After a year of doing freelance programming/consulting, I have a better understanding of why some people choose academia or research as a career path: Intellectual stimulation. I have been working mostly with website and webshop backend programming and on a day-to-day basis, the recipe is basically the same: Create a datatable in a database. Create… Continue reading Intellectual stimulus
Category: Industry
Why you should not use Microsoft Silverlight for your next web application
The above warning message sums up everything I dislike about proprietary web technologies. Silverlight is a fairly new Microsoft technology from 2007 and Moonlight is its Open Source and not up-to-date equivalent that I have to use because Microsoft does not provide Silverlight for Linux. Since most software only run on Windows anyway why is… Continue reading Why you should not use Microsoft Silverlight for your next web application
Business Stock Photo
Did you ever wonder where companies get their nice looking photos for the pages of their website? You know, the ones with a team with an equal amount of male and female employees that are just so happy about their jobs and dying to get some work done and have you as their next customer?… Continue reading Business Stock Photo
Walled Gardens of countries
Having recently moved to Sweden but with business/friends/family in Denmark, I have experienced first-hand a phenomenon that has increasingly been discussed in various forms over the recent years: Walled Gardens. According to Wikipedia, a walled garden refers to: … a closed or exclusive set of information services provided for users. This is in contrast to… Continue reading Walled Gardens of countries
Resumes are bullshit
Today, I was asked by a consultancy agency to provide a resume (or Curriculum Vitae or CV) with “some more meat on it” than one I had sent earlier which was very basic and with simple bullet points. I have always felt that resumes are bullshit and I have always wanted to blog about it… Continue reading Resumes are bullshit