Blogs

• 02 Jan 2021

  Gatsby after-action review, moved to Hugo

  2020 was not a great year, for my blog, as for many other things. Part of the reason that I’ve got so little written the...
• 03 Nov 2019

  Upgrading the graphics card in an Alienware X51

  I’m by no means a big gamer, but I do indulge from time to time. I have a Alienware X51 R3 gaming PC. I’m generally happ...
• 01 Nov 2019

  Setting up a home VPN server with Wireguard

  Motivation For a moderately security conscious geek like myself, there can be a number of reasons to want to set up a ho...
• 29 Aug 2019

  How software made me loathe my luxury car

  I am the disgruntled owner of a 2015 BMW 320d xDrive. That’s a luxury car, at least to a Dane. And I’m a bit surprised ...
• 18 Apr 2017

  Why I care about the Drupal drama

  There’s been a lot said and written about the most recent drama in the Drupal community, quite a few people have asked m...
• 14 Apr 2017

  My take on Mass Effect: Andromeda

  Being a huge fan of the first two Mass Effect games (and at least mostly satisfied with the third), getting the fourth g...
• 23 Mar 2017

  A vote of no confidence in the Drupal Association leadership

  I have had many differences with the Drupal Association in the past, starting with the many clashes we had with their er...
• 14 Oct 2016

  Now on Drupal 8

  Once again, this blog has moved to a new technilogical platform.
• 09 Oct 2016

  The worst kind of publicity

  Flying to and from DrupalCon Dublin, I noticed something new in the preflight briefing. It’s been widely reported ...
• 14 May 2015

  Drupal is still a gated community

  One of the things the Drupal community prides itself on, is how open the community is. And that is generally true, but t...
• 08 Jan 2015

  Please stop saying “Not all X are like that”

  I’m so tired of seeing “Not all X are like that”. Not be cause its untrue. But because it is stating the obvious. ...
• 10 Nov 2014

  Catalonian independence

  First, congratulations to the people of Catalonia, on their referendum yesterday. The right to political freedom is esse...
• 09 Feb 2014

  Something weird, in the neighborhood

  This blog of mine has been a weird fixture of my existence. I started it in 2005, and since then it been through quite a...
• 08 Aug 2013

  On Gratitude and Taxes

  One of the most damaging ideas of recent history is the idea that taxes are about paying your debt to society. Originall...
• 20 Jul 2013

  Presenting the Opening Hours Module

  Do you need to tell your visitors when you are open for business? Your office hours, when the service desk is open? The...
• 16 Jul 2013

  Installing LedgerSMB with Homebrew on OS X

  I use LedgerSMB for doing the finances for Drupal Danmark and Högh I+O. I recently moved my installation to a Mac, a...
• 08 Jun 2013

  American comedy movies – idiocy distilled

  A concept that periodically fills me with dread, wonder and frustration is American comedy movies, or perhaps just a cer...
• 17 Sep 2012

  How to configure Octopress for Drupal Planet syndication

  Since I moved my blog to Octopress, I’ve been struggling with my blog posts not getting picked up by Planet Drupal...
• 24 Jul 2012

  Varnish as reverse proxy with nginx as web server and SSL terminator

  Or, if you like, the nginx-Varnish-nginx sandwich. Why? This is, admittedly, a bit unorthodox. But here’s my rationale: ...
• 05 Apr 2012

  Deploying LedgerSMB with nginx and Plack on FreeBSD

  I have recently been looking at LedgerSMB for Drupal Danmark’s accounting needs, but I’ve struggled getting it set up, s...
• 20 Dec 2011

  Trouble in Node.js paradise: The mess that is npm

  The preface Let me begin by stating that I love building web apps with Node.js, and I think it’s one of the greate...
• 20 Oct 2011

  Shave a couple of stubborn of DIV-wrappers off your Drupal site

  One of the more annoying things about theming Drupal sites is having to wade through the staggering amounts of wrapping ...
• 06 Oct 2011

  Using Database-level Foreign Keys in Drupal 7

  If you use a good database system, foreign keys is an actual concept on the server that is used to enforce data integrit...
• 23 Jul 2011

  How to install multicore Apache Solr on FreeBSD with Jetty

  If you use Apache Solr with your Drupal site, you have probably come across the need to have more than one Solr instance...
• 23 Dec 2010

  Run VirtualBox virtual machines on boot in Mac OS X

  To celebrate the launch of VirtualBox 4.0, I’d like to share a simple trick for making your virtual machines start autom...
• 20 Dec 2010

  del.icio.us – can the Drupal community do better?

