Yesterday Monster.fi has received an interesting job listing. I wonder if this is real or some elaborate publicity stunt or if Monster.fi has been owned…
In case it is and Stream Partner Oy or Monster pulls the ad, I made screen shots:
Update: (10:57 am)
Seems that they pulled the ad. It’s no longer visible in Monster.fi search. If someone hears what it was about, let me know, ok… =)
We just got back from Nousiainen. My wife’s cousin and his wife were celebrating their 30th birthdays (their birthdays are really close to one another so they tend to throw a common party).
I have to say that I had very good time even though I didn’t really know others from there except my wife, her cousin and his wife. It was really easy to talk to pretty much all of these people and I even managed to be quite sober through the party (I think I tend to sometimes compensate some social pressure with alcohol, maybe =).
It’s fun to know that I can still be around people who are pretty much completely strange to me and still manage to have a lot of fun. I think I have more proof to contradict this than to prove it. I would like to consider myself a social person but in reality I haven’t had that much contacts outside my immediate group of friends lately. This was refreshing for a change.
I have lately been writing a system in C++, which is a very refreshing experience after years and years of working with Java, Perl and PHP. Just like coming home. I guess what I am about to say applies to other languages too, but if you have ever written code of any considerable length and complexity in C++ you should know what I am talking about here.
Firstly what annoys me the most is that Java and most of these scripting languages - and languages originating from scripting languages - let you get pretty far in programming without really understanding the concept of pointers. Granted, it’s easier to code if you don’t really have to think about them, but even in languages where there is no direct concept of pointers I would argue that understanding the concept can make a difference when debugging and writing maintainable code.
Now, when moving from these languages to C++ environment, things get very ugly very fast. For everyone who is developing in C++ anything, I would suggest (among other useful resources) to read about const-correctness. Having spend a week hunting a single bug which would have been avoided if original author of a linked class would have used const modifier properly in the first place, I just had to say this. Grr.
Having an innocent looking PrintDebugInfo function which quietly modifies your supposed-to-be-hidden class members can really ruin your week.
Its almost the end of January and this is the first time it is actually snowing outside. This sight calms me a lot. This is what we are going to miss because of the climate change. Sigh.
Hello, you all who still are interested! Joker.iki.fi has been awfully silent lately. This is because other projects take quite a bit of my time and there’s busy times at work. The time I have for joker.iki.fi has mostly gone to the installing and trying out new content management software, Wordpress. Today, I decided to do the change. Hopefully you all have updated the RSS and ATOM feeds as the old site, located in http://joker.iki.fi/cms/ will cease to exist after next critical security bug is identified in the version of Drupal I’m using there.
Some of you may wonder why I changed from Drupal to Wordpress. There’s no one reason really for doing such a thing but multiple pros and cons for both CMSs. Most important, and completely subjective things are:
All of these things are my own subjective points of view - I don’t want to start a flamewar. Drupal is good but it’s just time that I try something else.
Ok. Now that that is clear, let me just say a few words about joker.iki.fi in general. Somewhere during the spring I plan to upgrade the joker.iki.fi server and I also have at least one free software project I’m working on that will be hosted (partly) from joker.iki.fi. So that’s something new.
Also, I have a lot of blogging to do and a lot of ideas that I want to do with the blog, so please bear with me. The main focus of the blog will still be my life, technology, music, ranting, sports, arts and so on.
So again, stay tuned. And I hope you like the theme. I am a big fan of simplistic web pages and joker.iki.fi theme reflects this, as you can see.
