Archive for the ‘general’ Category

Unity: The best game development platform?

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

One day I saw a webpage which had some game, and wanted me to download the Unity web player plugin for my browser. I thought "What crap is this? I'm not going to install it!". That was stupid, because Unity rocks as a game development tool!

The best old “indie” games

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

Just for fun, here's a list of the best old shareware/freeware games I played before Windows XP and such even existed... The word indie is quoted because these games would probably be called that nowadays, but weren't back then :D

Blog moved

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

If you see this it means everything has now been moved and the DNS has propagated correctly :) Please let me know if anything appears broken (Leave a comment or contact me via email/IM)

Moving hosting providers

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

I'll be switching hosts from Dreamhost to MediaTemple this weekend, so you may experience hiccups. There will be a new post when the blog has moved.

Solving the alt-tab problem: My solution

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Lately there's been some discussion about "the alt tab problem" - In other words, when you have lots of windows open and when working on something you constantly jump between a few of them. Basically when doing this, it becomes tricky to recall which window you get when you alt ...

Packageizer and ZF modelform now on GitHub

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Due to popular demand, I have now pushed both packageizer and ZF modelform to GitHub. Feel free to fork them or do whatever :)

Come to the best LAN party of 2010, Solid Mojo @ Vantaa 14th May

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

If you live in Finland or just happen to be in Finland in May, come to this year's best LAN party event, Solid Mojo! I will be there so if you want to come laugh at me or something that should be possible too. With 1 000 places for computers, lots ...

Password policies generally suck

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

The other day I was talking with someone about passwords. They had a policy that you are not allowed to use your old passwords again, and that got me thinking: Is this actually improving or reducing password safety? Especially bringing this topic to spotlight today is a recent password leak from ...

Google Nexus One review: Is it a superphone?

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

For the past few days I've had the chance to use the Google Nexus One as my phone. Now it's time for the bottom line: Is this phone great? How does it compare to some other smartphones, such as the Palm Pre or Nokia's N900? Read on for a thorough look ...

Benefits of Developing With Microsoft AND Open Source

Friday, February 26th, 2010

The Internet seems to be the latest battleground for the computer age-old struggle between Microsoft and open source solutions. For some reason, many web developers like to engage in holy wars over various web site hosting solutions and development platforms, fiercely defending their beloved vendor's suite of products. They battle ...