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In his book, The Dip, Seth Godin talks about a period of hard times that you have to get through before you can become the best in what you do. At first, everything goes smoothly and you seem unstoppable. Then, as if there was some kind of dark magic at play, you hit a wall [...]
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Here’s for a merry, peaceful Christmas with your closest ones! Big thanks for making 2008 special, and see you again in 2009! (It will come sooner than you’d expect…) – Jarkko
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The field of media is changing. And it is doing so on multiple levels at once: Old media, such as newspapers and magazines, are quickly losing ground to the Internet as a whole. It’s not doing so without a fight. At the same time, blogs are winning ground from the old kind of non-blog Internet [...]
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September 8. – 9. 2007 will be an interesting 48 hours as enthusiastic Rails developers gather to compete against each other in designing, building and deploying the best Rails application they can think of. If you are into Ruby and Rails and have a weekend to spare, make sure to check out the competition. I [...]
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Don’t be a programmer Wow. That’s harsh. You can imagine my first reaction when I saw those four words in my blog statistics. Someone had actually found their way to this site by typing “Don’t be a programmer” in a search engine! At first it felt like a joke (it is actually quite funny to [...]
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If you are like me, every time you need to log in to a web service that you haven’t been using for a while you go through a routine of trying out a few different user name and password combinations. When you get tired of trying, you click on the “forgot your password?” link and [...]
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My brother Lauri got married yesterday. The wedding was nice, the bride looked beautiful (the groom wasn’t bad either) and everyone had a good time. But I didn’t get a chance to give a speech so I decided to write this small blog post instead. This is for you Lauri! As Lauri is a programmer, [...]
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A few days ago I talked with my friend Vidi about summer holidays. His plans where quite what could be expected from a programmer: mostly programming and maybe a few short visit outdoors if the weather is good. But mostly programming. That made me think that we programmers really are a funny breed: Although we [...]
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