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 been a major part of my professional life for the past 15 years.
It is going to be challenging, but it is also going to be an exciting journey and – without a doubt – a lot of fun.
My sister and her family are coming to Denmark next week. This is going to be the first time in almost two years we are going to see them, and it is going to be great!
The kids are really looking forward to playing with cousin Anton and personally I look forward to “a night out” with my brother-in-law. Of course, it is going to be nice to visit with my sister as well 🙂
They are only in the country for 10 days, and have a number of “obligations” in form of people they have to see, etc. I just hope they will be able to squeeze us in a few evenings/times.
I will be attending the one day Community Connection II on .NET best practices taking place in Malmø, Sweden on November 26.
Say “hello” if you happen to attend as well.
My good friend Mark is going to speak on DI in Malmø on 18 November. This is a SWENUG event. It is really great that the community is working across the pond so xNUG members from Denmark can go visit and vise versa.
As always I look forward to hearing Mark speak as he is one of the most accomplished presenters around.
I will be attending the Umbraco DK Festival in Copenhagen on November 19.
Pop over and say “hello” if you want to meet IRL. Could be fun!
Wednesday 8 December I will be attending a “go home meeting” featuring the Scrum expert Mike Cohn. Really looking forward to it, as Mr. Cohn is one of the big names in this racket.
From his own description:
One of the challenges of agile is coming to grips with the role of leaders and managers of self-organizing teams. Many go to the extreme of refusing to exert any influence on their teams at all. Others retain too much of a command-and-control style. Leading a self-organizing team can be a fine line.
In this session you will learn the proper ways to influence the path taken by a team to solving the problems given to it. You will learn how to become comfortable in this role. You’ll understand why influencing a self-organizing team is neither sneaky nor inappropriate but is necessary.
I recently wrote a blog post on beautiful mathematics. Mathematics can be beautiful or pleasing in many ways, one of them being if the proof is elegant.
Apparently one of the theorems for which the greatest number of proofs exists is the Pythagorean theorem.
The theorem states that
or
One of the more beautiful or elegant proofs is the one below.
Just read a nice blog post by @4nd3rs (in Danish) about his considerations about online backups; what to use and local vs. remote backup.
In the following I will try to describe my own setup. It has been a work in progress, but right now I feel it meets the requirements of myself and the family.
As any other modern family we have a number of computers running both Windows and OSX. When we moved into our house, I decided I did not want to run any cables anywhere or rather my wife decided we did not want to do this, so all devices are connected using wireless to the internet and the NAS.
The main storage and backup devices is a Drobo FS with 3 TB of storage. Data Robotics has their own concept of RAID, called BeyondRaid, and having three disks in the NAS enables it to exercise protection for single disk failure. The Mac is using the Drobo for backup via TimeMachine. Apart from shared documents the main content of the Drobo is pictures and music as the device also serves as storage for our Sonos music system. Whatever requirements the Windows machines have for backup, it is handled remotely.
For remote backup we recently moved from using JungleDisk and Amazon S3 to iDrive. For iDrive I have a Pro-account where the Drobo is back up to and each other family member has their own Basic account. The professional account is $5/month for one PC and 150GB. They have a family pack for 5 PCs and 500GB, which is $15/month; I guess we will move here when the need raises.
The main reason from moving away from Amazon was cost. It is dead cheap if you only have a small amount of data, but can get quite expensive if you have a lot, especially to extract the data if required.
We also use DropBox and each of us has an account. Personally I can’t remember when I used an USB stick last. It is just great for “moving” files back and forth, e.g. between work and home, and also for file sharing.
Just learned that the plug-in I use to format 
with the coefficients
Beautiful.
I finally did it. It has been too long, and right now, I am sore as hell.
I am talking about the distance of my run today.
Ever since “loosing” the front ligament in my left knee last December I have had a hard time running more than 10 km (the exception was the 3 x 5 km I did at the DFH relay back in August). Today I did 17.
I am tired and sore, but in the muscles and not the knee(s) which is really, really good. The time was horrible (around 4:45/km on average), but it was good to be out more than an hour.
I hope I can keep this up, with one long stretch, a shorter one and one or two days with intervals each week. 3 times very week would be nice, 4 times great, but going into the dark season I do not have much hope. Will try though 🙂
