Some definitions

Hi,

It's time to clarify the story behind the name of this blog. As you can guess, tunkkaus is a Finnish word. The direct translation of 'tunkkaus' is that someone is using a jack (tunkki = jack) to lift a car before changing its tyre.

However, when talking with other software engineering professionals, the word 'tunkkaus' may have an another meaning. When I say that I'm going to 'tunkata' the software somehow, it means that I'm going to develop the software, usually with some exotic solutions. These solutions may be marvellous or spaghetti or something just plain normal. Usually the word has a little bit negative tone when somebody says it. However, it can have also a positive tone.

Thus, tunkkaus is the way to go!

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Greetings!

Hello folks!

Here is some background about me: I'm a software engineer and a computer science student from Aalto University Finland.

Coding is my passion - every commit I make I want to be the perfect one. I love beautiful code and genious solutions. I started my programming "career" when I was 12 years old. My first language was a BASIC language, CoolBasic. After that I moved on to C++ world and making games for my fun. By that time, C++ was the best language ever... at least in my opinion. That was until I discovered C# (I think it was .NET 3.0) which leaded me into carbage collected world. Java was the next one to learn. I wasn't so interested about Java when I begun my school at Aalto, but after a while I started to like it too...

I've always considered myself as a backend developer. That was what I said to my boss when I started my work in ICT cosulting company about two years ago. However, work challenges leaded me into Grails and dynamic programming. WOW! I must say that Grails/Groovy was the thing. Now I can't even think about making software without funcional languages. I've found frontend more and more interesting. Thanks to my collegue, I discovered Coffeescript which also is awesome! I must say that my "backend dream" is inevitably slipping towards front. Thus, I'll most likely cover some CoffeeScript/Grails/Groovy stuff in this blog.

I've noticed in my work that you can do things in two ways: right and wrong. Thus, I try to make this world a little bit better by telling you some of my experiences from the software engineering field. I hope that my experiences and adversities will motive you readers to select the right choices and also make this world better by producing higher quality softwares.

Cheers,
Matti