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I've written a small web application; a javascript poker clock. You can read more about it by following this link.

I've been a perl programmer for a long time, and it has served me good. As computers and web browsers became faster, using Javascript for web pages and lately, web applications, became important. For some time I've been using Javascript when and whereever it made sense, but mostly for client side "sugar". Perl is a great language, has a great community with plenty of high quality libraries ("CPAN"). Most scripting languages are appreciated for their simplicity, and less for their speed.

After upgrading my development system and servers to newer linux releases (Ubuntu 10.04 in my case), it's that time again where I need to look at how I synchronize work across my machines. My work pattern is pretty standard; in my office I have a desktop computer with a multiscreen setup. In addition I have a laptop that I carry with me everywhere else. I also have a server which hosts my personal web server, email and other apps I'm working on that are server hosted.

For the last few years, I've been running the KDE version of Ubuntu, named Kubuntu, on my desktop computers (laptop and desk computer). The last few years, KDE has progressed a lot, and with a couple of exceptions I have been very pleased with my KDE based desktops. One recurring problem with Kubuntu/KDE however has been it's wireless connection applet; the thingy that manages your wireless connections on a laptop. Another one is managing multiple screen, which is supported by the KDE GUI, but for some reason never remembered and had to be redone for each reboot.

I have recently upgraded the server serving these (and other) pages. It's been lots of fun. I've almost forgot how funny it is trying to piece together postfix, dovecot, amavisd, clamav and procmail to get proper mail handling, including virus and spam filtering and secure authentication. Sign me up for wanting new more modern email standards! Anyway, things are starting to fall back in place, and I hope to have most things running smoothly shortly.

I recently needed some simple animation effects for a project, basically gradually changing the background colour from "hot" to "normal" on certain topics. I have a backend that processes realtime information and logs it on a webpage which is streaming (using the perl-based Meteor server). What I wanted to do is that new log entries "glow" with a hot color, gradually changing to normal over time, typically 15 minutes in my case. Dojo has objects named animateProperty for doing this, which works great. There is a catch however.

With the success growth stocks had in 2007, it is easy to point to dividend/income stocks as under/non-performers. An article in Economist December 13th writes (http://economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10286619):

Those funds that invest on the basis of dividend income have also suffered badly. Alex Stewart, a strategist at Dresdner Kleinwort, says 2007 has been an annus horribilis for income investing.

Joomla has served me nicely for quite a while now. But over time I have become frustrated with the lack of "native" comments and forums and the various hacks to get comments/forums working nicely. I've had some success with SMF, but the pain one needs to endure to keep the user database, session cookies and passwords getting lost by themselves finally got to me. The one thing which I still believe is better are the Joomla templates supplied by

I have a background developing software for both Windows and Linux, although for the last 10 years I have been mostly doing development on and for Linux. Some time ago I took an assigment for a client involving developing Windows software. I made a first prototype using Perl on Windows which worked just fine, and the client wanted a C#/.Net version instead, so off I went.

I have been working on finding strategies that work for real-time trading through an ATS (Automated Trading System). I did some initial tests using MACD, before moving on to implementing one of the systems in "The Original Turtle Trading Rules".