So apparently I haven’t updated my blog in quite a while. Quite a lot has happened since the last update.

I started working at IT Mill, the company behind the Vaadin framework.I’ve gotten off to a good start, I’m currently working on something I call TouchKit. It’s a combination of a few custom components and extensions to Vaadin that allows you to create web applications that look like iPhone applications using nothing but Java. Check out the video preview below:

Well, that’s all for now. I’ll try to get back to the habit of updating the blog a bit more often again

Despite the blog being only a few weeks old, I’m already getting a lot of spam in the comments. I have now installed the WordPress Hashcash plugin to prevent spambots from sending comments. The plugin works by requiring the browser to perform a proof-of-work to ensure that it is in fact a browser and not a bot. It also checks that trackback URLs in fact contain a link to the page and that comment IP addresses match.

The plugin should not interfere with any valid comments and allow me to use my time blogging, not filtering through heaps of spam. If it does block your comment, make sure that you have JavaScript enabled in your browser. If it still doesn’t work, send me an email at marcus [at] marcushellberg.com.

Happy New Year everyone! The blog has gotten off to a good start, I hope you come back next year.

PS. Don’t forget my Google Wave invitation giveaway if you are looking for an invite

There seems to be a lot of interest in the old post about digital TV in Linux that I dug up from my archives. Please leave me a comment if you follow the instructions in the post so I know if the information in it is still relevant or if it should be updated. I don’t have the USB tuner anymore myself, so I can’t try it out by myself. Thanks.

Everything seems to be moving along nicely. I really like WordPress, it was very easy to set up and start blogging. I currently use ready made theme that I found, which I think suits my blog very nicely. I may build an own theme some time in the future, but I’m sticking to this theme for now.

Dreamhost is still working very nicely. The biggest issue I have encountered is that I can’t access the stats page of my domain because WordPress’ .htaccess file tries to map the url to a page within the blog.

I have a lot of ideas for posts, so stay tuned!

//Marcus

So I finally resurrected marcushellberg.com from the slumber that it has been in for the last few years. I took advantage of the deal dreamhost had yesterday, 1 year of hosting including a domain for $9.24 for a year. In addition to transferring over marcushellberg.com i also got marcushellberg.net which only acts as a mirror for the .com domain for now.

I have to say that I’m quite impressed with how dreamhost has worked, so far at least. The domain was registered and I could access my WordPress installation that i installed using the OneClick installer in only a few minutes. I also like the fact that I get unlimited MySQL databases and can run Ruby on Rails apps, something that many hosts do not allow. SSH access was a must for me, so I’m happy that this was also included.

So, so far everything is running along nicely. It’ll still take me probably weeks to get the site fully up and running, but it’s getting there. I hope that dreamhost really is as good as it seems.

//Marcus

Hello there. This is, or rather will be, my personal blog about different things I find interesting. I hope that the things I write will be entertaining and useful to you. Check back in a while after I have got everything up and running.

//Marcus