I just pushed a example on how to create a ChaosMonkey with the Slim framework to github. The idea is that whenever you create a webservice with the Slim framework (which is really simple) you rarely test for failure, the ChaosMonkey class will help you to do just that. When initialized with the AbsoluteChaos plugin [...]
The PHP testfest 2009 is over, and a coffee mug just arrived in the mail. Finally my elePHPant can have some coffee as well! Thanks to php.no and redpill-linpro for arranging this years testfest. If you are in Norway and need a job ( or maybe want to move to Norway ): in Fronter we [...]
A couple of weeks ago the tasting of the evening was from five closed distilleries, a very enjoyable sitdown with a large crowd at the local nmwl. Littlemill, 1991, 16 yo, 46 % (Murray McDavid) Nose: this has to be one of the stranges associations I’ve ever had in a whisky – every year at [...]
Last week the time came for a Ardbeg Supernova tasting at Jekylls in Oslo, hosted by Chris Maile. The basement of Jekylls filled pretty much up and we were presented with a introduction by Chris about the Ardbeg distillery. Then there was the tasting, first we tasted the new Renaissance before we digged into the [...]
A couple of weeks ago I sat down on a nmwl with 5 10yo whiskies in front of me to taste blind. This is always a good exercise since you don’t pre-judge based on the label of the bottle, everyone should try this from time to time just to see what happens. We got a [...]
2009 have started out as good as 2008 was when it came to quality hiphop concerts, and looking at the schedule for what’s to come later this year it will be a great one! So far it’s been 3 concerts. Check The Rhyme This one went down on Betong in Oslo: a classic lineup of [...]
Today I have set up planet-whisky.com: a site that aggregates whisky blogs and news from around the world into one easy-to-read overview of what’s happening in the whisky world. The site fetches RSS feeds from various sources that I have picked out on a regular basis (once every hour ). You can of course use [...]
Det er valg Ã¥r i Ã¥r, og Hallvard Lavoll sitt Politikere på twitter innlegg fekk meg til Ã¥ tenke litt angÃ¥ande valget som kjem om ikkje sÃ¥ altfor lenge: kva bedriv politikarane i Noreg med for tida? Eg satte meg ned og klikka meg gjennom ein del sider, men Ã¥ halde seg oppdatert pÃ¥ ein [...]
This week I ended up at the nmwl meeting where topic of the night was Flora and Fauna – this is the unofficial name of a series of malt whisky from Diageo/United Distillers ( originally coined by Michael Jackson after the decor on the bottles, and the term just stuck), we tasted 5 different bottles [...]
The Drammies 2008 awards has been anounced, and you should take some time to send them a email with your votes: What’s with the email anyway, where’s the online form that I can submit? Anyway, I’ve submitted my votes and here are my votes for 2008: