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.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

[wp_ad_camp_1] 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 […]

I am currently helping Sony Ericsson as a community manager for their developer site. As part of this I’m blogging over at blogs.sonyericsson.com and just recently I wrote a short post on how to convert swf to jar for mobile phones. In case you didn’t know, Sony Ericsson has a framework embedded in most of […]

This article sums up all the new features in Firefox 3.5. An amazing list! HTML5, local data storage, vastly improved font support, location aware browsing and a bunch of new CSS-features are some of the highlight features. Adding it together sums up to a new web platform unlike anything we’ve seen before. The step forward […]

The blog CodeLathe offers some advice. This is true, and in line with the subtitle of this blog: Programming is purely a mental activity and has no relationship to any physical activity including typing. To become a better programmer, you will need to exercise and build up the part of the brain that deals with […]