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Last Wednesday I gave an internal seminar for a well-known and large Swedish company. The topic was on software development and I had decided to talk about my reflections/observation of software project failures. The major theme of the speech was the paradox of at one hand we have seen a tremendous improvements of languages, tools and methodologies over the last quarter of a century , but on the other hand…

Today I gave two seminars (2 hours each) in Stockholm. The first, before lunch, was about Cloud Computing and the second, after lunch, was an gentle introduction to Groovy and Grails. Here a the slides PDF (in Swedish) Vad är Cloud Computing? Vad är Groovy och Grails? I will repeat these seminars in Gothenburg on Thursday. Tomorrow (Wednesday) I will give a company internal seminar regarding trends in software development….

As a response to my crashed firewall, I decided to retire my hobby mail server running Postfix/Dovecot on Ubuntu Server. Instead I have decided to join the masses and go for a hosted exchange service instead. For a die-hard Linux freak as yours truly, this sucks. However, on the flip side, I gain better reliability and set of services, such as beside of synching mail to my Android HTC Hero…