Archive for April, 2009
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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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