Yesterday I participated in the Accelerated Agile workshop at Øresund Agile 2008. It was attended by both developers and non-developers. Some parts of the workshop were common for the two groups and others were separate. Me and another developer actually did both TDD and pair programming! BestBrains, the company that organized the workshop, had prepared… Continue reading Accelerated Agile on Øresund Agile 2008
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Agile Architecture on Øresund Agile 2008
Today, on the first day of Øresund Agile 2008, I attended the Agile Architecture workshop held by Jim Coplien. He is a really great speaker! Some things that stuck in my head: Don’t use TDD, it destroys architecture because it makes the programmer focus on individual methods, losing the bigger picture on the way Don’t… Continue reading Agile Architecture on Øresund Agile 2008
Highway to Dell, part five
(Continued from Highway to Dell, part four.) My wife upgraded the Dell Inspiron 1525 to Ubuntu 8.04 ("Hardy Heron") the other day and as far as I know, everything works fine after correcting the No Sound After Distribution Upgrade issue. I still haven’t upgraded my Thinkpad T60p from Ubuntu 7.10 and it makes be both… Continue reading Highway to Dell, part five
ThoughtWorks opens Swedish office in June
I can’t help keeping an eye on ThoughtWorks so here comes a followup on I read that ThoughtWorks is looking at Sweden: According to Ola Bini’s ThoughtWorks comes to Sweden and Marcus Ahnve’s Joining ThoughtWorks, Starting Office in Stockholm they will be the ones manning the ThoughtWorks Swedish office that opens in June. By the… Continue reading ThoughtWorks opens Swedish office in June
Trying Twitter
See twitter.com/davideriksson.
Really cool consultancy opportunity at Novell
Miguel wrote: We are looking for consultants to work on a six to nine month project at Novell to write a prototype for a Visual Studio addin in C# or C++ that will connect Visual Studio and its debugging infrastructure to a remote Linux machine running Mono and the Mono Debugger. This sounds like something… Continue reading Really cool consultancy opportunity at Novell
Amazon Web Services used for ssh login attempts
I get ssh login attempts almost daily, mostly from DSL, asian or eastern european IP addresses but this one caught my eye: Illegal users from these: 75.101.221.220 (ec2-75-101-221-220.compute-1.amazonaws.com): 210 times admin/password: 16 times test/password: 15 times tester/password: 15 times testing/password: 15 times guest/password: 14 times adm/password: 6 times administrator/password: 5 times . . . It… Continue reading Amazon Web Services used for ssh login attempts
Domain-name based ssh login attempts
The last few weeks I have noticed some illicit ssh login attempts that uses parts of the reverse DNS domain name as user name when it tries to login. The last attempt looked like this in my LogWatch summary: Illegal users from these: 195.38.107.55 (aquila.euroexpert.tvnet.hu): 9 times root/password: 4 times cenara/password: 2… Continue reading Domain-name based ssh login attempts
Only two days left until Hardy Heron is released!
The WLAN router as a development platform?
I have a Fonera WLAN router (unfortunately it has been offline for a while now, but nevertheless) and I really like their thing. In their blog I read that their next generation WLAN router will be an open platform for developers. Interested developers will be able to join Fonosfera: The FON Development Community. Also worth… Continue reading The WLAN router as a development platform?