The 3 apps that I have created for Windows Phone 7 so far are all available in the marketplace now

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My company Cryos International has just signed with a new franchisee in Mumbai, India. In order to prepare the new launch we are currently working hard on updating our internal documentation etc.

A part of the updates stuff for was to make sure our web statistics was up to date, which is why I again turned to Google Analytics. I discovered that Google Analytics has made a new javascript implementation which allows it to send statistics updates to multiple Google account. This feature is really cool, cause it will allow us to track statistics on our own and at the same time allow our franchisee’s to have their own Google Analytics account set up.

In the sample below I have set up the ga.js script to send statistics updates to both our tracker and our franchisee’s tracker:

<script type="text/javascript">
 var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)
? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
 document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost
 + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
 var pageTracker = null;
 
 //Tracker 1
 pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-XXXXX-X");
 pageTracker._initData();
 pageTracker._trackPageview();
 
 //Tracker 2
 pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-XXXXX-X");
 pageTracker._initData();
 pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>

Notice how I just reinitalize the pageTracker object and calls the same methods over again.

All in this means that I can track all our sites in our global Google Analytics account:

• Cryos International
• Cryos International – Denmark
• Cryos International – New York
• Cryos International – India

So thank you Google for providing a very nice statistics tool

So I’m slowly starting to prepare for two interns in the software development department at Cryos International – my workplace.

The internships will begin at the beginning of February and last for until the end of June. The interns are going participate in the regular developments efforts at Cryos International, that is our main product the CryoBase and further more our byproducts in the areas of Biometric identification, Business Intelligence, CMS integration.

My idea is to have several sessions where the interns are introduced to the technologies that we use and how we are using them. These technologies include:

• Sourcegear Fortress
• ASP.NET 2.0 (Visual Studio 2005)
• Microsoft SQL server 2005
• LLBLGen Pro
• Microsoft Reporting Services
• Umbraco CMS

I have allready started work on slides for the introduction to ASP.NET and my colleague Raghid Kawash has volunteered to prepare slides about LLBLGen Pro.

The way I planned to have the sessions is to start a given session in the morning and then let the interns work with the technology the rest of the day (and perhaps the next day if needed).

During the last 6 months I have been a project advisor for two students during their bachelor assignment at the Engineering College of Aarhus (IHA).

Besides myself the students have been blessed with two main advisors, Henrik Karstoft, lecturer at (IHA) and Rasmus Engholm, PHD student at Bang & Olufsen (B&O).

The purpose of the CasaVision project is to create software for automated video analysis of semen samples for Cryos International – my workplace. The software should ideally replace the manual process of counting and quality determination of the semen samples.

They turned in their paper in the middle of December and the exams are held in middle of next week. So right now I’m in process of reading their paper, 112 pages including the software documentation.

A few hours after the exam, the students are going to appear on a stand at the biannual public showcase held at IHA. To beef up the stand I have asked a colleague for the conference materials (Banner etc.) and I’m having a meeting with the students next week to plan the event.

Update: The danish engineers association has an article about CasaVsision (danish) on their website.
Update: The danish version of Metro Xpress written another article about CasaVision (danish) on their website and in their paper.

So I installed SQL Server 2008 on my work laptop, since I wanted to do some testing of it.

One thing that has always annoyed me at work is having to manually log into the server in order to compress the backup file. So one of the first tests I did with the new installation was to backup the Reporting Services database both without and without the new backup compression feature. I must say that I like the results so far.

Not only will this save me time during development, it will also cut down on the traffic costs to our hosting center.

Since I was moving my email to the company exchange from my own exchange server I also needed to export my web site, since I’m looking to stop paying for server hosting.

I thought I might as well move the web site and create a blog in go and therefore I choose wordpress for hosting the site. Since this allows me to post from Live Writer or Word.