Moved to France

Not me but my mail server has moved to France or to be more correct is now hosted by the French hosting provider Gandi.net. According to GeoIP it is in Paris. I rent a small virtual machine from them to host my web and mail server. This makes me less dependent of my broad band connection and I skip the problem that my IP-address may change without notice.

At Gandi I have an Ubuntu 9.04 Linux machine with 256kb of memory and 8GB of disk. This is more than enough for me to hosting private mail and web. The mailsever is postfix and dovecot. I have my own CA-authority to handle secure connections from my mail clients.

Spring framework to Python

I just noticed that Springsource has released the Spring framework for Python. Interesting, especially since i like the Spring framework in Java and I prefer Python as language in a lot of cases. I must try it some day....

IPhone - not for me

The new IPhone looks nice. The only (?) problem is that, as far as I know, it cannot be fully used from an Linux/Ubuntu only environment. They assume you have a Mac or MS Windows machine.

I think I have to wait until some one starts selling Android phones in Sweden and not require purchase by installments for the phone.

The next big wave is Wave

Looking at Googles demo of Wave. It is impressing and my imagination fly and demonstrates solutions to some of my everyday problems like entering an e-mail conversation late, mixing mail and chat etc.

Wave will be the next or second to next big thing on the Net. I also looking forward to integration with my Ubuntu Gnome-desktop.

The future is cloudy

It is obvious most vendors are very focused on supporting the cloud. Ubuntu 9.04 focus on provide so you can have your "own" Amazon cloud. Canonical provides images for Amazon EC2. SpringSource makes it simpler to deploy spring applications on the cloud, both own Google AppEngine and Amazon. Vmware helps you to build your inhouse cloud.
Then we have all SaaS services like Google Apps, Salesforce, sugarcrm.

The big question is: How do we get single sign on on the cloud?

Enough about clouds for today.

One of the bigest news from SpringOne here in Amsterdam is that SpringSource development environment, STS, will be free as in no fees. Today it was mentioned in one conversation that a new minor release of STS will be released next thursday.

Now @ twitter too

I am now at twitter too. I will probably only twitt at special occasions like conferences.

SpringOne Europe 2009 day2

SpringSource is really pushing Groovy and Grails. Hope they start pushing Jython too.

Heard a nice talk just before lunch about transactions. Transactions engines are hard to write. Recomendation is to skip XA transactions.

Time for some The before the next session.