  As you may know, Yahoo! is in trouble, and has decided to jettison the social bookmarking service del.icio.us (Delicious...
• 22 Oct 2010

  35% response time improvement from switching to uWSGI/nginx

  As part of refreshing the Reveal IT website, I have moved it from mod_wsgi running on Apache HTTPD to uWSGI running on n...
• 08 Oct 2010

  Postbox botches upgrade policy, censors customer complaints

  Postbox is a commercial e-mail client, based on Mozilla Thunderbird. Is is mostly a layer of polish and OS integration o...
• 07 Oct 2010

  Relauching my blog on Drupal 7

  More than a year ago, I was agitating for a move to Drupal 7 for all the blogging developers. As is rather obvious now, ...
• 09 Sep 2010

  Protecting your users from phishing with Apache rules and HSTS

  HTTP Strict Transport Security or HSTS is a new security feature in browsers that enables you tell the browser “always u...
• 09 Aug 2010

  A tip for using PostgreSQL with Drupal 6

  If you are using PostgreSQL for hosting your Drupal sites, you might have noticed a lot of warnings in your logs like th...
• 07 Jun 2010

  Presenting Django Password Required

  Have you ever wanted to password-protect your Django-site, without requiring user registration, do you find HTTP Basic A...
• 21 Jan 2010

  Introducing Herd Fire

  If you, like me, are an avid Firefox user, you will likely have felt the burden of using the same Firefox profile for a ...
• 09 Nov 2009

  Attention all Drupal Git-mirror users

  A long-standing issue with the Git mirrors of Drupal’s CVS has been fixed thanks to Damien Tournoud. The problem i...
• 15 Oct 2009

  New blog, same as the old one...

  So, I finally did it. I’ve long wanted to do something about this blog, to try and push a better design on it and ...
• 08 Oct 2009

  Rotating Apache httpd logfiles on FreeBSD

  With the disk space available on modern servers, you tend to notice some things a lot less. Like the boring fact that wi...
• 15 Sep 2009

  How to get your Disqus API keys

  I’m working on importing my comments into the otherwise excellent Disqus commenting system, but getting ahold of y...
• 27 Aug 2009

  Going to the edge with Drupal 7...

  So, my fellow Drupallers, we are only inches away from the code freeze. Are we afraid yet? A common trend amongst Drupal...
• 11 Aug 2009

  How to create and maintain your own cache table in Drupal

  There’s a lot of good documentation for how to use the caching system already set up, in particular a very nice wr...
• 05 Aug 2009

  Drupal debugging tip – use the logging console

  I recently ran across a feature of Drupal’s devel.module that might not be all that well known, namely that it has...
• 20 Jun 2009

  Introducing the Stack Overflow module for Drupal

  As an avid user of Stack Overflow (and Server Fault, to some degree), I am well pleased to announce the stackoverflow.mo...
• 15 Jun 2009

  Things that should be objects in Drupal #1: Content types

  Currently, defining the simplest content type in Drupal requires ~54 lines of 100% standard boilerplate code. The reason...
• 31 Mar 2009

  The new spam

  I just came across a new kind of spam, very cleverly made: It’s a clever ploy, posting praise with hidden images. ...
• 20 Feb 2009

  Installing FreeBSD 7.1 via eLOM on a Sun Fire X2100

  I’ve just finished my migration of my two servers to FreeBSD 7.1, and I thought I’d take the time to write a...
• 16 Feb 2009

  Lightning fast...

