Archive for the ‘misc’ Category

Speaker at Scandinavian Web Developer Conference

I will share my experiences with Developing Large-Scale Websites using JavaScript on the upcoming Scandinavian Web Developer Conference 2010 in Stockholm, 24-25 May. I’m looking forward to it, it is great being back doing presentations – something I did frequently many years ago during the dot-com period.

Clone VirtualBox images (.vdi)

Just copying a VirtualBox .vdi file and the opening it results in the error: Cannot register the hard disk ‘myhd.vdi’ with UUID {ABCD} because a hard disk ‘myhd2.vdi’ with UUID {ABCD} already exists in the media registry (‘path/VirtualBox.xml’). The solution is to generate a new UUID for the copy. This is done using: VBoxManage internalcommands [...]

iPhone Developer Meetup Stockholm

Just organized the first meetup of Sweden iPhone Developer User Group in Stockholm. Presentations available here and a report from the evening at iphone24.se (in Swedish).

Copyright sign using numpad

Reminder to myself: to get a copyright-sign © hold ALT and type 0169 using the numpad.

Visio figures in LaTeX

This is one way to use figures made in Microsoft Visio in your latex (pdfLatex) document. The first step is to get the figure as a PDF file. If you are using Visio 2007 you may use the PDF add-in from Microsoft. Another option is using Adobe Acrobat or the free PDFCreator. When printing, select [...]