Distributed Agile

I know well what agile development is.  Nothing in the world gives better working environment for creating marvelous new systems, than a well formed XP team – your pair programming buddy will definitely tell you if you are on a wrong track. The atmosphere is great, the team is One. Match that with a rigoristic [...]

New Year starts with Scala

Slowly up to speed New Year is here, smoke calming down after a couple of nights of excessess with fireworks (and some other stuff too). I think tonight, the sky will be clear, and the air fresh again. After lazying around with my family during the Christmas Break, its time to actually work again. Preparing [...]

JAOO

I attended JAOO in Århus this year – what a fantastic experience, this conference has a special atmosphere. Denmark is such a small country, you keep meeting old colleauges, classmates, bosses – whatever. This years buzz was all about functional languages – we finally need to decide what to do with side effects. One possible [...]

Sending html mails with embedded pictures, that Thunderbird can understand

Users of Thunderbird have for long known, that html messages with embedded content look “strange” – you see a list of attachments part1.1, part1.2 – when you click on one of them, you see the html text message, or the pictures that should have been embedded. I have just discovered a way of sending html [...]