Archive for March, 2008

TeliaSonera and Cogent Communications are peering again

Monday, March 31st, 2008

The peering has been back since Friday according to Telia and idg.se (1, 2), and it really seems to be working fine now!  

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

Friday, March 28th, 2008

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 ...

My cape and sword

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

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 ...

SSL certificate anguish

Friday, March 21st, 2008

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.

Øresund Agile 2008 conference program available

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

As promised, the conference program for Øresund Agile 2008 is now available. Both the workshops and the talks seem really great! See you June 9–11!

Mandriva synchronizes Windows Mobile devices out of the box!

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

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 ...

No peering between TeliaSonera and Cogent Communications

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

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 ...

Unboxing the Softhouse Scrum Master Kit

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

I promised to show the Softhouse Scrum Master Kit and now I have selected a few images. Either browse the slideshow or read more below!

Microsoft earns money from iPhone 2.0

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

The developer.apple.com server seems to be overloaded at the moment, but the iPhone Developer Program will probably be acccessible in a day or two. Mac Rumors are of course covering the story. Apple will add lot of enterprisey things to iPhone 2.0, so that Microsoft will get a few bucks ...

Atom Publishing Protocol is the Web API standard

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Google has used Atom and the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) as basis for its Google Data APIs (GData) for a while, and now Microsoft announced their support for Atom and APP. See also the InfoQ article.