After some false starts, I finally found success in my Physical Chemistry research from unexpected direction, when I started gradually...

After my 1995 summer-work in Helsinki University Physical Chemistry Lab, professor Lauri Halonen gave me a full-time job as research- and...

In 1995, after two years of studies, I got a summer-job at University of Helsinki Laboratory of Physical Chemistry to develop Molecular...

In 1989, when I was 16 years old, I got as a christmas gift a Finnish translation of James Gleicks popular science book "Chaos" (original...

I got my first paid job as software developer at age of 16 in the summer of 1989. This was at the time in history when Personal Computers...

Programming is like building with LEGOs but with infinite number of blocks and lightning fast servant to perform the repetitive parts of...

Comparing the programming style of my 1987 Commodore 64 Basic Roulette-game to a modern functional-reactive re-implementation with...

Earlier I was introducing the old Commodore 64 "Ruletti" game I wrote in 1987 and the new Ruletti-reframe webapp-version I made with...

I re-created my small Commodore 64 game with modern technologies to get a stunning reminder of how much the available technologies have...

The little programs and games I wrote for VIC-20 and later Commodore 64 in the 1980's were eventually all lost. All, except one: A small...

How I learned that what matters to me is using my skills to write meaningful software with good people - not what legal entity ultimately...

Hundreds of programming languages have been born and died during the decades since 1940's. Some created by comitees, many by lone heroes,...

How the right gift at the right time started my life-long interest in programming Me, my grandmother Elsa and grandfather Oppe in 1980s...