Posts Archive

"I am actually 53 days older than the universe, I had no clue."

"Jon is leaving ThoughtWorks to join Google Jon is one of the most brilliant people I have been fortunate enough to work with. Congratulations to Google to have hired him."

"My suspicion that Sun will not continue to support PostgreSQL after purchasing MySQL was unfounded: From Jonathan Schwartz blog:: What happens to your commitment to PostgreSQL? It grows. The day before we announced the acquisition, and within an hour of signing the deal, I put a call into Josh Berkus, who leads our work with Postgres inside of Sun. I wanted to be as clear as I could: this transaction increases our investment in open source, and in open source databases."

"I cannot help myself from making a small comment on Rick Hightowers post on Groovy vs JRuby. In short he thinks Sun should support Groovy instead og JRuby, because the syntax is familiar to Java programmers. To support his case he presents a chart showing language popularity according to job postings. And since Ruby is at the bottom and Java is on the top, Sun should support Groovy. Which by the way is not even on the chart."

"There is an iPhone for sale on the swedish site Blocket: Funny part translated from swedish: “… I can include the telephone number to my friend who helped me unlock it”"

"There is one thing that strikes me in the Sun MySQL thingy - what about Sun’s previous commitment to PostgreSQL, where they say stuff like: “PostgreSQL for Solaris 10 is the open source enterprise database platform of choice”? Tim Bray comments on the deal and totally dismisses any alternatives: MySQL, you know, in my experience, it, well, Just Works. Runs great on our hardware and OS. Well, OK, GNU/Linux too. What else is there?"

"I am following the keynote via IRC and MacRumoursLive. Why am I like so many others totally intrigued by this? I suppose a lot of people would say that it is the gadget freak in me who wants to own everything coming out of Cupertino. But to me, this is not about the gadgets per se. It is about seeing progress being made, Others make progress as well, but nobody packages it as well as Apple does."

"Great news, NetNewsWire is available for free and available for download! (Via Macfeber)"

"Pats posts on team building and coaching are always a refreshing read. His latest on explaining rituals is no different and something I myself is notoriously bad at. (Via Planet TW)"

"After reading Aslaks post on his upcoming conferences it is obvious to me that Stockholm is sorely lacking in the conference space. Aslak mentions RubyFools in Copenhagen and Oslo, and Smidig 2008 in Oslo. RubyFools seems to be great, and I know that Smidig was awesome in 2007. The only conference I can think of in Stockholm is JFokus, which I hear is very good but Java only. Looking to the whole of Sweden we have Øredev which I always has found too unfocused, and Expo-C which I cannot tell if they exist anymore."