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		<title>Boom, it lives!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>There we go, the new site is live. Everything old remains right here where we left it, so any and all old links keep working, but going right to bjoreman.com will load up the shiny new goodness where everything will happen from now on.</p>
<p>The new site also has its own RSS feed, so updating readers to look at rss.rss instead of newest is recommended.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The world keeps on turning, one small notch at a time.</p>
<p>As one of those notches, I just disabled comments and guestbook posts here. I am going to move over to my own home-baked static site thingy and so am trying to decide how best to move this incarnation out of the way. Once I've set my mind about that, the new site is likely to just pop up here.</p>
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		<title>Road code</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>I am about to go on a trip, and I am hitting peak "debating whether to bring laptop to be able to satisfy possible sudden coding urges". My tablet will come, but I can not code most of the things I might like on it in any effective manner.</p>

<p>To me, this is a point arguing both for creative on-tablet development tools, and against becoming dependent on certain tools to develop.</p>

<p>I love the thought of being able to go on coding anything on my iPad, but not for a second would I want it to work as if I was in front of a traditional PC. I want to be able to work on the same things, but not in the same way.</p>

<p>One way this can be approached is to scale back on tools and move toward basics. The closer you get to being alone with text, the more repeatable the experience becomes on a tablet. I can write anywhere on anything, and I love doing so. It also feels like a very clean experience: just my text and I with only a thin sheet of glass between us.</p>

<p>On the other hand, this is 2012. Why is there so much typing and text involved in coding?</p>

<p>Relating to platform independence, I think this is me wanting to be a platform independent coder. I want to be able to sit down and be creative on any system, not get stuck yearning for or setting up my favorite IDE in just the right way. My ideas and I can go anywhere, and that is so much more important than the exact tools I use to process ideas.</p>
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		<title>15/10 2012</title>
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		<title>Lidingöloppet 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>En härlig bana med ett för stort lopp på. Det känns som en bra sammanfattning av Lidingöloppet av 2012 års modell.</p>

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<p>En rolig sak med att delta i ett så stort lopp är att det blir ganska svårt att komma helt fel. Redan på den första bussen siktade jag andra i löparkläder, så sedan var det bara att följa med strömmen mot Ropsten och gratisbussarna till Lidingövallen. På tunnelbanestationen blev det någon kvarts väntan  innan jag fick plats på en buss. Det känns ju alltid lite osäkert att stå still i en kö, men på det hela taget rullade det ändå smidigt. Jag kom till Lidingövallen med gott om tid att hämta nummerlapp, lämna in väskor och promenera till starten. Alla momenten var så smidiga man kunde hoppas på ett såpass stort och etablerat lopp, men det var onekligen ganska många andra som också var på väg till starten. Det var snarare fråga en orm av människor än en väg som folk promenerade längs.</p>

<p>Inför starten var det inte heller några konstigheter, bara tydliga instruktioner och bekväma vagnar att lämna sina överdragskläder i.</p>

<p>Men när starten väl gick blev det fullt med folk igen. Riktigt fullt. Det var inget knuffande, vassa armbågar eller så, men alla sprang där det verkade finnas mest plats för stunden. När det går upp och ner och underlaget är något annat än asfalt vill man gärna kunna se marken åtminstone några steg framför sig, men det tog ett bra tag innan det började kännas som att det fanns hyfsat med and- och benrum. Drygt åtta kilometer för att vara mer exakt.</p>

<p>Dessutom var alla oväntat rädda för de första lerpölarna och backarna, vilket ledde till märkliga inbromsningar ett par gånger.</p>

<p>Trängelproblemen märktes tydligt för mig, men jag verkar ändå ha haft en rätt liten del av dem. Eftersom jag startade i tredje startgruppen var jag ganska tidig till start och tidigt i mål, och vad jag hört från andra var alla köer - speciellt de till bussarna både till och från loppet - klart mycket längre och långsammare en stund senare.</p>

<h2>Men själva loppet då?</h2>

<p>Jotack, det gick fint. Ett steg i taget, backe upp och ner och pauser för sportdryck var femte kilometer.</p>

<p>Jag hade läst innan att det är bra att kunna vila i nedförsbackarna på Lidingö, och det kändes verkligen som om det stämde. Jag vet inte om det är perfekt på något sätt, men det känns som om jag hittat ett sätt att släppa på i backar som fungerar för mig och inte helt stöter sönder benen. Särskilt efter första milen passerade jag ofta folk i nerförsbackarna.</p>

<p>Loppets bästa musikupplevelse var för mig strax innan tvåmilastrecket när en musikanläggning i någons trädgård pumpade ut Daft punks Around the world. Där blev det nästan lite löpning i takt med musiken och en extra energikick.</p>

