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Siden mit forrige blogindlæg, har jeg taget kontakt til Rejsekort A/S og efterfølgende haft flere møder med dem, primært med chefkonsulent Gregers Mogensen. Det har været ganske interesant at få lejlighed til at stille spørgsmål og få indblik i de problemstillinger i systemet som jeg selv har oplevet. Rejsekort A/S har været overaskende imødekommende og selv om min opfattelse måske er, at der har været lidt vel mange kokke i køkkenet, svarer de rimelig godt for sig og har anlagt en god pragmatisk holdning til tingene, hvilket incl. mig og mit lille indspark. Der har udspillet sig lidt af en kamp på ord , imellem pressen og Rejsekort A/S, som også jeg blev en mindre del af . Min eneste kommentar til denne del af debatten er nok, at jeg ingenlunde forventer at mobilproducenterne retter ind efter et dansk rejsekort, selv om det da ville være skønt hvis de gjorde. Udlevering af stationer/stoppesteder Ved mit andet møde fik jeg uden viddere udleveret et Excel-ark med samtlige station...

Læs også nyere indlæg om emnet i form af  Rejsekort Scanner i samarbejde med Rejsekort A/S . Status og statistik Så er det 2 uger siden at første version af Rejsekort Scanner landede i Google Play butikken, og en uge siden version2, og efterfølgende medier, tog nyheden op og fik udbredt budskabet. At sige at min hverdag tog en drejning, er en underdrivelse. Pludselig vrimlede det med aktivitet i min indbakke, på twitter, på Google Plus, YouTube, Linked In osv. Ja der var også kontakter fra folk der skriver speciale i det ene og det andet, eller som vil hjælpe med markedsføring, viddereudvikling osv. og det var ikke alle jeg nåede at vende tilbage til. Peak var på førstedagen oppe på små 50 samtidige brugere, der dog sidenhen er faldet en del. Som forventet, benytter folk app'en ret kortvarigt, ca. 10-20 sekunder af gangen. Der er nu over 5000 aktive brugere af app'en, der er landet på førstepladsen inde på Google Play både i den danske kategori "Transport...

I went over 5 years owning a state of the art smartphone without ever breaking the glass of one of them. However, those fine statistics came to an end about 10 days ago, when the phone slid out of my hand and went screen first straight into a tiled floor. Although the Samsung Galaxy SIII is no longer state of the art, it's still plenty fast and one of the latest smartphones which still has NFC Mifare support (to understand why this is important to me, read my previous post ). Furthermore, early march is possibly the worst month to go out and invest in a new smartphone, since both HTC and Samsung are launching their next generation model in a month from now. I've seen various videos on YouTube of people fixing the screen so I thought I'd try that, having very little to loose by attempting. I ordered this little kit from Amazon which arrived just a week later. As a guide to the actual process itself, I relied mostly on the one from iFixIt . The kit came with a sc...

Unusual to this blog, the following entry is in danish due to the topic being the national transit ticketing system in Denmark, also known as Rejsekort . Læs også nyere indlæg om emnet i form af   Opfølgning op launch samt Rejsekort Scanner i samarbejde med Rejsekort A/S . Rejsekort Scanner Som det eneste program af sin art, lader Rejsekort Scanner dig aflæse dit Rejsekort direkte og øjeblikkeligt blive informeret omkring check-in status, saldo, rejsehistorik mm. Der er altså hverken behov for data-forbindelse eller kompliceret opsætning! App'en er fungerer med Rejsekort Personligt, Anonymt samt Flex. Man skal bare have en smartphone med NFC der understøtter Mifare Classic smartcards. Rejsekort Scanner er en uofficiel app uden adgang til Rejskort A/S' officielle systemer, og programmet kender derfor heller ikke alle placeringen for begivenheder udover dem der er fundet manuelt. Hvis du ønsker at opdatere denne liste kan du slå "Download placeringer...

VirtualBox remains my favorite virtualization solution; it's free, runs everywhere and just does its job real nice - let's hope Oracle doesn't screw this one up as well! Specifically VirtualBox helps me as a developer needing to work in .NET/C#, without having to leave the Linux platform entirely. Let's face it, once you tried the power, freedom and flexibility of a GNU Linux operating system, it is rather hard to go back to the constraints of a Windows box. VirtualBox shared folder VirtualBox has a nice feature, where it can expose a folder from the host operating system, as a network share to the client operating system. This has been an approach I have used in the past as well, in order to still have the powerful Linux command-line available along with common utilities like maven, subversion, diff etc. Remember for this to work, you will have to install the Guest Additions in the virtual image. However, when working on some .NET code using DirectoryCatalog wh...

Oracle SQLDeveloper is one of those tools you just kind of need around, but with its slew of bugs around so once its setup, you try not to touch it. Occasionally, Oracle releases a new version (or an early preview) with some of the bugs fixed and this appears to be the case with version 4 Early Preview . Unfortunately, these early previews are no longer distributed as general gzip archives to work on any Linux/Mac distro, there's only a RedHat RPM installer for the Linux platform. Thankfully, this is easy to fix using the utility we known and love as Alien. Conversion of RPM to DEB Start by ensuring you have the Alien utility installed. ~$ sudo apt-get install alien Then after downloading the RPM package from Oracle, run it through the alien utility. ~$ sudo alien sqldeveloper-4.0.0.12.84-1.noarch.rpm Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package sqldeveloper: postinst Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts. sqldeveloper_4.0.0.12.84...

So I recently purchased a used car. It's in pretty good condition, but the master key with it's remote lock/unlock functionality, had seen better days - in fact, it could only unlock, not lock. Apparently these keys can't just be cloned so the car dealers have to install an entirely new key system which will cost in excess of US$500. Not having anything to loose, I set out to try and fix the key instead. The key looked like it had been chewed on by a dog or something, and then attempted fixed by melting the plastic and adding some epoxy. I took it apart and located a small plastic container housing the electronics and battery. The lithium battery seemed in fine condition, considering it was some 8 years old. With a scalpel, I cut open the rubber membrane around the button to get to what was underneath. To my surprise, there was a little button loose in there - so it was pretty obvious why it did not work! Obviously I would not be ...