I’ve played guitar since I was around 16 years old. When I first started out I didn’t really do any courses or follow any learning paths, I just tried to play songs I liked, while having fun. I was fortunate enough to join a band, and can safely say that it was great for my skills. Not only did I learn to play fairly well, I also played well with others and on stage. Great times! ...
So this post should really have been posted almost a year ago. Perhaps I should have chosen a different title. Oh well, I planned to write this post at the time, so let us assume I did, just with more impressions than I had back then. So to get to the point; I bought a Mac Mini! I have always used Windows for everything, but I have always been curious about OS X and standardizing on Apple products at home. Both my SO and me use iPhone, we have an iPad and so on, so finally I thought it was about time I tried a Mac as well. However, seeing as the prices are what they are, I did not want to go all in with an iMac just yet, so I decided to go for a Mac Mini. I figured that it could do what I would like from a Mac anyway, and if I like it, I could upgrade later. ...
We’re about to leave 2014 behind, and enter what will be, at least for me, an exciting year. Through the first month of the year I will participate in a course on coursera regarding cryptography. This is a free, online course, from Stanford University, lead by Dan Boneh. Cryptography is something I have picked up an interest in lately, alongside with computer security, so it will be interesting to see if I can get some better knowledge around this subject. As far as I can tell it will be interesting to participate in this course, as it will be lectures and assignments, which means I get to test my understanding of the subjects. ...
So recently I been working on finishing my first Windows store app. This app (which I will tell more about when it? been released) needs connection to the local network. This meant that this was a permission I would need to get from the user. Thinking that since I did not store any data from the user, it would not need any privacy policy. This turned out to be wrong, and as I submitted the app, it only took a few hours before the feedback was “rejected”. The notes I got was the following: ...
A few weeks ago I participated in a course on Agile development, lead by Venkat Subramaniam. The course was a one day, two-part course, where the first part was an introduction to agile development with benefits of agile development, compared to other development methods. The second part was aiming to show technical practices to sustain agile development. A few of the things I thought of as key points were frequent releases, early feedback, TDD and automated testing. As the course went on I caught myself thinking that these were practices I have thought of as reasonable earlier, without actually using them. I will not go into details regarding the techniques we saw, as I believe that others can explain them better than me. ...