Cooking

Posted on October 7, 2009 by strobaek

I have always had a passion for good food or rather gourmet food and the cooking of such. Ever since high school, where I was able to seduce my female classmates with dishes like Coniglio alla Provenzale, Osso Buco or if time was scarce Pizza Gorgenzola, I have enjoyed the tranquility of preparing a gourmet meal for my friends and loved ones.

During my time studying economics at the University of Copenhagen, I have spend many evenings producing ‘physical stuff’ after spending the day with more or less abstract subjects within the fields of micro economics or game theory.

I will never reach the level of my good friend Mark – who actually cares if you should use blood oranges for sauce Maltaise or not – and these days, with screaming kids demanding ever increasing amounts of food, it is seldom that I actually have the time to engage in big gourmet productions. Once in a while, we do make time to cook and fill up the freezer with everything from spring rolls over lasagna to pirogues and frikadeller (Danish meat balls).

Bone Appétit.

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Garmin Rocks

Posted on September 30, 2009 by strobaek

A couple of years ago I bought a running watch. The Garmin Forerunner 305 (http://bit.ly/NQzt0). At the time I bought it, I had the old 201, so it was really a step up. Newer models have come since, but this one does the trick – if you remember to charge it; today it died on me around 15K.

Apart from the GPS and the wireless heart rate monitor, it tell you all you need to know when sweating it out on the road. As an added benefit, you can upload your training session to Garmin Connect (formerly known as MotionBased). I know, you can live without it, but personally I really like to keep track of your training sessions and see how you did compared to e.g. last year at the same time.

A few words about the training: this and also next week I still work on getting some miles into those old legs. After this I will go for speed for a few weeks doing intervals and after this revert back to the training program derived by Lars Bom (to the Danes: yes the actor). Drop me a line if you are interested.

Happy running to all.

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Dev Days Aarhus 2009

Posted on September 16, 2009 by strobaek

I am going to attend Dev Days in Århus tomorrow, organized by Århus .NET User Group (www.anug.dk).

Enough praise cannot go to the people from aung who put these events together.

Come over and say ‘hi’ if you are around; it would be nice to put a live face to some of the “virtual” people in ones life 🙂

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Photo Booth

Posted on September 14, 2009 by strobaek

Until a year ago I did not have a personal computer. I mean, I had one, but it was not my own private box, but rather a laptop supplied by the company. It had been this way for ages; almost all my professional career. Then last year I finally bought one. A really nice iMac which I just love. It has so many nice features and if I need windows – which I do for all the professional stuff I do – I use Fusion, which works perfectly.

Anyway, one of the “build in” apps is photo booth, a small application using the build-in web cam to take pictures like you were sitting in a photo booth at the station or airport or mall or … My youngest was very fast in finding out the Mac had such an app and ever so often when I work, he comes in and “demands” that we take a few pictures.

Latest addition to the album 🙂

Dad vs. Son

Dad vs. Son

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Running

Posted on September 9, 2009 by strobaek

Finally got my act together and did some running this morning after a loooong summer break. Nothing fancy. A slow 10k around the countryside. Man did it hurt. I keep forgetting how it is to start up again after a break and every time I swear it will be the last time I goof around instead of tying those shoelaces up regularly.

It does not help either, that my sister has announced that she will do the Seattle Marathon in November. Well, if she likes it, maybe I can convince her to come to Copenhagen in May next year for the Copenhagen Marathon if I in return go to Seattle in November 2010.

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ReSharper

Posted on August 31, 2009 by strobaek

I have been playing around with ReSharper today. Thanks to rasmuski for an excellent introduction.

First impression is good. Lots of shortcuts to learn, but this could definitely be a productivity booster.

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Yet Another Code Snippet formatter

Posted on August 29, 2009 by strobaek

First some text.

Then some code:

[TestClass]

public class MyTest

{

    public MyTest()

    {

    }

    

    [TestMethod]

    public void Test()

    {

      // Fixture setup

      // Exercise system

      // Verify outcome

      Assert.Inconclusive();

      // Teardown

    }

}

Then some more text:

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Code Test, Take 2

Posted on August 29, 2009 by strobaek

This is a test of formatted code:

        public CompleteStorageService(string connectionString, string fileName)
        {
            if (connectionString == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException("connectionString");
            }
            if (fileName == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException("fileName");
            }

            this.connectionString = connectionString;
            this.fileName = fileName;

            this.syncLock = new object();
        }

Thanks ploeh …

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Kræmmermarket

Posted on August 29, 2009 by strobaek

Today was the yearly cultural day and fair in our small town. Lene had a stand and was actually able to sell some of our junk … ups … I mean valuables we no longer have a need for 😉

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Formatting code

Posted on August 29, 2009 by strobaek

I’m trying to find the best plugin for formatting the code.

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