Jonas Beckman

I’m leaving for Thailand tomorrow. Sweden is getting grey, cold and awful (it usually is in November). So the timing is perfect.

It’s now late at night and I’m still preparing some course material. We didn’t go to OOPSLA this year – but we are having a mini-conference at the Phuket Royal Yacht club instead.

I’ll hold a 4-day workshop: design and implementation of IM-tools using C#. First some C# basics, then some IM and P2P theory and after that we’ll hack… should be lots of fun. But I am very, very tired right now.

Yes, I know… very little weblogging lately. There has been personal stuff I can’t write about – I respect other’s who wish to remain non-public. Also, intense researching lately – but I need serious time to edit and think.

Anyway, I am still reading my old favorites. I will be back!

Me and a colleague will hold a lecture next week called From Sockets to Soap. It’s about basic solutions for distributed computing and how they can be implemented at different layers of complexity.

The socket samples I’ll steal from Mark Lutz great book Programming Python. Perfect sample code: readable and fits on a single slide. I love Python!

I like to tell everybody that being without good virus protection is clueless and stupid. Mark Pilgrim recently listed 7 ways to protect your home Windows PC – and I already knew them. So with several antivirus subscriptions about to run out, I immediately went hunting for something to soothe my paranoia.

I ended up with Russian Kaspersky Labs, makers of very thorough antivirus software.