Archive for April, 2009

Spotify Mixer DJ Software

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

This is not a new idea. A Swedish forum has a discussion thread Dj:a med Spotify that suggested the same thing months ago. With both despotify and libspotify available, someone with time and interest could make something like UltraMixer but with Spotify as the main source of music. A DJ with ...

SSL certificate anguish revisted

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

About one year and one month ago I wrote about SSL certificate anguish. Recently the certificate has expired so I wanted to create a new one. Unfortunately the apache2-ssl-certificate tool went missing and as my server runs Ubuntu 8.04.2 (Hardy) it's simply not there! I did this to create the ...

MySQL, the new Cinderella

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Oracle tried to buy MySQL. Sun bought MySQL. Oracle buys Sun. MySQL will become Cinderella with the ugly stepmother Oracle mistreating her.

Ubuntu 9.04 will be released on Thursday

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009



Q&A with Andy Hunt on Pragmatic Thinking & Learning

Monday, April 20th, 2009

An fun privilege for me as a Softhouse employee was the opportunity to make a short interview with Andy Hunt, of Pragmatic Programmer fame,  about his latest book Pragmatic Thinking & Learning and the Øresund Agile workshop with the same title.

Make Developers’ Lives Better

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

The Pragmatic Programmers has a spin-off called Pragmatic Life. It made me think about the books I have acquired that are more about life than about programming: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. W. Covey Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware, by Andy Hunt Getting Things Done, by ...

Tired of Lighttpd

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

The initial VPS package I ordered did not have very much RAM so I decided to run Lighttpd. Since then I have upgraded the VPS to a pretty luxurious package so the RAM limitation hardly applies anymore. I still haven't moved all my websites from the old server to the VPS ...

libspotify – the official Spotify library!

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Spotify opens its doors to developers and releases libspotify. Nice! The C API and examples look very clean. It's even possible to play songs through the API and I guess that's much more than anyone expected. Some might complain that the library is binary-only for Linux on IA-32 but I won't... If ...