recently made aware that some unit tests for Kentor.AuthServices were failing on non-English computers. To be able to test a different setup I turned to Azure and set up a machine with VS2013 Pro and installed Swedish language support. Once I found the right way, it was very straight forward. The problem was… Continue reading Add a Language to Windows Azure Visual Studio VM

Writing A WordPress Theme with Bootstrap 3

I took the redesign of Passion for Coding as an opportunity to learn Twitter Bootstrap and also to learn som PHP by writing a WordPress theme. Bootstrap is Awesome Working with Bootstrap is totally awesome. For the first time when doing web page layout I didn’t have divs jumping around all over the place with… Continue reading Writing A WordPress Theme with Bootstrap 3