2008 retrospective
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- My first visit to NYC & Niagara
- Mattias buys his own apartment
- Briefly engaged in Tango/D development
- Best picture of the year lost in Germany
- Smisk 1.0
- Mom gets married
- Adobe fails to change language
- Ejoyed my last Belgo Dubbel
- Finally got to fly a helicopter
- Dads 50th birthday
- Music into quiz == midsummer
- iPhone arrives to Sweden
- Vacation in Hong Kong
- Noko Jeans officially accounted for
- Spotify goes public
- Smisk 1.1 released and used by Spotify
- Other events during 2008
My first visit to NYC & Niagara












Mattias buys his own apartment

Briefly engaged in Tango/D development
I'm briefly engaged in Tango/D programming language development, responsible for the Mac OS X package. My progressively increased lack of interest in Tango/D made me leave the team in November.Best picture of the year lost in Germany

Smisk 1.0
The first version of Smisk – a high performance web service framework – is released.Mom gets married
My dear mother and her Magnus get married. A little surprise marriage during another celebration in Paris.






Adobe fails to change language

Ejoyed my last Belgo Dubbel

Finally got to fly a helicopter
This was a big thing for me, as I've flown lots of different airplanes but never a helicopter. Got this opportunity as a 25th birthday gift from my parents and friends.


Dads 50th birthday

Music intro quiz == midsummer

iPhone arrives to Sweden
As the technology fan I am, this was of course very exciting, even though the most conservative service provider; Telia, signed the valuable we're-the-only-ones-who-can-earn-money-from-your-thing-in-Sweden-contract with Apple Inc. (Telia press release.) I'd earlier bought a generation 1 iPhone in the U.S. – now I needed to change ISP and upgrade to generation 2, something that took me about two months.Vacation in Hong Kong

Noko Jeans officially accounted for

Spotify goes public


Smisk 1.1 released and used by Spotify
Smisk 1.1 is released and at the same time being used in the high-load backend system of Spotify. This is the third time one of my hobby open source-projects is used for profit in production. Earlier projects are Content Daemon used as the Spray content aggregation backend and AbstractBase, a PHP runtime library used to service spray.se and parts of spotify.com (as well as this blog and numerous other small projects).Other events during 2008
Flickr/Yahoo! cooperates with several archives/libraries, releasing historical photography under Creative Commons or lesser licenses. George Eastman House, State Library of New South Wales, Nationaal Archief, and The Library of Congress all joined the idea during 2008. This is something great, giving the people access to all of these photographies (and videos) documenting our civilization. Leica announces they are using a different strategy than other high-end camera manufacturers when they sayToday’s and tomorrow’s users will always be able to incorporate the latest refinements and developments in handling ease and technology.. Basically, the M8 will be partially upgraded rather than replaced. At least in a semi-long term perspective. Horray for less consumerism. 2008 was also the first full year Spotify spent at Humlegårdsgatan 20, our second Stockholm office. Adium, a popular instant messenger for the Mac OS, was released including a patch enabling Spotify URI support. Adium 1.3 with Spotify-support