Liberation

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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Like just about everyone I need to get a hair cut every now and then. No matter how hard I try to slow down the growing of my hair I always find myself sitting in the barber’s chair a month after the last time. And I always get the same unnerving feeling that I have [...]

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I’m a big fan of Scott Ginsberg, the guy who wears a name tag 24/7 to make people friendlier. His ideas about maximizing your approachability and thus improving your odds of getting to know people, find new business opportunities and to make a name for yourself resonate very well with me. Lately I’ve been thinking [...]

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For the past few days I’ve been struggling with a moral dilemma: I’m attracted to the idea of test driven development (TDD) and writing unit tests before actual code, and it’s great whenever I do excercises to try it out. My problem is that although I’d like to work in a completely test driven way, [...]

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In software development each project starts with one basic question: “What is it that I am trying to do for the customer?” But when you think about it, it’s not only a software development question. The same question applies to all creative work, be it writing, building houses or making a dinner at a five-star [...]

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