We don’t need a healthcare platform

Hello world

This text was triggered by discussions on Twitter in the wake of a Norwegian blog post I published about health platforms.
I stated that we need neither Epic, nor OpenEHR, nor any other platform to solve our healthcare needs in the Norwegian public sector. Epic people have not responded, but the OpenEHR crowd have been actively contesting my statements ever since. And many of them don’t read Norwegian, so I’m writing this to them and any other English speakers out there who might be interested. I will try to explain what I believe would be a better approach to solve our needs within the Norwegian public healthcare system.

The Norwegian health department is planning several gigantic software platform projects to solve our health IT problems. And while I know very little about the healthcare domain, I do know a bit about software. I know for instance that the larger…

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Norgeshistoriens dårligste idé

Hello world

Aftenposten tok kontakt i forrige uke for å få noen innspill om Akson-prosjektet.  Resultatet ble publisert her.
Men artikkelen gjengir selvsagt ikke alt jeg sa, så jeg har fått lov til å publisere det fulle intervjuet her.

Aftenposten:
På bloggen din skriver du om «hvordan både konsulenter og fast ansatte har valgt en prosjektgjennomføring som går imot alt vi har lært om softwareutvikling og hvordan man unngår katastrofer.» Hva legger du i dette?

Svar:
Først og fremst mener jeg dette med at de har valgt å løse så mange problemer i ett stort prosjekt som skal gå over 10 år og koste flerfoldige milliarder kroner.  Vi har veldig mye erfaring nå, både i Norge og internasjonalt, både i privat og offentlig sektor, som tilsier at størrelse på prosjekt, både i omfang, kostnad, tid og antall deltakere korrelerer negativt med suksess.  Jo større prosjektet er, jo større sjanse er det…

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Fixing font rendering in WebStorm on Ubuntu

The font rendering experience I got out of the box on Ubuntu was terrible, but I think it was just due to using the Oracle JDK, which I had to use since WebStorm crashed when using the OpenJDK that was installed by default in Ubuntu 17.04. After wasting half a day trying to fix it – seeing countless dubious JDK downloads and unhelpful tips – this is what I ended up doing that seemed the most solid and actually worked.

Avoid Fundancer and Theater 21

A Youtube ad for a site called Theater 21, that promised a variety of full length movies for a monthly fee, led me to a site sign up for a trial membership. The membership signup did not lead to any Theater21 site, but to Fundancer.net. After signing up I tried searching for the movie on fundancer, found nothing, and then promptly returned to Theater 21, which seemed to have the movie. Every attempt at logging in only landed me back at Fundancer. So I sent a customer inquiry to the support, asking for how to get access. The response came within seconds: my subscription was cancelled!

The reason was obvious. They did not actually have any of the content they advertised, only clinging to income by people not cancelling the fake subscription before 5 days had passed, leading to 89$ being deducted monthly. That’s 3 times what Netflix and HBO cost each month. The site Spam 404 also warns aganst the site. Should have googled them …

My advise is clear: stay clear of Theater 21 and Fundancer! And so should Google!

Svineinfluensa (H1N1), vaksinasjon og narkolepsi – et overblikk

Belle Tully

Lenge siden sist.

Jeg har blitt stadig mer oppmerksom på en faktor rundt svineinfluensavaksinasjonen og narkolepsi, og hvordan jeg aldri noen sinne har sett at det er blitt nevnt i media. Innen akademia er det et særlig kjent fenomen, men av en eller annen grunn ser det ut til å forbli en slags internkunnskap. Dét synes ikke jeg noe om.

Vi har nok alle fått med oss den store tragedien der barn utviklet narkolepsi etter at de ble injisert med svineinfluensavaksinen. Det som derimot mange kanskje ikke er klar over, er at det er ikke hvem som helst som utvikler dette.

Relativt nylig har man begynt å få en bedre forståelse for hva som faktisk forårsaker autoimmun narkolepsi hos enkelte, og jeg skal etter beste evne forsøke å forklare dette så enkelt det lar seg gjøre. Dere får tilgi de litt slurvete MSPaint-tegningene mine og oversimplifiseringene (oversimplifiseringer blir sjeldent 100%…

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AWS Java documentation is fucked

This is why I don’t work with Java anymore

A Really Good Rant

The problem

We recently had a use case that was a perfect for the Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF).

In the end it was quite simple to implement. I simply read the C# SWF Hello World example and implemented that in Java.

The actual Java example is a nightmare. The following is not a rant about Java, Design Patterns or Aspect Oriented programming. I actually don’t mind any of those. It’s a rant about a Hello World example that requires hours to even setup and comprehend and in the end abstracts the whole point of the exercise away.

The fucking ridiculous HelloWorld example

Let me show you why i do not like to use the Java examples and why in general the AWS documentation is complete shit.

Let me introduce you to the SWF Hello World Java example. It has a few prerequisites.

Step 1

Setting up the Framework with the Toolkit for Eclipse

I’m in…

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Mounting VMDK images on OS X

Just some quicknotes on how you can extract files from a vmdk image when on OS X. The tips should also be applicable for other operating systems.

1Password in Linux

I was amazed to find out that, although there is no Linux client for 1Password, you can actualy achieve full browser integration in Chrome under Linux! This is all possible using Wine, and worked surprisingly well. Using this, I can fill in passwords in the browser using the 1Password plugin, as well as add new ones.

This worked far better than I had hoped, and there are decent instructions from AgileBits on how to get this set up in the forums