<p>Banan var och är riktigt fin. Backig också, men det var inget som den med lite vana av Änggårdsbergen och slingan runt Stora delsjön blev chockad av. Abborrbacken fnyser man verkligen inte bort, speciellt inte när man sprungit 25 kilometer eller så innan, men lite överdramatiserad kändes den allt. Den hade gospelkör och enorm "Välkommen till Abborrbacken"-skylt vid sin fot, sin egen peppande speakerstation nära krönet och en förmodligen väldigt välplacerad sjukvårdsstation nära toppen. Det var kanske ingen stor tidsvinst, men det var väldigt skönt för psyket att faktiskt springa hela vägen upp och förbi skylten som markerade backens krön. Jag tror inte alls att jag känt mig lika nöjd med loppet om jag börjat gå, det är liksom alltid en del av mitt tänkande att jag ska klara att springa hela vägen. Hur fort det går spelar mindre roll, men jag vill känna att jag känner mig själv och kan disponera mina krafter så att jag klarar att hålla en viss nivå hela vägen. Detta bidrog nog också lite till min defensiva hållning mot slutet …</p>

<p>Efter Abborrbacken levde jag i viss skräck för Karins backe, som flera nämnt som en obehaglig överraskning när man tror att det värsta är över. Såhär i efterhand tror jag att jag vet vilken backe det var, men den lämnade inga som helst avtryck i orken eller sinnet. Det var bara hyfsat flyt hela vägen in i mål, med en liten spurt över leråkern som var upploppet.</p>

<h2>Minnesmärken</h2>

<p>Jag brukar få några blåsor och skavsår när jag springer långt. Lidingöloppet var inget undantag, men det var klart mindre av den varan än väntat. Jag hade - tvärt emot min natur - faktiskt kommit ihåg att sätta skavsårsplåster på insidan av högerfoten så där fanns inga som helst problem. Knölarna precis bakom stortån var däremot sönderskavda som vanligt, men efter en tvätt visade det sig att båda såren var betryggande små och grunda. Tillsammans med en inte speciellt imponerande blåsa under höger stortå var de alla ärr loppet lämnade efter sig. Det känns som om jag och mina Fivefingers KSO börjar hitta varandra.</p>

<h2>Blir det fler Lidingölopp?</h2>

<p>Jag skulle inte bli förvånad och är såklart sugen på att se vad erfarenheten skulle göra för nästa runda. Mot det står besväret att resa och trängas med så många andra, om loppet inte förändrar starten på något smart sätt så får man nog starta ännu lite längre fram i framtiden för att slippa störas alltför mycket i början. (Det är väl lite en nackdel med stora lopp där man ändå känner att man kan eller vill ha en bra tid - alla sådana detaljer blir plötsligt så mycket mer störande än om man kommer in i "springa för att njuta, må bra och ha kul"-tänket.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>About shit Apple fanatics say</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>There was a link to Youtube among my tweets this morning, commented as "So true and so funny". The video was titled "Shit Apple fanatics say" and was a very well produced and acted collection of often very recognizable lines, expressions and figures of speech. So indeed, good points on the "true" part. But it left me with a very strange feeling. It was trying to be funny, but it got there so rarely and often tried so hard that it just left me feeling awkward. Yes, that is a thing I have heard many people say. Yes, that is a thing I have said myself. The reasons why it is said pop up in my mind.</p>

<p>And then … nothing.</p>

<p>No twist, no funny angle, not even a serious attempt to poke holes in arguments. It was as if the writer collected things and just hoped they would be funny in themselves without trying to understand them. Or, in the worst cases, piled on the strangeness (hello long-winded right-click discussion). The best things were short and sweet and worked, but the rest made me wonder if those were just pure luck.</p>

<p>"Of course you say that", I hear you say, "you are one of the fanatics yourself." Well spotted. I smiled in recognition at a few details, but should a well done piece not have made me smile or laugh at my own perceptions much more often? Smart, witty criticism is a great thing, but much of this felt like it rested on the assumption of there being two firm camps - Us and Them - and anything They say automatically being funny. What do you call that, some kind of alienation humour?</p>

<p>To sum up: it left me cold. Cold about the writer, cold about the person behind the tweet, and a little sad about the wasted energy and care. So much potential, if only the script had got some more polish.</p>
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		<title>MVVM who?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Rain and wind are hitting the windows. The air is cooling, the skies are darkening. It has been a good if tired day and the end of another good week is rolling in.</p>

<p>A week of bug hunting, barefoot-ish running and desks locked in standing position.</p>

