Open for Business

Oh, hello there. I’m Tobias Eriksson, the author of this site. As you can see, the blog is now “open” for you to read and enjoy. Mind your step though, there might be some bugs you can trip over (also some things not having been implemented yet).

So, what’s the deal?

This simply an outlet for me, where I can write about programming and related subjects. It’s also a place where I can show off my work (when I get something done). It seems to me that everyone these days have a blog, portfolio or whatever. So as of now, so do I. If you’ve stumbled upon this domain before, you might know that this is not my first iteration of this site. I’ve had a range of stuff here, most of them blogs that never took off. That’s mostly because they didn’t have any focus (also, I never liked the themes that I used). This time around, I’ve hacked together my own theme. It’s fairly minimal, but I see no point having a fancy site when the most advanced things I will be posting are images and code, perhaps a video or two. If I have something to show off, it’s my code.

What projects do you hack on then?

Sadly, I don’t really have any projects going these days, except for this site. My time is usually spent coding on university assignments. When I’m not doing that, I usually have other means of relaxing that hacking on code.

If I came up something fun, or found a project I could contribute to, I would probably spend quite a bit of my free time doing that. See, I’m a believer in open source software, and I would really like to get involved in such a project.
I guess I could fairly easily, lots of the software I use is open source (my main work machine is an Acer Travelmate 8371 running Arch Linux, they work awesome together). I’m subscribed to some development lists, but I never seem to be able to take the leap and get into the code and send patches. I should get on that…

Anyways, I thank you if you decided to follow this blog, and I hope you’ll enjoy the read.

About me

Who are you?

I’m Tobias Eriksson. I live in Stockholm, Sweden with my girlfriend and a whole lot of computers. My earliest programming experiences started in the early 2000′s when I for some reason thought it would be a good idea to start programming in C++. That didn’t work out well (I’m not sure I even managed to write a proper “Hello, world!” program), so I gave up on programming for a long time because it was obviously the most boring thing you could do.

In recent years, however, as I came into contact with the free and open source software movements (then in the form of a brief visit to the land of FreeBSD), programming started to interest me once again. At this time I also started attending high school, where I learned XHTML and (some) PHP. Programming classes in high school also introduced me to Java, although I never really bothered to learn it at the time. As of 2008, I’m attending computer science at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. It’s been there where I have come to love programming.

What do you do?

As I mentioned, I’m a student. I attend lectures, do (a lot) of math and programming. I try to spend my most free time with my girlfriend, although my computers take up a large portion of my free time. I’ve been a gamer since I started using computers in 1997, so gaming is my primary means of entertainment when not programming.

Why do you blog?

Everyone these days have a website, so naturally I have one as well. This blog is mostly a result of me needing a simple way to have dynamic content (WordPress is great for that). I’ve had several iterations of this blog, but all of them lacked content and focus. This will be purely about programming and related subjects. If you want to know what I had for lunch, follow me on Twitter.