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This is written on a spanking new MacBook Pro, the 2.33 GHz, 2GB version. Company issued, mind you. Now if that is not a good reason to work for Valtech, I do not know what is.

The main reason I upgraded from my trusty 1.67 GHz G4 PowerBook was not speed, it was the possibilities of Parallels. I do quite a bit of evaluating and demoing of server configurations, and having it all available locally is a complete killer.

Almost all large companies I have come across have some standards regarding the technology stack that they are using.

The main reason behind this is economy, that developers should be able to rotate between projects and that operations should only have to worry about a limited number of software products. Something like that anyway

However nice this seems, it never delivers on its promise. It is much like the Gantt charts - looks nice, promises a lot, delivers zilch. Not counting the enormous upgrade cost when the whole stack is upgraded after 20 years - COBOL anyone?

Oh so brilliant.

Alan Francis: Quite the best pop video I’ve seen for AGES: " OK Go on YouTube

(Via Planet TW - Alumni.)

At least in the server world, Linux has won.

Here in Sweden, Microsoft has an inexplicable stronghold, even in the server room. The last time Craig Larman, Valtechs Chief Scientist, was here he noted that nowhere did he see as large proportion of server side windows as in Sweden - and Denmark.

I don’t know what makes swedes pay for stuff others get for free. Perhaps the high taxes have made us used to money disappearing?

A must read

(Via Labnotes.)

Todays Foxtrot reaches new levels of geekiness :).

If you haven’t seen these, you’re in for a treat.

I need to remember this one:

Chuck Reid: “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.”

(Via Quotes of the Day.)

For the love of software development - what the hell is this about? IBM, anyone?

IBM vs. Amazon: " The Internet has been amazingly quiet about IBM’s litigation against Amazon. It feels to me like maybe the biggest Internet story of, well, maybe, ever. I haven’t gone and read the IBM patents yet, because reading patents always depresses me. If the titles mean anything (not always a sure bet), this might mean that IBM has finally managed to figure out how to set up that Internet Tollbooth that we’ve always been afraid of. If you’re interested in ‘Presenting Applications in an Interactive Service’, ‘Storing Data in an Interactive Network’, ‘Presenting Advertising in an Interactive Service’, ‘Adjusting Hypertext Links with Weighted User Goals and Activities’, or ‘Ordering Items Using an Electronic Catalogue’, apparently IBM thinks you need to pay them for the right to do any of those things. If the courts agree with them, it’s time for me to find a new line of work.

This could actually turn out to be quite important down the road:

Writing Solaris Device Drivers in Java: “‘We present an experimental implementation of the Java Virtual Machine that runs inside the kernel of the Solaris operating system. The implementation was done by porting an existing small, portable JVM, Squawk, into the Solaris kernel. Our first application of this system is to allow device drivers to be written in Java. A simple device driver was ported from C to Java. Characteristics of the Java device driver and our device driver interface are described.’”