Category: I've seen the world

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One year ago I got an employment as a junior developer. Since then I’ve learned quite much, especially things about working as a junior developer.

Things that might be useful:

  • If you have someone more experienced on the office who could review your code before launch, insist on that they do it. She or he can tell you how they would have done stuff (and things you have missed), you’ll learn tons from it. If you’re lucky you might even get a mentor you’ll be able to ask questions, and who’ll be glad to review your code.
  • Just because you just got hired doesn’t mean that you should stop reading. Continue to read, write and evaluate your methods. This is a way to keep the work funny and interesting as well. Never stop learning.
  • Take initiatives, ask around. Take the chances you get to get to know your team mates better.
  • Ask your team mates what they are doing, and why they are doing it that way. Question everything.
  • Write down the stuff that you learn and share with others who are, or will be in the same position.

And then we have a few optional things that I personally do:

  • I keep my desk clutter free. At my workplace, it’s not a requirement or anything, but I just like to be able to focus on the screen and the tasks ahead of me.
  • Always show up early, or at least in time. This is not a solid requirement at my work place either, but I like to show up early, and then leave early. I tend to do the heavy tasks in the morning, and more light weight tasks in the afternoon.
  • Be polite and generous with compliments, remember peoples names and details about their personal life. But don’t pretend to be interested if you’re not. Falsehood always shines through.
  • Do your work. You might find this point very obvious, but I’ve seen enough people showing up at work to just spend the time procrastinating.

Most of these things are common sense, but you’ll be surprised of how many who wouldn’t agree with them. The important point is that you deliver what you promised, and that you do it on time. When you work in teams of more experienced people and you get to work with different projects (both fresh and uh-oh-so-old-and-completely-idiotic) you learn the most important things. The small things that no one ever seem to cover in those books that you read, or that tutorial that you walked. You learn things that could only be learned through hard earned experience.

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Right now I’m chatting (that’s jabbering) with Pontus, my big little brother. He is right now in San Juan Del Sur, in Nicaragua and I’m in Stockholm. Every time I have a conversation in an instant with someone who’s so far away, I can’t just let it go. I find it amazing!

It’s just as with email. Do someone inspire you? Send them an email and ask your questions and send them your thanks! Oftenly they’ll have the time to answer it. It’s sweet, in the online world, everyone is just an email away.

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I remember faces as if they were different planets. One thing I’ve got a problem with though, is to remember names. One time, I was giving out free bread at a super market. Usually, several hundred different people passes me during such a day. Two weeks thereafter I stood at a different super market. All of a sudden, I recognized the person that was shopping from me.

“Hey, weren’t you at that super market, two weeks ago?”

“Yeah, why? Where you there as well?”

I was. This is how’s it been my entire life, more or less. I’t a mere intuition of recognition rather than a logic response. When I was younger, I was ashamed of this. I used to hate it when I recognized people when they didn’t recognize me. Now, I take it with ease. It’s nice to be able to remind people and of where we’ve met, so that we can work on deepening that bond (that then already exsist!).

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A summary of what I’ve been doing, and what’s up.
I:

  • started playing the trumpet again
  • travelled to Spain and back for vacation
  • watched season 1 and 2 of Lost
  • learned how to ride a longboard
  • learned some house dancing from Robert Söderström
  • destroyed one pair of jeans when bailing of my longboard
  • felt alive, in love, truly happy and in alignment with the Universe
  • had some really good french fries with omelets
  • learned that it is hard to brake with a longboard
  • got extremely interested in working with The Company P, in the future. TODO –
  • learned how to play Advance Wars on Nintendo DS. Nice game!
  • longed for my family and friends on Gotland, and I visited them
  • enjoy my work, and I’m proud of it. Some time soon (when I’ve got the time) I will create a portfolio
  • hanged out with my elders in Spain. That was great, and I’m happy that I have spent time with them. They truly are wonderful people, just as my parents.
  • have learned that it’s not dangerous to get personal
  • am deeply in love, and it’s just wonderful <3 :) !

    • The next week I’m going to Danslägret pÃ¥ FÃ¥rö (Dance camp at FÃ¥rö) which means lots of fun, and lots of offline-time!

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Our tent

When I and Hanna was traveling around Scotland in the summer ’05 we met a strange couple of police officers.
They approached us as we were setting up our tent in the towns national park (yes, it actually is legal in Scotland).
“Heya! It’s totally OK that you camp here, in our fine town. Do ya mind if we ask how ya got here?”
“No, sir! We hitch-hiked here from Oban, with one of your fine politicians. A very nice old man.”
“Oh is that so? Well, we just wanted to welcome you to our town, but with a little warning!
The youth here is quite messy, adn sometimes they even stay up until 01:00 o’clock!
So, please be careful and keep an eye on yer tent”
“Why, what do ya think they will do?”
“Put it on fire, hit you, rob you, rape you… They can do whatever fucking crime there is.”

This actually frightened us.
Stay up late? Who DOESN’T?
We decided that we would find the youth of this very small town.
And so we did.

When we met them, they were burning some tires and cones, getting hammered with vodka and smoked some of that brown.
We approached them with a smile, introduced ourselves as drifters from Sweden.
“Where?”
“Ya know about Henrik Larsson? He’s a friend of ours!”
The last line is always a bit risky. Sometimes the Scots are fans of the Celtics, and sometimes they’re not.
“HENRIK LARSSON!?!?! HE’S OUR BEST PLAYER! Ya wanna drink?”

We talked to them about the police, and soon found out about the ongoing war between them.
“Yeah, you see. Every weekend it’s the same. We get hammered and the police beat us, steal our drinks and smokes and drive us home. We always fight them back, the best we can. Hey, by the way, what’s the price for a fiveish in Sweden…?”

They were no threat, and never was.
The only threat was the mind of those police who abused them every weekend.