I was at the Knutepunkt larp conference in Norway, and there I met Verneri, a friend, and he whispered something more or less to the effect of: > “Make yourself useful with J2EE.” Hm, Enterprise computing. Where the jobs are. So, I asked what the first step was, and he answered the day after: > …
Author Archives: Olle Jonsson
Why do you do roleplaying games?
I was asked the hardest question in an email, a while ago, and then I had to answer, and now that I go back to it, looking at it, it sounds very much unlike me. Why is that? Why does your own speech of the past sound so alien a bit later? From: Juhana Pettersson …
Skype, friends
Just came back from a conference in Norway. Cold, friends. But very sunny and friendly. Met up with millions of good poeple again, and now we all need Skype, the free (as in beer) phone solution for us who have a computer and a headset. Headsets are cheap, and most laptops already have the microphone …
RubyForge: Snippet Library
RubyForge: Snippet Library is a trove of smart code. I got intrigued by “For more information about Registry manipulation look at win32/registry.rb“. Definitely.
Habitat: Virtual worlds
Habitat Yep, Habitat was the shit. And I only read about it back then, in Datormagazin and Soft, which were Swedish-language computer periodicals.
Theatre of the political kind
Yesterday evening me and my Luisa went to see our friends in Livingstone’s Kabinet, who were doing a theatre show called **Once Upon a Time: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Circus**. We got free tickets, as Luisa knows the director, the band and the owners of the theatre venue, and because she’s so lovely. The programme …
Slough (wetland)
This article tells the cool differences between bog, swamp and marsh. I now work half-time as a professional translator at a small Copenhagen firm.
Lucky funny stiff
whytheluckystiff, the Ruby evangelist, is making fun of an illustrated Bible, or at least its pictures are material for the fun. Digital age! Go download and photoshop your own craziness, now.
Edit PHP with SciTE
If you edit PHP using SciTE, you should get more productive with it! You can press F5 to run the current program and get output to a console. Most web developers do not associate the console with making web pages, but there are gains in your development speed. No webserver is involved when running the …
More stuff done with Ruby: Ta-da List
OK, here is web usability gods 37Signals‘ won fluff on their very usable web app for making todo lists online: To Do with Ta-da List: Simple sharable to-do lists. To-do list, todo list, task manager, task list, todo task, easy list, simple todo, free todo list manager. What blew me away is that they made …