Coming from the Open Source world I had never really worked with .NET – except for some minor Sharepoint 2007 stuff – until last September. That’s when I joined a project maintaining a .NET application written in C#.
Since I had previously worked with Java, becoming a (visiting) C# developer wasn’t that much of a leap. After all, C# was partly influenced by Java (learning new frameworks did of course impose some learning curve, but that’s of course independent of language).
C# has some nifty features that Java lacks, though. In many ways, it feels like a more modern language — pardon me for saying so! 
What follows are some of the things that I’ve started to like about C#.
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by Trond on February 6, 2010
Shoot me an e-mail at trondpet[curly-thingy]hotmail.com if you’re a US based employer in need of a sr. web developer with a proven track record. I’m a US citizen with no need of sponsorship.
My strengths are web development and -programming — from architecture and back-end programming to front-end coding. Below is a list of some of my skills. More about my project experience.
- PHP4/5 (WAMP/LAMP)
- Java
- JSP
- MySQL
- MSSQL
- XSLT
- JavaScript / Ajax
- jQuery
- XHTML
- CSS
- Topic Maps
- Information Modeling / Ontology Development
- Cross-Browser Issues
- WAI
I’ve currently got a few opportunities in sight, but am still open for exciting offers and am available for hire from early April on (arrive in the US on April 5 2010).
Feel free to contact me at trondpet[curly-thingy]hotmail.com, LinkedIn or Twitter.
by Trond on January 25, 2010
Happy New Year 2010
After a busy December month, the Christmas vacation finally gave me some room to concentrate on what really matters.
Here’s my third blog post on building web apps with Ontopia. A bit late – I had hoped to have it out before Christmas – but at least I made it within January 01 2010 … have a good one!
Getting to the Point
This blog post is part of a series on Web Application Development with Ontopia.
- Part 1: Installation & Requirements
- Part 2: Creating the Database
- Part 3: Creating the JSPs
In Part 2 of this series on building web applications with Ontopia we had a look at how to set up an application’s domain model using Ontopoly.
This post discusses how to go about building a custom web interface to present the data.
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by Trond on January 1, 2010
Introduction
Ontopia is an Open Source application that lets you create, manipulate and navigate information represented in topic maps. It’s also a toolbox for building all sorts of applications. Among the advantages of topic maps driven applications are enhanced navigation and search capabilities.
Ever since Ontopia went Open Source earlier this year, I’ve wanted to give an example of how easy it is to build a web application on top of it.
Through the next couple of blog posts, I’ll try to show exactly how easy this is – and I promise to leave out the unnecessary talk (wont discuss Topic Maps, for instance).
First I’ll “reveal” how to set up and start Ontopia. As this requires very little typing on my part, I’ll quickly move on to discuss what our goal is. Then we’ll have a look at the required data model, before pointing out the kinds of views that our application needs to support — and how to lay this out. Afterwards, we create the limited amount of code needed to get everything up and running. Last, we deploy.
All code will be available for download 
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by Trond on November 21, 2009
Although I don’t want this to turn into an IdM blog, I want to share at least a couple of more posts on using Sun IdM.
The reason is mainly that when I first started developing on Sun IdM last summer, I couldn’t find much information on the web. At the same time, I was, and is, not very happy with the (java)docs. I also assume that as the SOX and similar acts are getting widespread and gain impact, there will be more and more people in the same situation as myself and Holly.
So if you’re a Java or web- turning IdM developer, then hopefully this post can save some of your hair from certain death. If not, please bare with me
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by Trond on March 10, 2009
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