Oskar Pettersson
Category: Rants

Licentiate Thesis

It’s time to present my licentiate thesis!  It is an open defense so just drop by if you are around.

Tiny update

I am currently in the “refinement” phase of my licentiate thesis (which is something we do in Sweden, writing a thesis is so much fun that we do it twice). This basically have been the focus of most of my attention for the better part of 4 months now and quite frankly its been exhausting. [...]

The unfortunate case of the troublesome laptop

Everyone who knows me have probably heard me rant about the lack of quality in the Macbook Pro that I currently have assigned to me at work. It started with bright spots on the screen, which is not really a big deal for me as I’m usually head deep into a IDE and thus not [...]

A day in the life of a PhD student

We did a small technology test today, the field was like a swamp and the wind was biting. The technology worked tho and everyone was happy. But this photo made me think of a new research question, perhaps someone is interested in writing a paper about this. How many PhDs does it take to figure [...]

ECSA 2010 and NORDITEL 2010

It has been a couple of busy weeks with ECSA and Norditel both in the same week. Sadly I did not have time to attend the main ECSA conference but the Second Workshop on Software Ecosystems that I was there for was quite interesting. The workshop had some good presentations in it, even if the [...]

Back in Sweden

After a extended visit to Taiwan me and Didac touched down in Sweden (Kastrup is in Denmark I know but very close to Sweden) at 14isch yesterday. After a quick detour to Vislanda to visit Idas parents and grandmother I made it home and have basically been asleep since. After 12 hours or so of [...]

Stuck in Taiwan

I guess everyone has heard about the volcano by now. For us it means that we are effectively stuck in Kaohsiung until this blows over. All is not bad news however, after the first feelings of frustration and angst, Taiwan is not at all a bad country to be stuck in. Most people, especially in [...]

First day of WMUTE

Been spending a two days in Kaoshiung and it is one amazing town. The tempo is crazy and the traffic is utter chaos (or just normal traffic according to Didac ). Found time to do some general touristy stuff and tasted the local cuisine which was quite different and really good. The 2010 edition of [...]

Finally..

Sure took me a while but now I finally aggregated something I’m happy with design wise! Pretty empty right now but will fill up as time passes by I hope, the closest thing on the horizon is of course WMUTE in Taiwan so hopefully there will be some updates from there.