Archive for June, 2008

My new mail server got listed in Spamhaus XBL

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

The network owner where I have my current server is not very good at maintaining proper DNS and reverse-DNS records (!), and I consider it to be really important for mail servers to have those properly configured. In order to workaround this issue I'm now renting a Virtual Private Server ...

Highway to Dell, part six

Friday, June 20th, 2008

(Continued from Highway to Dell, part five.) Yesterday I noticed a problem with ssh on the Dell Inspiron 1525: I could ssh in any direction between the laptop and other computers on the same wireless network, but not to a computer outside of the wireless network. The issue was already reported ...

Øresund Agile 2008 Conference Day

Monday, June 16th, 2008

(Continued from Accelerated Agile on Øresund Agile 2008.) After two days of workshops, Wednesday was the conference day. Two sessions specifically addressed distributed Scrum: having teams, or part of teams, in different geographic locations. The presentation by Scrum co-creator Jeff Sutherland was great but also a bit utopian while the other, ...

Accelerated Agile on Øresund Agile 2008

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

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 ...

Agile Architecture on Øresund Agile 2008

Monday, June 9th, 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, ...