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What plane?

So, I’ve made my first Android application. That was a nice experience, especially after having hacked J2ME on Symbian for a short while. Only sad thing is that I haven’t got an Android phone, so I can only use my app in the emulator, which is boring as hell, since it’s a GPS based application. [...]

(The lack of a) JSON parser for J2ME

In a pet project I’m spending my nights working on (hopefully more about that in a later post), I found myself in need of a JSON parser, or deserializer, for J2ME/CLDC. A bit to my surprise, I found that such a thing was not easy to find, even with the whole of the internets at [...]

Nationaldagen på cykel

Efter misären med mitt inställda Göteborgsvarv har jag idag försökt kompensera åtminstone delvis genom att cykla Nationaldagsloppet, vilket jag nu tänkte fira genom att blogga för första gången på tusen år. Har inte deltagit i något cykellopp tidigare i mitt liv, så det blev även lite studiebesök i cykelvärlden. Några iakttagelser: Till skillnad från löpning [...]

Reality Bites

I’m a software developer. I like abstractions, I enjoy mentally putting things in little boxes, structuring my mental model of the world, or at least the model of the problem I’m currently struggling with. I don’t know if it’s a requirement, but if you’re a developer, it certainly helps to be border-lining to obsessive about [...]

DNS-323 filename encoding problems

This entry will be in english, since it’s more likely to be helpful to others googling for solutions to the same problem. A colleague of mine has used a D-Link DNS-323 as his RAID/backup solution at home. Apparently it’s been working great for ages, until he recently updated its firmware, which also caused all files [...]