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AngularJS and IE8, directive that compiles HTML 28 May 2013 | 07:45 pm
I have a directive that loads an article in HTML from a CMS via a REST API and a template file what should be compiled together with the article. element.html(templateLoaded.data); scope.document = th...
WordPress, Drupal or Roll Your Own? 18 May 2013 | 10:38 pm
When should you use existing CMSs as WordPress or Drupal and when should you build one yourself? Of course, building a CMS from scratch would be insane but with emerging technologies and standards suc...
Subversion (svn) error: “containing working copy admin area is missing” 13 Feb 2013 | 08:16 pm
Accidentally tried to add a folder to an svn repository with files that were already added to another svn repo. This caused some confusion for subversion and I got the error message: containing workin...
John Carmack on Software Engineering 27 Aug 2012 | 02:17 pm
A very good read here from game programming legend John Carmack. In reality in computer science, just about the only thing that’s really science is when you’re talking about algorithms. And opti...
Drupal 7 Youtube videos as fields in content type 7 Jul 2011 | 08:45 am
I have been doing quite a lot of work with Drupal 7 the last couple of months. It has its ups and downs but one thing that it always tries to do is to prevent you from having to write your own code to...
Lean Startup Books 1 Jun 2011 | 09:29 pm
Speaking of books, I just set up a new blog focused on books about lean startup. In case you don’t know, a lean startup is an organization in search of a scalable business model. It is heavily influe...
Programming books 2 Mar 2011 | 09:14 am
There was a thread on Hacker News about influential books for programmers. I wrote a comment which I might as well rewrite for this blog because it’s an interesting subject. So… the answer to this qu...
Startups in Sweden 22 Feb 2011 | 09:33 am
Following up on my post about working as a developer in Sweden… there was a question on Quora about hot startups in Sweden and just recently a new reply was posted with a list of a few companies. The ...
Working as a programmer in Sweden 10 Jan 2011 | 12:07 am
This blog ranks quite high on searches related to software in Sweden (gee, I wonder why ) so I sometimes get email from people who’s interested in moving to Sweden to work as a programmer. I just rep...
nginx and WordPress permalinks in subfolder 27 Sep 2010 | 09:17 pm
I’m playing around with nginx, a light weight http server. One of the first things I tried was to get PHP and WordPress up and running on an Ubuntu 10.4 machine. To do that I followed the following in...
