I am happy to report that this site receives 50 to 80 unique visitors per day on average, and that the PDF version is downloaded roughly 11 times daily. I posted my thesis on the Web under a Creative Commons license in the hope that people would find it useful, but never expected the site to [...]

I successfully defended my thesis today. The 30-minute presentation I used is available. I have also uploaded the final version of the thesis to this site, in both PDF and XHTML formats. The PDF version is licensed under the Creative Commons license Attribution-Non-commercial-NoDerivative Works 2.5 Sweden.
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I will publicly defend my thesis on January 27 at the Department of Computer Science at Lund University, in room E:2116 at 2:15 pm.

Kevin Smith, the maintainer of plasTeX, has informed me that the feature additions I described earlier are now in the version control system used by plasTeX, CVS. If you use source code listings in LaTeX, or need to produce good-looking PNG images from your PDF source files on Linux, give the latest version of plasTeX [...]

The XHTML version of this thesis uses Kevin Smith’s Python-based plasTeX processing framework to convert my LaTeX sources to XHTML. I have made a few additions to plasTeX to enable it to successfully process my thesis. Notably, I have written a basic plasTeX version of the “listings” LaTeX package (for use by my source code [...]

My advisor at Sony Ericsson sent me an e-mail today, informing me that they had reviewed my draft and had no complaints. (They wrote that they found it “well-founded” and “elegantly worded.”) As a result, I have posted the full draft version to this web site, including Chapter 6, “The (Sony) Ericsson way” and section [...]

The thread I started in a Delphi newsgroup has evolved into an interesting argument, comparing the development style favored by many Delphi developers — linking software statically — to the one I discuss in this thesis (partitioning a software system into reusable components that are linked at runtime). It’s an interesting discussion for sure — [...]

I have spent some time in forums related to the technologies I cover in Chapter 5, and have gotten useful feedback that will inform the next round of editing. (Some of the feedback has only been sent to me privately.) My .NET material seems to be correct, and that goes for the COM material as [...]

I have posted the first public draft of my thesis, primarily to get feedback I can use to weed out the most egregious errors before I am (tentatively) set to defend it in March. I plan on soliciting reviews from some of the communities that have formed around the technologies I discuss — namely, Visual [...]