I recently bought a new Macbook Air 13" (which is übercool btw), and took my time to set up my development environment properly. Here's a recipe for setting up everything you need on a fresh OSX install, with some nice-to-have applications as well.

I've finally saved up the money for getting a new workstation at home, and worked out the small quirks with installing Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7 in a dual-boot setup on a SATA-3 SSD.

Google Wave is closing down, and leaves a big gap for some of us. A week after I've summarized some of my thoughts on what the best things about wave was, my opinion on what was sub-optimal, and a look forward on both Wave and it's alternatives.

I've remade the blog from scratch, again. This time I decided to not only give the front-end a overhaul, but also try out a NoSQL alternative to get some first-hand experience with it.

While implementing an awesome design, I needed to dynamically create a mirror effect on some thumbnails. Since I'm more or less dedicated to Paperclip, I decided to see if it could be done, without any monkeypatching. Here's what I came up with.

Being a new decade and all, I got some inspiration to do a little work on my blog again. This time I wanted to get up to speed with things, and make my markup "valid HTML5":http://html5.validator.nu/?doc=http://loo.no. I also polished up the design a bit, adding some icons and stuff.

Tonight I decided to try making NGINX handle my zip generating, to save the server some work, and the user of some frustration waiting for background jobs to finish. Here's what I came up with.

After playing around with wave in the developer preview, and giving it some thought, we tried the new beta version of Google Wave in a real-life scenario at the office today. Four of us were doing a sales effort (new experience), and found it to be a great tool for this purpose.

After some drooling over the recent macbooks that have been popping up all over the office during the summer, I finally got my own little shiny toy today. Thought I'd write a few words about my experience so far.

When applying a new design to one of our projects, we were in a need of a Paperclip style with rounded corners. Luckily for us we had Paperclip's :convert_options and strong ImageMagick-fu.