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Growing to Program
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Learning programming is never-ending journey. This is my path.
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CV Update: Master of Science

Our electronic student record says Im a Master of Science, and why wouldnt we believe it. CV has been updated accordingly. My updated education:Master of Science | University of Eastern Finland,...

22 may 12

Louhigames role-playing game x status

We are coding a role-playing game for Android at Louhigames. This is what has happened during the last four weeks.First we added line of sight and pathfinding algorithms.This was rewarding and made t...

21 may 12

Merrell Trail Glove

Finnish tip: Tänä viikonloppuna Merrellin Trail Glove oli Intersportissa 80€ (normaalihinnaksi merkitty 125€, alennuksessa 99€, ja siitä vielä 20% pois k-kortilla). First step towards barefoot r...

19 may 12

Short doThis 2.02 usability inspection

Ive got feedback about the usability of doThis 2.01. It is summarized in the following picture:doThis 2.02 usability inspectionAdd item is not quite clear enough. It is better than it used to be, but...

16 may 12

Notch one of the few successful game artists?

I still feel that the question about games being art or not is pointless and not even interesting. However when I was reading Notchs tweets, it somehow felt like he could be a game artist.Of course h...

16 may 12

Points (CV update: Masters thesis)

It takes 300 points to become a master of science. I have 304 of them, so it seems theyll be kicking me out very soon. Recently I got my masters thesis accepted. Topic was "Assessment and improve...

15 may 12

Im starting game development for Android

Ive started programming a role playing game for Android.Role playing game XThis is still on the level of "proof of concept" or mock-up. We are doing this under the name of Louhigames and its ...

24 apr 12

Swan GUI evolution

Swan is acronym from Scientific Writing AssistaNt, and it helps you to write better scientific texts. The idea is to paste your text to the software (title, abstract, introduction, conclusion) and pr...

23 apr 12

!doThis 2.0

Time for the weekly !doThis update! This time the user interface has been renewed entirely. Before and after screenshots:!doThis 1.51 -> 2.0 user interface updateFree Android app on Google Play: T...

19 apr 12

Potilastietojärje stelmien käytettävyys 2010

This is about the usability of health care systems (EPR) in Finland. You can read an English summary of the usability study in the end of the article in this link.Potilastietojärjestelmien käytettävy...

18 apr 12

Now in Google Currents

Google Currents became available outside the US and now also this blog can bee found from there. Currents is a reader app for news and other internet content you want to be following and it displays ...

12 apr 12

Programmers confessions (case doThis 1.5)

It is very easy to find excuses for not to test software properly. This time it was "its too complicated as I would need to install older versions and then update and then test, and everything se...

11 apr 12

ISO 9241-210 (ISO 13407:n korvaaja)

This is in Finnish about ISO 9241-210 (former ISO 13407). You can read about that for example in Userfocus or by getting a copy of the standard from ISO.Huomasin gradua tehdessäni, että ISO 1340...

29 mar 12

doThis user experience improved

Screen captures from the latest (1.44) version.Ive highlighted the "done" button and removed an option to choose whether the notification should be re-added when the device is restarted. If y...

25 mar 12

doThis (Android app)

Ive been having fun with Android lately. I already published Lovefication earlier (see blog post) and now its time to tell about doThis.Android Mar... Google Play is full of todo-list applications. H...

22 mar 12

Lovefication for Android

I made my first Android application to Android Market, go check it out: What is does is simply to add a heart with a message to the Android notification area, as seen in the picture:LoveficationThe m...

26 feb 12

Lautapeli: Pohjanmaan Valtias

This post is about a Finnish board game "Pohjanmaan Valtias". I believe its not available in English.Pohjanmaan Valtias on uusi suomalainen lautapeli, joka nimensä mukaisesti kuvaa taistelua ...

29 jan 12

Case Mates Barely There for Galaxy S Plus (GT-I9001)

I bought Barely There cover by Case Mate for my Galaxy S Plus for some extra protection:Barely There backBarely There frontIt really is barely there, it is slim and quite unnoticeable. The surface is...

25 jan 12

Allow full RSS

I understand that people need to get visitors to their site, but it makes reading their posts more complicated. It would be much easier to read the whole post using RSS reader on my Android and open ...

23 jan 12

The language of the site

From now on Ill be using both Finnish and English here, even though its stupid to mix multiple languages inside one website. However most of the people come here using Google so theyll probably not f...

22 jan 12

My Samsung Galaxy S Plus

(In Finnish about the prize: Galaxy S Plussaa saa DNAlta hintaan 9 € / kk x 24. Ainakin aiemmin sai myös puolimegaisen netin 24 kk sopparilla 2 € / kk, mutta en tiedä onko tuo enää voimassa.)I finall...

18 jan 12

Python test file creation

filenames = open(TestingFilenames.txt, r)for line in filenames:        newFile = open(line.strip(), w)        newFile.write(line)        ne...

23 dec 11

An article about Java Webstart

We have needed to work with Java Webstart with Louhigames first game, Bystanders. One helpful person linked me a good article about the technology and I wanted to post it here so I can find it later:...

17 nov 11

Bystanders gameplay demo updated

We (Louhigames) released the Bystandes gameplay demo on Monday and luckily we have already received some useful feedback we can base the future development on. We made some changes already.We improve...

15 nov 11

Working with the Bystanders gameplay demo

Louhigames has finally released the first gameplay demo of Bystanders. We announced over a month ago that we would release something playable, and luckily we were able to keep that promise. The demo ...

14 nov 11

Weblog usability by Nielsen

Jakob Nielsen has written a text about top ten design issues in blogs: http://www.useit.com/al ertbox/weblogs.html Ill go through them to see how I could improve mine. Nielsen has some good arguments ...

22 oct 11

Still busy

Lately Ive been coding the first game of Louhigames and I also started doing my masters thesis about usability. We decided to release a playable demo of the LLD on 14th November 2011! We dont know ex...

14 oct 11

Louhigames

Ive been busy with a new project, Louhigames. This is my (and my friends) latest effort to really start creating games. We use Java to build small games that are graphically simple, but have some new...

24 sep 11

VisualVM - Profiling Java applications

Did some Googling this morning to find a proper Java profiler to be used with Eclipse and found VisualVM. I didnt know I had it already, since nowadays it comes with your JDK. If you have relatively ...

19 aug 11

Firesoft on other sites

I made a page for Firesoft that you can access through the menu or by clicking here. Firesoft is now available also at Softpedia and Softoxi.

12 aug 11

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