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Peter Strömblad

Peter lives in Sweden and is an independent contractor with hosting services.

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Live every day - as it's an important day!
Early this morning I got the message that a very close friend got hit by a car on her bike road to work yesterday morning. She sustained such severe trauma to the head that she died. She leaves husband and small children. The driver was temporary blinded Read More...
Repetitive work in SQL
Just wanted to share the two SQL scripts I produced last week. They are stored procedures that create standard looking CreateUpdate and Get procedures for any given table in SQL-Server. I've published the scripts at sqlservercentral.com and they are free Read More...
C# Null, DBNull and Entities
I've been working like mad to get my 3-tier construction to work. As I'm not all that great in C# yet, I delightedly discovered that C# supports nullable types. Now finally I can match my database constructions with a proper entity in code, and as well Read More...
Codename: Madmin
The time has come to start a long awaited project! Madmin is my codename , until someone has a better name for it. Madmin is short of Mailserver Administrator. All the way back from 2000 we've administered our Mercury installations through a web interface, Read More...
You know Windows Update is flawed - don't you?
Automatic updates of software are good - aren't they? Well I'd answer yes in normal cases, but anything that is automatic can behave in ways the creators never imagined. So it is with fire alarms, burglar alarms, and of course with computing. This patch Read More...
arrrrgh web apps
Writing apps for the webb is a challenging task. What takes a normal hour when creating "normal" apps takes four times when working a three tier webb-app. There are simply so many pits you can fall in. In any case I thought I'd share some very interesting Read More...
Time off
Imagine doing whatever you love most, 24 hours a day - how long would you be able to stay awake? My body and mind defenitely needed a good rest. Summer 2007 was the WORST summer I can remember. The first day my Wife (who has an ordinary job as a mech. Read More...
Sorry - site was inaccessible last nite
A fault occured last night, occupying the server at a 100% - thus making responses so slow that browsers timed out. The problem wasn't all easy to locate, but eventually we found that the server logs, and database transaction logs had grown beyond reasonable Read More...
Firewalling
No Fire, just a wall - or another brick ... True Firewall Appliances are fine, complicated and feature rich. Some have a feature called DNS Doctoring, which means that a DNS A request is translated from one IP into another. This is very useful, when you Read More...
Happy Holidays
Wish you all a nice couple of days off. Cheers / Peter Read More...
Thank you
First of all, thank you all - for making the community work the way it works. I think it works very well, and I am very pleased to see that we have passed 700 registered users. This sunday we had over 200 visitors simultaneously, searching and browsing Read More...
April oh April, Where art thou?
Time certainly flies, so fast it's hard to recall what I did this month: Got community.pmail.com working Added lots of info to community.pmail.com Added overview pages, even editable content Added forms for feedback and ads-interests Bought CS-2007, that Read More...
Malware from hell !
Yesterday I installed a newer version to a software I've trusted for a longer period of time. With the update from version 2.5 to 2.8 of FTP-Master I got as a bonus NDotNet . It's an adware, pretty harmless according to all leading antivirus experts. Read More...
A bit about me
In case email isn't quick enough here is my cell-no: CellPhone: +46.705556771 Fax: +46.418664087 We live in the countryside in a big old school built about 1896, and the hobby is to re-model this house. The servers are placed at our facility in Lund, Read More...
Lots of content added
A couple of nights now I have test driven this site. Have taken nearly all content from the official site onto different forums, articles and downloads and I'm getting pleased. I also managed to alter post dates so that files and posts can resemble the Read More...
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