I have for a year now been playing around with puppet on and off but have never done anything serious. Instead I have dabbled a bit here and there in small example projects so I am a real puppet beginner. Since it was getting time to re-install my mail server I figured it was an excellent thing to use as a real project.

Some short reflections from radars event Integrate 2 Innovate last week where I held a presentation about Continuous Delivery.

Adobe was “hacked” a few months ago, this is not really news. Everyone has been talking about this for a while now. But what has irked me is that I have not received any information from Adobe.

Until today…

I know I promised to continue the article about top CPU consumers. But I was cleaning out some papers and found some printed code from when I was a bit younger then I am now. So I decided to post pone that for another day (hopefully tomorrow or day after).

Anyways it is interesting how the world has changed, yet everything seems  stay the same.

Packt sent me an e-copy of “Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials” by Sten E. Vesterli asking me to review it. The book is a pretty good and probably rather unique book which covers the Open Source version of the **Oracle**   **ADF library**. This does not mean the book is only for “open source” ADF since everything you can do in this book you can also do with regular ADF instead it means it covers using Adf with non-standard technology such as GlassFish, Mysql and so on and so forth.

It was my birthday earlier this week (Monday the 27:th to be exact) and since my daughter Sofia had her first birthday the 21:th we had a joint celebration over the weekend. Mainly the gifts were targeted at my daughter since I am a bit to old really to get birthday gifts.

But I did get some things and among them one thing really stood out it was a poem written by what is loosely I guess a cousin to our children.

The best PACKT book ever?

Now don’t get excited!

This is not saying much; most PACKT books are so bad I want to gauge my eyes out with a fork!

And indeed this book is no exception it has many flaws and I honestly think is a bad book which suffers from lack of editing and peer review.

But is is *a very very smart book* and the author has managed to pull something rather difficult off in very nice way. I think with some editing this would have made a truly amazing book.

Spent three days this week at JFokus so I thought I’d share my views a bit. To be honest the conference was a bit on the lighter side and I think in hindsight I did a really botched job selecting sessions. I managed to pick both some very amazing sessions as well as a lot of introductions, sales pitches or things I already knew.

One of the most common perceptions of windows is that it is a PUI (PARC User interface) oriented operation system. In other words the mouse is required to do everything. This is in many places true but fortunately Microsoft has recently changed this and incorporated the keyboard more and more into what was previously a mouse only domain. With Vista and Windows 7 a whole range of new keyboard shortcuts emerged and slapping on some third-party tools on top of that and we get a full-fledged keyboard experience.

This is a tutorial for how to embed python correctly inside a multi threaded program. Python is a very neat language which is very easy to embed inside C++ thanks to the boost::python library. But there are some crucial parts which is missing from boost:python in regards to how to manage GIL and thread state which I introduce here. Since this is my first C++ tutorial I will include boost:thread as well as a quick hello world application as well.