Don’t forget to relax - a tool helping you spare your body

I’ve been using Workrave for some years now. It reminds me to just ease up the tension in shoulders and arms every ten minutes. It’s a very cool and intelligent tool. For example, if I type or operate the mouse for ten minutes without atleast a 10 second break WorkRave will popup telling me to [...]


More of a mental note about performance testing

The company I work for develop mainly web applications. These applications are often served from a single server (or server cluster). Our biggest sites are world wide companies located in 100+ countries using a network topology that sometimes can be considered as having a good development potential.
This has made us fairly good on optimizing web [...]


Close to a hostile take-over

During the weekend my dagerot.com domain expired. I bought it 2002 and haven’t put any thoughts on it since then. Unfortunately the contact email for the domain was wrong (another expired domain) so I never got any reminders. Lucky me dagerot.com is not as attractive as ibm.com etc, so no one registered my domain during [...]


Eclipse as the only designer for Lotus Domino

I wasn’t aware of Maureen’s project until today when I read about it somewhere (sorry, I lost the source between all tabs). It’s very promising that we can use eclipse for all Lotus Domino development in the future. Have a looka at the screenshot.
Today I’m using DomiClipse for all java based development, it’s good but [...]


WebSphere User Group - Nordic region

There’s alot of websphere UG initatives going around in the world, United Kingdom and Boston for example. I thought I should have a look on the equalent in Sweden, should be named “WebSphere Swedish User Group” in my way of thinking. But I found no one. Instead I found a Nordic Websphere Group: WebSphere User [...]


tell http clearcaches

11TMR hinted about the console command tell http clearcaches. A command that could have saved us from thousands of tell http restart. Thanks!
The complete blogpost is about
using profile documents in a web application.

Tags: link, web


Just some funny math expressions

This is of no use other than a good laugh. I’m not sure if the actual blog post is funnier than the comment tree….immense world: MATHEMATICS GENIUS

Tags: fun


How to motivate geeks and manage developers

Once again has Andrei Kouvchinnikov over at dominounlimited found a very interesting article, this time from dominopower. It’s regarding something that many managers are struggeling with everyday, how to attract and motivate the core, supernatural borned geeks that does all that cool stuff in the R&D departements. For example:

Geeks are curious. Let them feed [...]


It’s better to read than to count

Would you react if someone said anything similar to this:
At a meeting with a client the PM says:
- I brought a finance geek because I’m very bad on business and economy. Gosh, I can’t even buy something in the supermarket. My husband is doing all that complex stuff.
At the restaurant:
- Oh, can’t you, Steven, read [...]


Testing your code often will not shape your body.

Update: Changed spelling on topic
Ferdy Cristant quotes Steve McConnell (the Code Complete author) in a blog about test driven development… Well… Sort of…. Atleast it’s a Programming quote of the day.
Anyway, the idea is that testing often improves software quality just as using the bathroom scale often improves weight control - NADA.
I tried this [...]