Tonight we are shipping the new RSBC (the national operations center) for the Swedish Customs Service, which is a BIG system.I have developed, amongst other stuff on the system, mainly the Intranet and GPS localization systems. My first really huge deliverysince I started here…so Im a BIT nervous right now. Hope everything will work out though. Not sure why Im blogging this, I should be down helping my colleagues…just had run up and fix some bugs and get some candy haha :D...

I have learned something new today (good god ;-)). I have always thought that mainframes were dying dinosaurs on its way out off the market; sure you have supercomputers (but are that really the same thing?). What's cool is that IBM is still manufacturing mainframes (like the Z System) and the demand is increasing incredibly especially in banking and other areas with a high demand of reliability, security and accuracy. What is even COOLER than the fact that these giant machines are still in production...

There are lot of things that the average Asp.net newbie simply cannot grasp (hey it is a part of the learning process and I am definitely not one of the gurus), and one of them is that there is a surprisingly large group of people who can't understand the difference between web applications and desktop applications. They have the craziest ideas like accessing the client's serial ports or write to the clients file system. Not that there is aaaanything wrong with that, it is just up to people like...