Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky joint venture

Programming bloggers Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) and Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software) plans to use the stackoverflow.com domain to provide a competitor to experts-exhange. It sounds like a good idea. Unfortunately their podcast had weird noises when I played it (in XMMS on Sun Solaris 10 — don’t ask), so it was too annoying for… Continue reading Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky joint venture

WordPress crack attempt this morning!

When I got to work and viewed this blog I noticed that Sidebar Widgets was disabled. I thought "That’s weird!" When I tried to login to the administration interface I was told that my WordPress database needed upgrading. I thought "That’s weird!" Some further investigation revealed that someone managed to upload a PHP script called… Continue reading WordPress crack attempt this morning!

Andi Gutmans: “Java is losing the battle for the modern Web”

Andi Gutmans (of PHP fame) has written a very interesting blog post about Java’s future on the web. The article is called Java is losing the battle for the modern Web. Can the JVM save the vendors? He gives some good arguments for using a LAMP stack for web applications. One of the interesting quotes… Continue reading Andi Gutmans: “Java is losing the battle for the modern Web”

My cape and sword

In the Walt Disney short animated movie Ferdinand The Bull the matador never get to show off his cape and sword. Sometimes I feel like the matador and want to show off my cape and sword (i.e. my programming skills), but for various reasons I can’t. The bull (i.e. the task at hand) might be… Continue reading My cape and sword

SSL certificate anguish

Today I overcome my SSL certificate anguish. It used to be a bit of a mess to get it right, but it’s so simple on Ubuntu nowadays. It is almost only running the apache2-ssl-certificate command that is needed.

Mandriva synchronizes Windows Mobile devices out of the box!

I read Guido Diepen’s blog post Syncing WM5/WM6 made easy with new Mandriva and it seems like Mandriva has made SynCE and OpenSync work out the box with no pain whatsoever. It’s like a dream coming true! 🙂 Here is Adam Will’s video Synchronizing with Windows Mobile 5/6 made easy in Mandriva. Watch and enjoy!

No peering between TeliaSonera and Cogent Communications

vs. I noticed yesterday that I could not visit The Daily WTF or Podomatic. Today I started investigating and __henke__ in #data on irc.freenode.net told me that my ISP Telia and Cogent Communications had stopped peering. Related links in approximately chronological order: The Telia-Cogent Spat Could Ruin the Web For Many (gigaom.com) Cogent depeer’er Telia… Continue reading No peering between TeliaSonera and Cogent Communications