musings

I have had a blast today, working on my “Introduction to Music Production” assignment and had planned to write something about the learning process. However, I am drinking “infusion” (rose hip tea with lemon). Anybody knowing me will know that I tend to drink real tea (Camellia sinensis). This can only mean one thing: I’m starting to get sick. No elaboration on learning today, but here’s the video I made Comping Audio Tracks with Reaper

While surfing the Interwebs (looking at private cloud solutions - I plan to give a talk about that later in the year), I also looked at OpenStack. On their blog I stumbled upon the Zero to Book in five days post. A team of people had managed to write a 50'000 word book in just 5 days. As some of you may know, I have written a book too, but it took me 13 months to do so. ...

Much has been spoken about the pros and cons of pair programming. I have had the good fortune to pair program with some great programmers (Flöre and Kaspar come to mind) but it has always been difficult in the settings I worked in to actually do regular pair programming. I facilitated a couple of coding dojos (I know, I know - should do more…) I’m not going to rehash all the pros and cons of pair programming, and this entry is not going to be a learned discussion of it - just my experiences. ...

My iPhone is shuffling through my 20'000 or so tracks I have in iTunes - every day I get to hear around 30 minutes of music - often stuff I had forgotten I had or not heard in a long time. Today I got another dose of Frank Zappa - easily my favorite musician. I absolutely love this part of the lyrics of the song Packard Goose: Information is not knowledge Knowledge is not wisdom ...

A couple of weeks ago we had a photographer coming to our office - the technical HQ of Mobino. The result is the illustration to the current Bilan in an article about “The future of money” (not available online, but I will get a copy on wednesday) From left to right: Alvaro Fussen (senior developer), yours truly, JF Groff (CEO) and Chengchen Ji (our intern for the summer). Not only do we move money, we also do it in style…