Weblog
How's the weather in Helsinki right now? [General]
The Helsinki Testbed project has launched a local weather service plug-in for Google Earth. The plug-in shows near real-time weather data gathered from the Testbed network.
Updates [General]
I've been super-lazy lately with my blog. That's not going to change any time soon but here's some quick updates.
Enter Vaisala [Work]
I started my new job as a Web Marketing Specialist at Vaisala Instruments last Monday. It has been interesting three days trying to get up to speed wi...
Leaving Nemein [Nemein]
Today was my last day as Nemein Consultant. The past four years I've been working for Nemein have been anything but dull. I wonder if a single day has...
Aegir-1.0.3 and NTLM authentication [Midgard]
The Aegir CMS is unable to do single sign-on with NTLM authentication. This is due to the fact that Aegir natively uses Nemein_Authentication library,...
EFI goes to MidCOM [Nemein]
The European Forest Institute has published their MidCOM powered site yesterday. The new site benefits heavily from the component architecture, and...
It's a boy! [General]
Our firstborn son came into the world on 30th January 2005 06:52 GMT+2. Big enough news for me to take two weeks of paternity leave. We stayed at the ...
Midgard on MAMP [Midgard]
I decided to try out MAMP as the base for my Midgard testbed. The idea came from Bergie's blog post, that I was browsing for notes on Midgard on Mac O...
Hardware upgrades made hard [General]
After my wife complained about me staying up all night playing Counter-Strike, and the CPU fan keeping her awake, I had to do something. Yes, get a be...
Net.nemein.supportview - new component for OpenPSA integration [Midgard]
The New Year started as busy as the last one ended. I also had my first MidCOM component on my todo list, and decided to begin the year with that. Net...
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year [Midgard]
The title says it all. Have a good holidays, although there's all too few days off this year. While I'm at it, I should probably take a peek into the...
Using TownPortal as an extranet wizard [Nemein]
We've been thinking how to keep our client extranet pages up-to-date and in somewhat standardized condition. Currently we have opened some ViewerGroup...
Midgard on RHEL3 [Midgard]
Here's a short tip where to look if you have trouble running Midgard on RedHat Enterprise Linux (or similar). I had spent hours just wondering what th...
A new toy [General]
Finally I got myself a new tech-toy. This time a pretty useful one too - a Sony Ericsson K700i accompanied with a Jabra BT250.The reasons behind this ...
Installing Midgard on a virtual server [Midgard]
Today I had the privilege to install Midgard on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 running on a VMWare virtual server. The hardware platform itself was a h...
Article Symlinks with MidCOM [Midgard]
I can't remember how many times I've done this patch to one of our clients in order to maintain their Aegir-legacy article symlinks. Yet, every other...
Google oddity [General]
I was looking at my sites' Webalizer statistics and noticed something really funny.
Firefox 1.0 and HTMLArea [Midgard]
After receiving some complaints from our clients that the MidCOM's WYSIWYG editor's link editing doesn't work, I took a look with Firefox 1.0 and fou...
Being busy [Midgard]
Lately, I've found it hard to find time for blogging. I guess the real reason is that I've done nothing worth to mention - just regular MidCOM site b...
KY goes Midgard [Nemein]
The student union of the Helsinki School of Economics has just opened their new Web site. The new site is run on Midgard CMF and powered by the MidCOM...
List-style-image and IE [General]
We've wrestled with a very annoying CSS problem on one of our client's site. The fact that the problem occurs only on some, very random, versions of t...
Midgard Gathering Sweden, Sunday [Midgard]
Day three of the Midgard Gathering Sweden is well on it's way. Today's official agenda was very relaxed. We had agreed to have Robert's xhtml presen...
Midgard gathering in progress [Midgard]
Midgard gathering Sweden is well in progress. Earlier today we visited the office of the AnyKey Solutions, the company that will be hosting the gathe...
Hacker Gotchi [General]
Today I finally found some time to do myself a hacker gotchi. With some image selection help from Bergie and co I ended up with the following image. ...
Sorting and filtering events [Midgard]
The other day, I was wondering how could a simple event listing take so long and how could it work so oddly? After some paper-aided code tracking I f...
Wierd behaviour in mgd_is_member [Midgard]
Today, I revisited some old code that I wrote over a year ago. I remember wrestling with a specific problem with a Midgard function, mgd_is_member(), couple times since then. Here's a quick how-to for other Midgard newbies.
Testing filesystem version of the MidCOM [Midgard]
Today I had the privilege to try out the brand new filesystem version of the MidCOM component architecture. This rather unusual Midgard development d...
Field naming in MidCOM schema [Midgard]
Today I found a rather interesting problem in MidCOM schema field naming. It's actually pretty silly, but worthy enough to take a short blog entry. Th...
Hunting for failing relocate() [Midgard]
I got a troubled call from one of our clients explaining that they couldn't create new articles in MidCOM AIS. A few interrogative questions and logi...
Offline blogging and online collaboration [General]
I tried two fantastic technologies today.
Datagard - Midgard administration made easy [Midgard]
Yesterday I took another look at the Datagard, a Midgard database administration tool. Here's my second impressions.
The first MidCOM component modification [Midgard]
I got to write some modifications to the net.nemein.organizations component. I've worked with the MidCOM core's WYSIWYG-editor (HTMLArea) but the components are really something different.
Changes in Life [General]
For past two weeks my life has seen some major (and not so major) changes.
HOW-TO: Mnogosearch for MidCOM powered sites [Midgard]
Here's a short how-to for deploying Mnogosearch search engine for MidCOM powered Web site.
Debugging HTMLArea-3.0-rc1 [Midgard]
Found some irritating little mischiefs in HTMLArea-3.0-rc1 that I previosly integrated to MidCOM AIS.
Upgrading HTMLArea in MidCOM [Midgard]
Yesterday, I finally took some time and upgraded the HTMLArea successfully in the MidCOM AIS. The HTMLArea-3.0-rc1 has been around since the end of February and the current CVS version has even more upgrades but seems to lack in stability. So, I opted for rc1.
Wireless freedom [General]
I've used to have wireless access around me. What happens if it's not there?
War Kayaking [General]
Found this one also from the Slashdot - the great source for geek wisdom.
The coolest PC ever? [General]
Some people are not happy with their regular PCs and case modding seems to be very common nowadays. Then there are some who won't be satisfied by modding just the case - they must have the whole thing.
CSS Wonderland [General]
I've been doing several CSS driven layouts lately. It's starting to pay off and really prove its point.
Graduation day [General]
I just graduated from the Espoo-Vantaa Institute of Technology as Bachelor of Engineering, Digital Information Provision programme.
Home Space Opened [General]
My personal home space has now opened in a brand new domain.
