The Power Of Simplicity

My old friend and former colleague Johan Andersson once wrote what I'd like to call a killer app. The "Gimme One" mailservice. It's a match-all (or whatever the equivalent Qmail word is) file for an specific mail address which ivokes a Perl script.

|./generate.pl

generate.pl is a Perl script with a total of 86 lines, which when invoked creates a temporary forward adress at this domain to the senders address and notifies the sender of the newly created mail adress. The Qmailfile created by the script contains the real beauty:

|rm .qmail-temporary-address-1
sender@domain.com

And Johan hacked this together sometime around 2000. Lovely.

Ambigrams

Inspired, of course, by John Langdon's ambigrams for Dan Brown's book Angels & Demons I've started working on my first ambigram. I visited Langdons site for the first time yesterday and found Brett J. Gilbert's site today. So far I've only played with pen and paper to see if it was possible. Now I'm off to download OpenOffice Draw and give it a serious try.

First week at Zystems

My first week at Zystems is coming to an end and it's been a hectic week. We started Monday with introduction, time reporting, configuring our laptops and a sales presentation. Tuesday and Wednesday was IBM MQ and IBM Message Broker crash course. For me it was mostly a recap although a well needed one.

Whole Thursday was spent going through BaseLine which is the Zystems standard for documenting, structuring and implementing integration platforms. This was very much needed.

On Friday morning we hade a brief overview of current and future customers and assignments. Then I headed over to Fora and had lunch with Mats which also gave me a good opportunity to study the work we're doing for them.

Besides spending most of my time off digging in the broker and learning ESQL, which I hopefuly won't have to work much with since Java is coming on strong with the release of version 6 of the broker, I've also picked up Enterprise Integration Patterns for a reread.