I have been programming for 30 years and it has rarely felt boring. Seeing an abstract design come to life in the form of a functional application has always brought me joy like very few other things in life have been able to do. Learning new technologies and building things

So, I started this blog as an outlet for me to express my feelings on coding and technology in general. This is my first post in almost ten years. A lot has changed in the intervening decade. Nowadays, It's a lot harder to get excited about technology as

Great ergonomics is a thing you grow to appreciate. It's also the main reason why I like playing games on consoles rather than on my computer. Modern games consoles also come with controllers that are out of the box compatible with a vast array of games on Mac

I love listening to music. I also appreciate solid engineering skills and attention to detail. This combination makes me a bit of a hi-fi buff. I'm not one of those high-end audio enthusiasts that believe electrons travel way better from one end of the cable to the other

I thought it would be useful for myself to create a short list of cool stuff I've run across recently. This is mainly just for me to keep track of things and remind me of all the awesome things I should be doing but am not. So, here

According to the Finnish law [http://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/alkup/1992/19921256#Pid205051], vehicles in classes M2 and M3 are required to carry a so-called "100 km/h speed badge". This badge is a round sticker with a yellow background and a black number 100. Nothing

For the past year, all new Drupal sites built by Network Publications [http://www.networkpublications.com] have been hosted on the Jelastic [http://www.jelastic.com] PaaS platform provided by the magnificent people at Planeetta Internet [http://www.planeetta.net]. We're currently running a few dozen sites on

The command line interface, or CLI for short, can be quite an intimidating thing. When you start it up, it just sits there waiting for you to input your commands. It almost feels like a mafia hitman waiting for you to pick a person to whack. I suppose the fact

Despite all the stupid things [http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/01/15/the-next-phase-of-node-js/index.html] happening in the Node.js [http://nodejs.org/] community, I'm a big fan of Bryan Cantrill [https://twitter.com/bcantrill]. He has pointed out the awesomeness of awk [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

At Network Publications [http://www.networkpublications.com], we work with Drupal all day every day. We build dozens of sites a year and almost every single one of them runs on Drupal. We live and breathe Drupal. For us, it's the tool of choice when it comes to