I’ve embarked upon my mission to upgrade my server installation. It’s probably going to take the better part of this week but I hope to be done by this weekend when my parents-in-law are coming to stay with us. Here’s my todo-list as of now. 1. Find …

Tuesday the 25th of September 2012 marks my 30th birthday. Even though I might not be fresh meat anymore, I haven’t forgotten about my blog. I’ve just been busy (raise your hand if you’ve heard that one before). * I’ve been planning an article abou…

I’ve finally received my new laptop. It’s not the one I initially wanted (the Lenovo X230) since that on costs a small fortune in the configuration I wanted. Well at least it costs a bit too much here in Sweden with all the taxes and what not. Anyway, I settled for an Asus Zenbook Prime (UX31A) and had money left to take the family on vacation instead. My old laptop (crapdev) has served me well. I didn’t even pay for it since I just took it home with me when I received it’s replacement at work. Yes, I’ve been using my old work laptop as a private workstation for the last 2-3 years and it’s starting to show. I named my new toy "jackrabbit" as a nod to the restaurant from Pulp Fiction (Jackrabbit Slim’s). With the UX31A measuring only 18 mm at its thickest, and to be fair, 4 mm of thos…

I’m leaving for Gothenburg in a couple of hours for some all-weekend-hacking-codapalooza-marathon-event-thingy (A.W.H.C.M.E.T?). It’s going to be awesome! Also, I’ll get to enjoy the company of some great friends and some great minds (not at all mutua…

Form, function and flexibility. I find that these three concepts are not always easy to rank. Sometimes I feel that form trumps functionality, sometimes I don’t. When it comes to window managers however, function is king! I have to admit, I’ve been …

Sometimes you need more than your operating system gives you. That’s when a text editor comes in handy. ` Copying large files to my NAS becomes so much more fun when I actually KNOW that it’s doing what it should. Progress bars FTW! UPDATE: Now it’…

A while back I read a blog post somewhere about how the LESS parser/compiler had been remade in Javascript. "Well awesome", I thought to myself as I had been wanting some more flexibility in CSS but had been to stubborn/proud to install the SASS compiler since it’s written in Ruby. Needles to say, I wanted to incorporate it in my blog as soon as possible but I’ve not had the time to actually do it until now. LESS (like SASS) is a CSS derived language that adds a whole lot of long needed features to CSS to ease maintenance of large style sheets. It compiles into regular CSS markup either in realtime (through their nifty Javascript implementation in the browser) or, as in my case, as a bootstrapping task when I start my blog. For now, it’s tacked on in a kind of ugly way in my BundleCon…