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Lean Startup Books
Speaking of books, I just set up a new blog focused on books about lean startup. In case you don’t know, a lean startup is an organization in search of a scalable business model. It is heavily influenced by the agile software movement. (I even wrote a manifesto for it! So far, I’ve only added [...]
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Programming books
There was a thread on Hacker News about influential books for programmers. I wrote a comment which I might as well rewrite for this blog because it’s an interesting subject. So… the answer to this question depends a lot on in what stage of programming maturity you are. The thing is, I remember the exact [...]
Startups in Sweden
Following up on my post about working as a developer in Sweden… there was a question on Quora about hot startups in Sweden and just recently a new reply was posted with a list of a few companies. The entire thread might be worth checking out if you want to work at a cool startup.
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Working as a programmer in Sweden
This blog ranks quite high on searches related to software in Sweden (gee, I wonder why ) so I sometimes get email from people who’s interested in moving to Sweden to work as a programmer. I just replied to such an email and thought that the answer might be interesting for others to read as [...]
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nginx and WordPress permalinks in subfolder
I’m playing around with nginx, a light weight http server. One of the first things I tried was to get PHP and WordPress up and running on an Ubuntu 10.4 machine. To do that I followed the following instructions. First I had to get PHP working so I followed these instructions for PHP-fpm. The next [...]
Gotcha with jsTree
If you get the javascript error: “$.vakata.context.cnt.delegate is not a function” when using jsTree and jQuery you need to upgrade your jQuery to the latest version. I had 1.3.2 and got the error, upgraded to 1.4.2 and it works fine.
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Picking a programming language based on personality
There are many ways to pick what programming language to use in a project or which one to learn and dedicate ones career to. Most programmers are naturally techie people who loves to argue for hours about the merits of certain syntax of a particular language or programming style. But I think that’s the wrong [...]
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How to build a web service in 8 hours
I was a big fan of Jaiku (here I am) and didn’t “get” Twitter until about a year ago when a friend showed me Tweetdeck. Aha! So that’s how you’re supposed to use it! Not through the web page twitter.com but by using a third party tool. I got so excited that I proclaimed Twitter [...]
Mobile Development SDKs compared: MoSync, PhoneGap and AppWhirl
Ever since I started my first consultancy business back in 1998, I’ve been thinking “next year will be the Year Of Mobile”. I’ve been wrong every year. Of course the sales of mobile phones have been great but in terms of mobile applications and the mobile web, things were more or less stuck in black [...]
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Drupal 7 Youtube videos as fields in content type