It is again winter holiday time here in Finland, and as our land is mostly flat, you need to travel a long way to reach any hills suitable for real downhill skiing. For me that means ~12 hour drive … more

A week ago we had Microsoft TechDays 2013 at Finlandia Hall, Helsinki. For me this was fifth year in a row talking at Finnish Techdays; once I have talked about Azure, all the other talks have been … more

Last year, when my kids got interested in learning to read and write, I decided to do what I tend to do: bring technology to the table. I created a simple web site that narrates input text, and shows … more

Today Microsoft’s Anders Hejlsberg introduced TypeScript, which basically is a language that compiles into JavaScript, very similar to CoffeeScript. There are some differences, though: whereas … more

I visited NDC 2012 and enjoyed the conference a lot. Again. Awesome speaker lineup without too much product group advertisements. Lots of thought provoking lessons. Lots of fun tongue-in-the-cheek … more

I know I’m late to the game but I received my Lumia only yesterday. I’ve had a Windows Phone 7 LG E900 a.k.a LG Optimus 7 for 16 months now and I’ve generally been very happy with … more

A while ago I blogged about forcing site rendering to be done with Internet Explorer’s latest engine. This feature is very well documented by Microsoft. Not that well documented is that adding … more

I guess this is a common problem: you need to have different web site layout for unauthenticated users. In simple cases this is very easy: just use masterPageFile attribute on views. But it gets more … more