Category Archives: Miscellaneous

On Remote Work

Back in February, Chris Herd (@chris_herd), CEO and Founder of FirstbaseHQ.com wrote a tweet on remote work. It turned out to be a fairly along thread sharing the findings from conversations with 2.000+ companies. I have summarized it below as … Continue reading

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Guide to staying safe during a hacker conference

Some weeks back Microsoft held its bi-annual technical conference. This time, however, the event was moved from Seattle to Las Vegas and it happened to run right into when hackers were coming to Vegas for DefCon, the famed hacker convention … Continue reading

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Pull the Rabbit out of the Machine

Today I got RabbitMQ In Action from Manning in the mail. As I have prevous written about, I did a 2nd review on the book. I am, however, looking forward to reading the complete book and play around with the … Continue reading

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Review of books: SOA Patterns by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz

I have previously written a small blog post about reading SOA Patterns by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz by Manning. That time is was what was called a 2/3 review, hence a peer review of the material currently present. A couple of weeks … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas

Dear Friends and Family, The best wishes for the holiday season and the new year.

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Review of books: SOA patterns and PowerShell/WMI

I have recently read two manuscripts from Manning: SOA patterns by Rotem et all and PowerShell and WMI by Siddaway. None of them are published yet, but both are available through Mannings MEA program. Like I have done previously I … Continue reading

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Review of book: Machine Learning in Action

My last review for Manning Publications Co. can’t have been all bad, because they asked me to do another one. The book this time is Machine Learning in Action by Peter Harrington and currently available in MEAP. The review is … Continue reading

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Review of book: RabbitMQ in Action

I was asked to do the 2nd review on the book RabbitMQ in Action by Videla & Williams (Manning Publications Co.). Link here for those interested. The book is currently available in MEAP. RabbitMQ is an efficient, highly scalable, and … Continue reading

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How difficult can it be?

I really enjoy logical and mathematical problems, so when I came across the “world’s hardest easy geometry problem” I was quite excited. I mean, how difficult can it be, right? 180 degree in a triangle and you are set. I … Continue reading

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Joining Microsoft

Some great news on the job front. December 1st I’ll start as Senior Consultant at Microsoft. I’m really thrilled about having been given this opportunity to work for the company, that more or less has made the technologies which have … Continue reading

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