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Exim with a whitelist of recipients 29 Jun 2012 | 09:30 pm
At IOLA, we have a couple of servers that we use for a lot of different things - just not running live code. Now, with a standard install of Linux with something like monit installed to respawn dead ...
Arab spring 10 May 2012 | 10:10 am
National radio in Denmark has been broadcasting several documentaries on the recent change of regimes in the arabic countries. Last week it was about Yemen with The Reluctant Revolutionary. One smoot...
Short-term thinking 29 Mar 2012 | 04:12 am
Old post, but hilarious.
When automated tests make sense, and when they don't 19 Mar 2012 | 01:21 pm
Some years ago, I stumbled upon an article about automated testing, "When should a test be automated?" (I'm linking to Google since my previous link is now broken). I found it quite interesting becaus...
When two becomes three 6 Oct 2011 | 11:26 am
The evening before, when Janne and I were going to bed, at around 11, she complained about a pain in the stomach and got up to take a bath. I was mildly suspicious, but the last couple of weeks she'd ...
Cells and biology 31 Jul 2011 | 01:06 pm
I recently borrowed a book from my sister who has a Master's in biology, Zoology by Dorit, Walker and Barnes, about 900 pages, intended audience is college biology students I believe. I've been readin...
3D in the browser 18 Jun 2011 | 03:11 am
We've recently done a project where we needed to do 3D visualizations in the browser. It's not incredibly fancy, mostly showing walls and floors of rooms and some stuff in them. Before we started cod...
Organizational patterns 30 May 2011 | 10:40 pm
We went to a seminar not too long ago in a local interest group on agile software development. One of the speakers was Jim Coplien. He's a good at it, speaking emphatically on what to do and not to do...
GNOME 3 is nice 9 Apr 2011 | 09:36 am
So GNOME 3 is out and I decided to give it a try with the Fedora live CD (or should I say USB stick). I must say I'm impressed. Overall it's really clean and just works. The new application chooser is...
A take on good, reusable Java design 30 Mar 2011 | 08:19 am
This is just too amusing not to pass on.
