C|NET writes that the 34 European Commission member countries just signed an agreement committing themselves to, “Internet for All”. Looks like EU will require accessibility of all public web sites by 2010, through compliance with the relevant W3C common web accessibility standards and guidelines.
There is going to be a lot of code cleaning in the future. It’s going to be intresting to see how well this will be adapted.

I have been using MS Visual SourceSafe for source control in my work since 99 and I have never liked it. It has very limited features and not to mention random database crashes. If there is a one product I would like to send invoice to its creator from loose hours this would be it. It is a really bad product and nobody should use it.

Last year however I found a life savior. I made one project with Subversion SVN and it was a instant hit in my world. SVN delivers exactly what I need for developing projects, I can put everything to SVN not only code. Contracts, Specs, Photoshop layouts, Patches, DLL’s you name it.

Here is a little check list I found from MSDN Forums, this get’s you started with SVN.

• TortoiseSVN, a good Windows Explorer extension, despite it’s lack of support of Unicode support in any of its Diff tools. http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/download.html
• AnkhSVN -not a true SCC plug-in, instead works as an add-in, but has much better functionality that the other couple of SCC controls that I’ve tried. http://ankhsvn.tigris.org/
• SVN Explorer - pretty basic tool, but at least provides a stable Explorer-like stand-alone repository explorer. http://kafana.org/SvnExplorer/
• WinMerge – an excellent freeware open-source file Difference viewer, and merge tool WITH unicode support (use the WinMergeU.exe file). http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
• imageDiff – good free tool for comparing two images for changes. http://www.download.com/ImageDiff/3000-2192_4-10401779.html. Note: connects to the internet to display ads in a pane at the bottom, but if you use Zonealarm, then disable Internet access, whilst allowing access to the trusted zone. This prevents the program from freezing, without allowing it to display ads.
• Finally – WebReports8, another VSS.NET add-in. I haven’t actually finished trying this, but it has some nice features. You’ll have to re-compile it with the “_scc” option. See here http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/file_diff_and_webreports.asp#xx1167087xx read the details on the modification that needs to be performed, then scroll up to the main article)

I just read that The Pirate Bay is back in Swedish servers, so I decide to check myself if it’s true…

Tracing route to thepiratebay.org [83.140.176.146]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 3 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1

2 10 ms 10 ms 9 ms lo1.bynxx16.ip.tele.dk [80.166.138.133]

3 10 ms 39 ms 13 ms ge1-0-50.1000M.bynxg5.ip.tele.dk [83.88.8.194]

4 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms pos6-0.2488M.bynxg2.ip.tele.dk [83.88.27.13]

5 11 ms 16 ms 9 ms pos3-0.2488M.virnxg2.ip.tele.dk [83.88.20.230]

6 10 ms 9 ms 8 ms so-0-2-0.622M.virnxj2.ip.tele.dk [83.88.0.74]

7 10 ms 9 ms 10 ms 192.38.7.43

8 20 ms 19 ms 19 ms hey.mpaa.and.apb.bite.my.shiny.metal.ass.thepiratebay.org [83.140.176.146]

Trace complete.

The last line was pretty funny

We were in a park last weekend enjoying first hot summer day. Here is the photo.

Now that the Rich Internet Applications are getting more and more popular, just like any other environment we are getting problems from the bad guys.  Now that the door is opened publicly there will be lots of crackers crawling through AJAX codes and finding holes to insert their own little exploits, this of course means that more security problems like the Yamanner worm are along the way.

What makes it a problem in AJAX world is that source-code is relatively easy to get and for writing an exploit you don’t have to be a clever guy, it’s pretty easy. Also for AJAX developers it’s very hard to filter out possible exploits and write safe JavaScript.

So how to solve security problems that JavaScript brings us?

Btw: Here is a source of XHR object that made all this possible.

Robert Scoble has left from Microsoft and he is going to join Silicon Valley startup PodTech.net as a videoblogger. I wasn’t really surprise that he left from Microsoft, IMHO he wasn’t really “Microsoft material” but just because of that he made Microsoft look much more interesting and appealing company through he’s blog. I would have expected him to go work at Google.  I think Scoble and Google would be a match, even the names fits together .

Well, best of luck to Robert Scoble I will continue reading he’s blog now with even more interesting news and thoughts.

I have been busy last years building sites using Sitecore 4 and Sitecore 5. I decided to list some of the sites that I can think of and write down small description what did I do on these projects.

Live: May 18 2006

http://www.odense.dk/havnen/

Google Maps Mashup, some ajax programming and CM architechture to Sitecore V5.2.

Live: October 2005

http://www.danskpsykologforening.dk/

Some XSLT ja scrpting.

Live: February 2006

http://www.nordana.com/

Pretty much everything in the front-end. From design to CM architecture (Sitecore 4) and XSLT programming, flash, client-side scriptings.

Live: June 2005
IAK
http://www.iak.dk/, https://www.iakonline.dk/
Webdesign, XSLT, CM architecture (Sitecore 4).

Live: December 2005

http://www.dhigroup.com/

Code optimazation, JS and XSLT tuning. (Sitecore 4)
Live: July 2006

http://www.drf-dk.dk/

Design, XSLT and CM architecture (Sitecore 4).

Live: May 2005
http://www.niras.com/ http://www.niras.dk/
JavaScript, XSLT and CM architecture (Sitecore 4).

Live: May 2004

http://www.danskfjernvarme.dk/

Design, Webdesign, XSLT, CM architecture (Sitecore 4)
Live: January 2005

http://www.gerni.com/

XSLT, CM Architecure (Sitecore 4)
Live: —

http://www.nktcables.com/

Some XSLT programming (Sitecore 4)
Live: —

http://www.lejerbo.org/

Design, XSLT (Sitecore 4)
Live: —

http://www.datatilsynet.dk/

converting HTML3.2 to XHTML and CSS layout

Skævinge Kommune
Live: —

http://www.skaevinge.dk/

CSS layout

Samsø Kommune
Live: —

http://www.samsoe.dk/

CSS Layout

Live: —

http://www.nettest.com/

Some XSLT’s

No urls
Nordvestjysk Taxcenter
CSS Layout
Thisted Kommune
Intranet.
DHI
Intranet
IAK
Intranet