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This year I have decided to create my own advent calendar on the blog. I see this an opportunity to explore some new programming languages, and as such my advent calendar will be called “24 days of Hello World”. I will post a simple “Hello World” in a new language every day. In addition to some code example, I will write a bit on the compilers, some advantages and disadvantages, and also typical uses of the particular language. I will not name any of the languages now, as that will take away some of the surprise. ...

As anyone probably can relate to, time is valuable. There is only 24 hours in a day, and in that time you need to sleep, eat, work, etc. Over the years I have tried several different tools to optimize the way I spend every day, and to make my everyday life as productive as possible. What works for me might not work for you, but I want to share some of the tools I use, and talk a bit about how I make sure I get the most out of every day. ...

Last week I attended a course, called “Essential .NET 4.5 with C#”, in London. The course was hosted by Developmentor (currently in the process of joining Global Knowledge), and the course instructor was Ron Sumida. The course is aimed at people who is starting with C# and .Net, after a year or so, of experience with Java or C++. I don’t have that experience, but I have been working with .Net at my job for the last half year, and before that a few months on my own time. I still thought the course seemed right for me, as I am self-taught in the world of .Net, and I was not disappointed. ...

At the time of writing this blog post, I am flying home from London. Me and my SO have visited London at least once a year the last few years, so it has become a tradition. This year we had a shorter weekend trip, primarily to go see Hamlet. It was fun trying something new, as we haven’t seen a theater play before, but that is not why I’m writing this post. ...

When working with mobile applications (or applications in general) there is often a need to store and retrieve data. For informational apps you could simply have a local database, with all data present. However when developing apps for smart phones (and tablets) you need to consider the size of the app. You don’t want to store a lot of data, when the user might need only a subset of it. Naturally this is dependent on how much data you have to store, but for this post I’ll focus on apps that stores a greater amount of data. I’ll talk a bit about storing data in the cloud, my go-to back end service (Parse) and I’ll mention some of the other, big competitors in this field. ...