I've bought the ultimate laptop
After a lot of angst I've finally bought myself the second laptop of my life. The first was a Mac PowerBook 145b which I used an abused for several years, biking though Stockholm with the laptop...
View ArticleMy Ajax DWR course is now online, with source
I've uploaded S5 slides, demo-examples online, and all sources using an Apache 2.0 license. I can especially recommend a look at the example using server push (Comet), Reverse Ajax and Scriptaculous...
View ArticleMerging JavaDoc and wikis
I have for the last few years been in projects where much of the documentation was written in the form of wikis. I rather like writing documentation, but many others don't. Oddly enough, when a wiki...
View ArticleJava for C++ programmers, free course material
A year ago I held a one day seminar about Java for a bunch of C++ programmers. Since then my S5 slites have been sleeping on my hard drive. So I polished them a little, updated the material somewhat...
View ArticleJava 7 should be forked, right now
I've been sceptic to the whole open sourcing of Java, from day one. I've been worried about Microsoft and forks. The last few months I've started to feel more comfortable with the whole thing. Perhaps...
View ArticleBeryl, WOW!
Just managed to get Beryl up and running om my LG LW25 laptop with an Intel Mobile 945GM Express graphics chipset running Kubuntu 7.04. I was sceptical but my jaw dropped lower and lower while...
View ArticleGiving up on Kubuntu
I first tried out Linux sometime during the winter 1998-1999. I was pretty excited, but never really tried to migrate. It was not until I moved to the US that I tried full migration. First with a nice...
View Article5 years of blogging
Today, five years ago, I started blogging. Over the years I've mostly written about Java, but two years ago my main interest became Ajax. I've also mainly switched from English to Swedish. All in all...
View ArticleIt is time to start encrypting emails
What can I say? I am dismayed and utterly embarrassed by the new Swedish law that will unleash previously unheard of snooping of internet traffic crossing our borders. The only decent way to now...
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