What is this thing called ‘blog’ that I’ve been hearing about?
Hi there!
Starting my first blog - this should be interesting. I have multiple times thought of starting my own blog - but the idea has always failed when I remember finally how lazy I am. But now it’s time to get my stuff together, and put some effort in it. I have some work-related stuff that I’m thought of writing articles about, so I guess a blog format would fit it quite well. Second motivation is that I’m quite bad in writing articles, posts, specs, whatever, and the best way to get better is by writing.
Best to start of with some background information. I live in the northern cold regions of Turku, Finland. I’m (sadly still) a student at the university Åbo Akademistudying on a master degree in computer science. I’m about 3/4 done. I’m also working full time as a software developer at the company Oy IT Mill Ltd , developing projects with the company’s framework, Vaadin. Vaadin is a Java framework for developing web applications. At work we have something called Community Friday, where we can use 10% of our whole working time into doing some personal projects. Right now I’m exploring what happens when Vaadin goes Spring. I was going to write some articles about it, and that’s the main reason why I put up this site, and writing this right now. So you might expect to see a series of articles written about Vaadin and Spring in the near future.
Besides being interested in software engineering, I’m also quite fond of finance and will probably write something about that too. I have recently got heavily involved into investing (while I might say heavily, keep in mind that I’m still a student so there is no millions flying around :)). I see stock markets and money more like a big system, or as a game. And as with most games, you can beat it if you’re justskillful enough. For me it is not so much about the money itself - but more about the challenge in the system that intrigues me.
And following up on the topic of games - I really like games. More exactly all kinds of computer games, but also board games. I guess I never outgrew my inspirationin gaming when I was little, and I have no intentions to stop playing either. I may express some opinions in that topic as well.
Other than that, I don’t know, maybe I want to express myself regarding music, gadgets, random thoughts of life, something like that. Let’s see. My first topics will probably be work related. A introduction of Vaadin, followed up on a series of posts regarding Vaadin and Spring integration. It’s all quite open still.