  I remember my first Internet connection, all 33.6 Kbps of it. The warbling sound, the seemingly endless wait for a conne...
• 18 Jan 2009

  Code and slides from DrupalCamp Cologne

  The code from my CCK-presentation with Danish postal code is available on Github. The rest is attached. I’ve made ...
• 13 Jan 2009

  Typogrify under new maintainership...

  So, I’ve finally taken the step up (in responsibility, that is) to become a module maintainer. I’ve been wan...
• 02 Jan 2009

  Snippet: node type specific CSS files

  I just wrote a fun little bit of code for answering a question on our Danish Drupal community site. The user in question...
• 28 Dec 2008

  Upgraded to Drupal 6

  So, I finally got around to upgrading my personal blog to Drupal 6. This was my first Drupal site, started almost two ye...
• 16 Nov 2008

  Preparing for Drupal 7 by changing the way to make parameters for db_query.

  After attending DrupalCon in Szeged and following the new database stuff, I thought a bit about how to make the transiti...
• 16 Nov 2008

  DrupalCamp 2008 slides and code

  Just a public service announcement – here are my slides and the small twitter-like module I created for my “Drupal...
• 13 Nov 2008

  Book Meme

  “Variables in JavaScript are fundamentally the same as object properties” From “JavaScript – The Defi...
• 17 Oct 2008

  Drupal and Varnish HTTP accellerator

  For many reasons, it’s a good idea to have a HTTP accelerator/reverse proxy on your webserver to take some of the ...
• 13 Oct 2008

  Drupal database performance: MySQL and PostgreSQL compared.

  As a long time open source user and a chronic challenger of own assumptions, I often test out the alternatives to my cur...
• 30 Sep 2008

  I'm starting my own Drupal shop

  So, I’m finally able to break the news. I’ve been planning this since before DrupalCon, but there’s be...
• 23 Sep 2008

  My six months with Mollom

  As many Drupallers know, Mollom has been out for a while now, six months in fact, and I just wanted to share my enthusia...
• 31 Aug 2008

  Thank you, DrupalCon

  So, DrupalCon is now over. I’m sitting here in the shuttle bus to Budapest with Dries, Webchick, Addison Berry, Ti...
• 14 Aug 2008

  Less pagination on the web, please.

  I recently had the pleasure of a client at work that wanted pagination for his online newspaper-thing, and so I had the ...
• 18 Jul 2008

  When Free is actually limiting

  Is no big surprise that the Free Software Foundation doesn’t like the way things are going with Apple and its iPho...
• 05 Jul 2008

  New server (again)

  As you might have read earlier on this blog, I’ve been self-hosting this website along with a lot of friends and c...
• 12 Jun 2008

  X11 nevermore

  Thom Holwerda has posted an interesting piece on the state of X11 development. This particular passage made me smile: Fo...
• 30 May 2008

  We still don't know what we're doing...

  Drupal’s popularity has really taken off on these parts – the last year has seen amazing growth, from a few hobbyi...
• 02 May 2008

  History meme

  It has become all the rage for geek bloggers to post a list of the most used commands on their command lines, but since ...
• 19 Feb 2008

  A Git mirror for Drupal CVS

  For some weeks, I have on-and-off been trying to create my own mirror of cvs.drupal.org in Git, and now it seems I&rsquo...
• 15 Dec 2007

  A hidden gem for theme developers

  I was doing some work on a site today, and I found me in a bit of a jam. I’d rather not spend a lot of time (as I ...
• 15 Nov 2007

  The political left

  The political left is mainly composed of do-gooders that do not want to do good themselves. Imagine someone wanting to d...
• 30 Aug 2007

  Paying the price and other thoughts

  Life is a collage of the mundane and the profound; I find it hard to say which I enjoy more. For every achievement in li...
• 23 Jun 2007

  Flooded

  We had just finished one of our work Saturdays, our irregular fix-up-the-house days. I had been cleaning the basement al...
• 18 Jun 2007

  The folly of the Ombudsman

  An interesting case concerning the Danish Ombudsman, Hans Gammeltoft-Hansen, and our Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmuss...
• 11 May 2007

