Archive for the 'General' Category

Joining the Swedish eGovernment Delegation

A while ago I was offered a position with the Swedish eGovernment Delegation.
I will be working with IT standardisation issues and the next revision of guidelines for public websites.

Solving Project Euler Problems With Ioke

For those of you that have been following Ola Bini’s work on Ioke, the dynamic language for the JVM, I am happy to report that the current release 0.1.1 is usable enough to solve Project Euler problems with. I wanted to learn more about Ioke and the best way to learn a new language is to use it on your own. So, here is some example Ioke code for some of the simpler Project Euler problems.

Building your own Twitter client with Fluid and jQuery

Update: I have made some significant changes to Twoot and it now works well as my primary twitter client. Check out the TODO and README over at Github for more information on features etc.
Like many before me, I was searching (unsuccessfully) for a decent twitter client. There are many, but most seem to be ad [...]

Reducing distractions, increasing productivity

I spend a lot of time in front of my computer every day. I discovered that over time, I have added so much attention-stealing stuff to my main work environment that I feel constantly interrupted. You get growl notifications, tweets, new email sounds, new email icons, RSS feed notifications and IM alerts. Time to reduce the attention-stealing clutter!

Beta testing the Ballmer Tee

My son has the dubious pleasure of being the primary beta tester of T-shirt messages. This time it is the first draft of the model that will be called “Ballmer”. Turned out pretty OK…

Dear lazyweb, please pimp our balcony

Spring is in the air and it is time to start using the balcony. Currently it is in a state of decay and mainly used to store old furniture. I am out of ideas what to make of it. Can you help? Measurements below.

The day the Routers Died…

This pretty much speaks for itself. If I am not mistaken our own packet pro Patrik Fälström is visible in the audience at the end of the clip.