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Den här gången pratar jag om riskanalys. Idén föddes ur en frustration över att det är så mycket lättare att identifiera risker i ett förslag (och därmed kasta en skugga av rädsla, osäkerhet och tvivel över förslaget, vilket gör att … Läs mer

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New IDG column

This time, it’s about the recently discovered flaws in WinZip 9.0′s AES support and the importance of knowing exactly what it is that a security solution protects against. Read it here (as always, in Swedish) Update: Better yet, read it here, with nicer … Läs mer

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This month’s IDG.se column: Giving props to Smalltalk

Alan Kay recently won the Turing award for his work on Smalltalk and subsequent projects. I spent some time with the free smalltalk implementation Squeak this weekend, and was particularly impressed with the very dynamic nature of things — being … Läs mer

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New IDG column

This time, I give props to PHP.

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Yet another column

I got the opportunity to write another column for IDG.se this week. The topic is Spam, it’s ten year anniversary, and why Microsoft’s ”Penny Black” system, where the sender buys a virtual stamp by performing ten CPU-seconds worth of calculation, … Läs mer

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New IDG.se column up

It’s been a while since I wrote in this blog. I’ve been working a lot with Unicode and Arabic character encodings lately, and will probably post a little story about that soon enough, but for now I’ll just plug my … Läs mer

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New IDG column on its way

I’ve just finished this weeks column for IDG.se. This week, the news of Intels new line of P4′s tied nicely into a rant about how we really do need ever faster computers, even though not all of us may have … Läs mer

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