I figured I should start a small development project on the side, just for fun and learning. It resulted in Spotiseek – a tool for finding new music for Spotify.
The concept is pretty straightforward – enter the name of an artist you like, and get a playlist ready to be used in Spotify!
You should check it out if you like Spotify and want to find some new music. I’d love to get some feedback and suggestions as well!
As of now, I’m moving the blog, Really Aced, from the WordPress servers to my own, blog.sommestad.net (this is where you are, if you haven’t noticed 
).
The reason to this is to get more control over the site and be able to customize however I want. Also, I thought I’d better use the sommestad.net domain for something…
The site design will probably change and evolve over time, maybe when I feel like shaking things around a little. Apart from that, the blog will stay the same.
Welcome!
Note: I’ve re-added all posts from the old blog to this one, while still leaving the old blog as is. Hence, the dates of posts prior to today, aren’t correct. Also, there are some comments missing too (those added by others than myself).
I noticed that I could export and import everything from the old blog, so I did that instead.
A while ago I started looking at Google Books. I’ve been reading sporadically about Google’s book effort for a few years, but I’ve never really dug into it. After making a few book searches, I can tell that it’s an awesome product!
The search results have really met my demands so far, and much of the contents of the books are available to read on-line. As many of the books are protected by copyright, the publishers (from what I’ve understood, anyway) decide which pages to publish on-line. From what I’ve seen so far, they’ve more or less randomly removed a few pages here and there, to encourage the reader to buy the book to get the full contents. And that’s fine by me!
I think it’s a great tool to use when searching for development material (“I know I read it in this and that book, but I don’t have the book now…”) and when you want to get a good preview of a book before going all-in on Amazon.
Try it out yourself!
(Every time Google does something like this, I get more and more scared they’ll begin charging us big-time soon… )
Got a link sent to me regarding a campaign aimed to “Bring down IE6“. Let’s hope they accomplish something, because that would make the web development life a lot easier…
