We visited London (again) in May. A brief visit with a lot of walking in the City and a visit to Greenwich. Here are a few photos from the trip.
Archive for 2009
London & Greenwich
Jun 2
Better but Broken
May 10
Working with application development – either on the web, on the desktop or any other place – is often quite interesting. When making new releases features are added, changed – or in rare cases removed. As a developer – or “software product manager” – it must be an interesting challenge to keep up with the [...]
I’m still enjoying the fresh new Ubunutu 9.04, and one of the nice new features is a firewall – which Canonical calls “Uncomplicated Firewall”. I’m usually not hooked on firewalls, but just for the fun of it I enabled the firewall on my laptop and it seems to work quite well. The firewall doesn’t seem [...]
Ctrix and Ubuntu 9.04
May 4
I’ve recently wiped the hard drive of my laptop and upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04. The Linux desktop is a perfect place to do development and surf the net, but the corporate network is a Windows world and to access mail and other enterprise applications we use Citrix servers. Getting Citrix running on the new Ubuntu [...]
Let’s call it lift off… This site has been online in some form or another for 10+ years. During that time I’ve been runing a static HTML site (eventually with a few CGI’s), later on Movable Type a few years and most recently an odd mixture of WordPress, Gallery2 and custom code. During the past [...]
Dubai, U.A.E.
Apr 2
We recently visited Dubai, U.A.E.. [googlemap lat="25.08660944454393" lng="55.140531063079834" width="600px" height="300px" zoom="9" type="G_NORMAL_MAP"]Dubai[/googlemap] Here are a few photos from the week down there.
Most developers (and certainly professional shops) working with software- or webdevelopment has understood the ideas behind sourcecode version management – no matter if they choose to use cvs, subversion, git or any of the other fine systems available. How developers use these systems, can provide an easy insight into who is the dummy, the average [...]