  The Adobe hegemony

  I am currently at the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Launch Seminar at CinemaxX, Fisketorvet, Copenhagen, Denmark. I’ve be...
• 11 Apr 2007

  Unionated

  I can’t believe the news today. The danish bus drivers are on strike again. They want higher salaries, but then wh...
• 08 Apr 2007

  Summer is coming

  Its officially a very long time since I last blogged here. The year 2007 has proved to be very interesting so far. There...
• 06 Jan 2007

  Openness

  My recent trip to USA has certainly been educating. I got many of my presumptions confirmed over there, but I’d ha...
• 26 Dec 2006

  Blogging over the Atlantic

  So, here I am at almost 11 km. above surface level, not far from the coast of Iceland. We have been in the air for a lit...
• 19 Dec 2006

  A warning about (mt) Media Temple

  Well, I do not do these kind of things very often, but I feel compelled to warn you to stay away from (mt) Media Temple ...
• 14 Dec 2006

  We're back

  After a rather nasty episode with a DDoS attack and a lot of trouble with my webhosting-provider, my site is finally bac...
• 03 Dec 2006

  The fate of man

  I’ve been watching the blogosphere a lot these last six months, and I’ve seen some rather disturbing things ...
• 10 Nov 2006

  Where there is no vision, the people perish

  I’ve taken an interest in Danish politics, and a thing that really bothers me, is the apparent lack of vision in a...
• 03 Oct 2006

  Decay

  The perhaps greatest curse of this world is how everything decays. Wear and tear, aging. Everything withers, fades, fall...
• 20 Sep 2006

  Percussive maintenance

  I just managed to stumble over Officeslang.com – although I’ve seen most of them before, there were some fun...
• 15 Sep 2006

  Eventful days

  I got my new camera yesterday, a Canon PowerShot A620. It’s brilliant. I’ll post some pictures some time. Sh...
• 02 Sep 2006

  Awake at dawn

  I don’t remember when I last was up this early. It’s a long time ago, anyways. I’ve been up since 3:30...
• 23 Aug 2006

  A new home - and where I didn't want to go today...

  So, we’ve finally moved into our new house in Gentofte (an up-scale suburb of Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark)....
• 23 Jun 2006

  Navision is teh crap

  I’m so unfortunate to be using Microsoft Business Solutions Navision in my daily work. It is normally rather good ...
• 21 Jun 2006

  TurboGears is brilliant

  Some time ago, I wrote a small piece about TurboGears, with a link to a review I read on O’Reilly. Since then I&rs...
• 01 Jun 2006

  Open standards, hooray!

  So, it would seem that we’re really getting open standards in Denmark. A majority for a new law is forming in our ...
• 25 May 2006

  Of new designs, updates and monstrous printers

  As you might have discovered by now, I’ve changed the theme for this website. I downloaded a theme named niftyCorn...
• 23 May 2006

  Moving to greener fields

  So, I’ve changed webhosting-companies. Now I use TextDrive. I won’t go into a long story about what has driv...
• 26 Apr 2006

  But it doesn’t taste like fish

  So, today, I’ve been out eating sushi with my immediate boss, Asbjørn and another friend, who happens to own an IP...
• 22 Apr 2006

  Having a ball

  I can hardly comprehend that it is no more than two weeks ago that I lived in a very small room with two other boys. Now...
• 25 Feb 2006

  Outage is to be expected

  So, we’ve finally gotten internet at our apartment. That’s really nice. Currently, I’m in the process ...
• 04 Feb 2006

  TurboGears - rapid web development in Python

  I stumbled on something interesting today - a RoR-like rapid web development framework, written in python, built on Cher...
• 11 Jan 2006

  limbo

  I’m currently going through a strange phase in my life. I have goals and visions for my future, but the way to acc...
• 05 Jan 2006

  Fed up with Joomla!...

  Yes, I finally got fed up with Joomla!. Joomla! is a very nice and shiny system, but that simply doesn’t change th...