I'm 30

Yesterday it was my real birthday and we had a family dinner together and later a good friend (that missed the party) came by with his wife and newborn girl. The party was held 4 days ago and 14 friends attended.. most of them are into computers! It started out with massive rain and later the weather cleared up so we could be outside most of the time. 

For a long time I have been worried about how this birthday would turn out.

Rant: danish media, weather, software complexity and my new project

It's late 02:30 in the middle of the night. Let's see if I can put together a meaningful post before I go to bed. With all the recent focus on Mexican Flu it seems like the danish media has gone back to the regular news about a drug/gang war going on in Copenhagen, famous people and sports. Topics that gets way too much attention. The press releases I have posted has mostly been relayed unmodified to a lot of places (macworld.com). It seems that the regular news media works the same way.. just copy paste with a few changes. In the tech news this copy/paste seems widespread.

Also the weather outside my door is too good to do anything serious and its not even summer yet. It's too bright, too warm and there is too many active people outside making noise. In order to do work my curtains is pulled down and I wear a headset to cancel out the noise. Despite this I throw myself into ever more complex projects and I'm started questioning the whole way I do programming to avoid this complexity, however that is also complex to grasp. And soon its my 30 year birthday, so it takes up some brain cycles thinking about this. So it's too hot and too complex at the moment.

I have begun working on a Norton Commander clone for Mac, to take a break from GraphicDesignerToolbox. I wanted to write a big post about it, but there isn't anything to tell about it yet. I don't even know if I will publish it. Screenshots.. Later.

Update: see the screenshots here

Back from Breakpoint 2009

It was an amazing trip to Breakpoint 2009 in germany. The last time I went to a such event was way back in 2000, it was huge and called "the party", it was before laptops was common, so you had to bring your CRT and heavy PC with you. These days everybody seems to have laptops. I traveled with the Danish bus with 40 people, mostly programmers, so there was a lot of things to talk about. All people I ran into at breakpoint was friendly and happy.

Anyways. I'm back in denmark now and doing some programming.

Going to Breakpoint 2009

Last year I couldn't afford it. This year my economy is even worse, however I am going to breakpoint this year. Around christmas time 2008 I worked on a demo system so I could bring something with me, but it's not usable yet.  I am traveling with the danish bus.. Really excited! 

GraphicDesignerToolbox 1.0 has arrived!

Today I have just released GraphicDesignerToolbox version 1.0!

I began working on this project in late 2004 and now all the pieces has finally been put together. It has been a long journey into the unknown.

Domain name transfer is completed

2 days ago, it finally got resolved. So now GraphicDesignerToolbox is up!

And the new icon is there too.

Remaining is some software update issues that I need to figure out.

Then a version 1 can be made ready.

Now just waiting

The domain transfer is still going on.. everything else is there. Today was my first day where I have been incredible bored, because I can't do anything until the domain starts working. Had I known about the huge delay with domain transfers then I had never initiated one, it has taken me +2 months and it still doesn't work! I am so frustrated. Why oh why!!?!

Being dependent on something unknown that you have no clue how long time it take.. is a very very bad thing that I try to avoid by addressing the big time consuming tasks first. However I was under the impression that this task would max take 48 hours for the DNS to propagate the changes. However just not in my case and now I stuck!

The web hosting company that I switched to has really nice reviews and supports all the features that I need. Now I feel bad about picking them. Domain transfers must be a special case. The web hosting company where I switched from couldn't figure it out neither. So go looking for a third web hosting company probably won't make the situation any better.

Argh, so annoying!