Two microsoft licenses approved as open source. It had to happen, open beats closed in the long run.

Been wanting to get this out of my system for a while and since I can’t sleep I might as well do something productive. During my time in iola I’ve begun writing code in C#. I’ve written quite a lot of C++ in the past and still does, so it was quite interesting for me to see what the next iteration of C would be like when I started out with this. This next section is written in a very practical sense, since at the end of the day, that is really what matters. ...

Had some time tonight to do some winter cleaning of my blog. I found a new theme that is a little lighter (Thanks Bob :)) And finally found a plugin called Google Code Prettify which allows one to easily display code inside blogs (Something that is utterly pain to do in vanilla Wordpress). I also added a related blog posts at the buttom of each blog entry so that it’s easier to find other blogs with similar content. Enjoy :)

As mentioned earlier, lisp is incredible at abstracting away small everyday stuff you write over and over. A good example is this way one has to define a local variable in order to make variables sucked into a delegates from the surroundings static in C#. As mentioned briefly in this blog post, one needs to change the loop to read like the following code for it to print 0 to 9 instead of 10 times 9: ...

Lately I’ve been reading the book Practical Common Lisp. My earlier experience with lisp was at the university where I briefly touched lisp in the form of the Scheme dialect. After having read Paul Grahams excellent Hackers and Painters twice, I thought it would probably be a good idea to see if lisp lived up to the hype. After seeing Practical Common Lisp being recommended by bamboo of boo fame and seeing this google tech talk I was convinced that the book was the best way to see all the wonderful stuff lisp has to offer. ...

3 words baby, gimme one now

FOWA is now over and it has been a great conference. On the way back in the plane I got to thinking that almost all the new web applications work a lot like open source projects. In the way that they are first and foremost open, encourage external contributions (using API´s), encourages the users to drive the development of new functionality, and are actively encouraging feedback from their users in an open way where users can help other users solve problems.

Day 2 is great, won a red?! 8 gig ipod. Great and funny talks about startups and ducks among other thing so far… :-)

Day one was really great. A lot of awesome talks. The most interesting guy was perhaps Umair Haque talking about edgeeconomy. I havn’t heard the economic perspectives of open distributed production, really interesting. Steve Souder showed a very nice tool called Yslow, that can really help you find speed bottlenecks in your web apps. Anyway next up is Paul Graham so I better stop here :-)

I’ll be attending the Future of Web Applications next week. The conference seems to have quite a few interesting talks, I’m particularly looking forward to hear Paul Graham talk since I enjoy his writings immensely.