<h2>Knocked out</h2>

<p>The week started in seriously geeky fashion, with an evening of pizza, cola and yet another rediscovery of the joys of Javascript. I attended the first meeting of the kind-of-a-mouthful-named Sweden Pluralsight study group and began learning about MVVM and the Knockout Javascript framework. Gothenburg is becoming quite full of Meetup-organized groups of interest to developers, and I generally try to attend all which feel even vaugely of interest. You should too if similar things are going on near you, the widened views and new mixes of people can do wonders to your thoughts.</p>

<p>In any case, the rough order of the evening was food, video-based course material in nice bite-sized chunks and plenty of time to discuss and code. Oh, and a surprise opening by Aaron Skonnard, the CEO of Pluralsight who is seriously into encouraging the community around the company and material. In any case, we were off to a good start.</p>

<p>Several people have commented that they would have liked more structure in the form of clearer assignments and how to go about the tasks. To my always rather unstructured and slightly Monday-tired mind, however, the free form felt just perfect. Perhaps I would have gained different things from being more strictly placed in a group, but as it was I immediately got sucked into playing with code during practical sections, and the amount of time given felt just right as well. The material introduced Jsfiddle and talked a bit about how to develop web-based things in Visual Studio, but nothing assumed or required you to use either. For my part I switched between Jsfiddle and the classic web-browser-plus-text-editor and found that to work just as well.</p>

<p>I have done quite a bit of web development professionally, but most of it was a few years back now. That means it is always a great kick to dip my toes in situations like this, finding the familiar structures in place along with new exciting frameworks to mess with.</p>

<p>To wrap up, this was just the beginning of the beginning, and a really good one. I will definitely be back for more, computer in hand and hungry for more knowledge. Huge thanks to Iris Classon for organizing, cooking (well …) and generally setting and keeping things in motion!</p>
<p>Side note: I have read up a bit, and I am still not clear at all on why we need the MVVM label to put on what very much seems to be the MVC pattern. Is it a case of not feeling comfortable enough with the term to feel you can make it your own? Each to their own.</p>
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		<title>On the casting of pods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>Yes, I have joined the trend, got on the bandwagon et cetera: I now participate in a podcast and have great fun while at it. Kodsnack is the name of the show, the first episode is out and planning of the second is well underway. The show is in Swedish and the subject is coding, development geekery and whatever tangents we may end up on starting from that. We are in this case myself and coding gentlemen Kristoffer Grönlund and Tobias Hieta.</p>

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		<title>18/8 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>When, I wonder in my idle way, was the last period I was this unsocial online?</p>
<p>Perhaps I never was, perhaps this is just a feeling.</p>
<p>But I do not remember when I last had Messages open for any meaningful time off work. I write the odd tweet, post on Instagram and book some face, but that is about it.</p>
<p>I am not actively social. And it actually feels pretty good. I disconnect when I leave work and feel no pressing need to change that.</p>
<p>I have no nagging worry that I should be <b>available</b> online in case someone needs to reach me. No serious worry about tweets (although I check those way more often than needed). In fact, I still feel I could use being offline even more, perhaps balanced by being a little bit more socially active when I am online. Write a bit more.</p>
<p>So, um … I feel like I could cut down on my aimless consumption and produce a bit more myself?</p>
<p class="login">Right, business as usual.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I am writing a lot in other ways. Code every day is pretty much a reality now, I think. Most of the time. At least as much as running every other day is.</p>
<p>And today I took another step on the path of minimalist running. More on that later.</p>
<p>Retina, retina and fonts. I want.</p>
<p>I should also do something fun (like writing it up) with that strange Marco Arment dream I had.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>24/7 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<p>I have started playing a few games again. I am virtually rediscovering the joy of mastering game mechanics. And, I think, in a more relaxed way than I used to when I was a heavier player.</p>

<p>It does not, of course, hurt that what I am playing are two wonderful casual games - Tiny wings and Whale trail.</p>

<p>Possibly the safest bets there are for pure, quick and casual fun.</p>

<p>I feel quite torn by Whale trail's in-app purchases (not that I need or want them to enjoy the game), and I was almost shocked when Tiny wings threw up a standard "Like me? Rate me please!"-dialog. </p>

<p>Otherwise, it is all blissful flying.</p>

<p>After a week of travel, a little cold and generally well-filled days, I went for a run in the forest this evening. It felt like catching up with and settling into being on holiday. Like my feet finally finding solid ground again after traveling far and wide. In no way has it been bad to travel - exactly the opposite in fact - but it is still very good to be home again and know that the rest of this week is firmly rooted right here.</p>
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