During the afternoon today I attended the first part of a mostly in-house course Scrum for team members led by Arne Åhlander. I’ll hopefully write more about it later, but now I’m going to work on The Project. Before I forget; I was recommended Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting at GleSYS. Anyone else who can… Continue reading Coding, not blogging
Project prioritization – Inspect and Adapt!
I try to avoid telling myself that I don’t have time for this or that. The truth is that it comes down to how I prioritize those things. I naturally try to put family and work first, but I also make room for my own projects and ideas. Some projects only take a few hours,… Continue reading Project prioritization – Inspect and Adapt!
Thinkpad X300
The not yet released Lenovo Thinkpad X300 seems to be a worthy competitor to the Apple Macbook Air, but with more features than the Air and with Solid State Drive (SSD) as the only storage option makes it smell even more expensive. It has been a bit too little about software development in this blog… Continue reading Thinkpad X300
Using F-Secure Health Check to save hard disk space
After my struggle to install Flash I finally managed to run F-Secure Health Check on the only computer running Windows in the house, my gaming computer with with 512 megabytes of RAM and only 40 gigabytes hard disk drive. It is almost ancient by today’s standards and I had old versions of numerous softwares. At… Continue reading Using F-Secure Health Check to save hard disk space
Sun buys MySQL AB!
Read more at MySQL.com and Sun.com. Good it’s not Oracle. Oracle, on the other hand, managed to buy BEA.
XSLT hacker
So far, this week has been a week of XSLT hacking. My favorite is probably the XSLT script that generates another XSLT script! 🙂 At one point I wanted to copy the default namespace (xmlns=…) from the source document to the destination document. I did like this to retrieve the URI for the default namespace.… Continue reading XSLT hacker
On the bus, and not
I’m writing this on the bus on my way back home from work. The handwriting recognition on my Nokia 770 takes some getting used to but works quite alright. I’m thinking of buying a Nokia N810 but I’m not so sure. Starting from this sentence I’m writing from the comfort of my study. The travel… Continue reading On the bus, and not
A “proxy” that converts a Real Player audio stream to MP3?
While working on creating an Atom feed from a web page I got the idea to create a proxy that takes an audio stream in Real Player format over RTSP/RTP/RDP and converts it to MP3 over HTTP. It should actually not be harder than to use mplayer to “play” the stream to lame and then… Continue reading A “proxy” that converts a Real Player audio stream to MP3?
Creating an Atom feed from a web page
Most of my time at the computer yesterday was spent working on an unofficial syndication of the broadcast archive for the Swedish radio show P3 Rytm. It’s actually quite simple… 🙂 Use curl to download the web page broadcast archive for the show Use iconv to convert the page to UTF-8 Use tidy to convert… Continue reading Creating an Atom feed from a web page
Installing Adobe Flash Player on Windows XP: Problems and solution
Yesterday I wanted to run the excellent F-Secure Health Check web application on my gaming computer. The health check only runs in Internet Explorer, but I don’t use IE if I can avoid it and apparently I had no Flash Player working with Internet Explorer 7. When I tried to install the Flash Player from… Continue reading Installing Adobe Flash Player on Windows XP: Problems and solution