The Butt Ugly Weblog

Who am I?

Hello, I am Janne Jalkanen, and this site is my web log (see the BloggerCode for me).

I currently work as a Chief Engineer at SOK, a part of the S-group. However, I am writing as a private person, and nothing written on this blog should be considered an official opinion of the company. I represent myself, not the corporation. (And please don't bother them about me, either. ;-)

Bio

Janne is a tinkerer, dreamer, dad and a hardcore geek. He has worked in the past from industries big and small: from a Virtual Reality researcher to testing code for spacecrafts; from doing corporate strategy to Nokia to being the CTO of an internet start-up. Right now Janne is working as the Chief Engineer at SOK, the largest Finnish retail company. Janne is sometimes referred as the godfather of Near Field Communications for his role in driving the technology into the Nokia portfolio and in standardization. Janne is also a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and has been managing open source projects on and off for the past ten years. On his spare time he's a dad to two children, and enjoys playing go and role playing games, reading, and driving a bicycle.

A high-rez image JanneJalkanen/Janne.jpg. Credit: Kai Widell.

If you get a strange urge to talk to me, you can catch me from the following places:

• Email: jalkanen+jspwiki@ecyrd.com (preferred)
• Mastodon: https://universeodon.com/@ecyrd
• Friendica: ecyrd@capybara.community
• Bluesky: @ecyrd.com
• Threads: https://www.threads.net/@ecyrd
• Github: http://github.com/jalkanen
• Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/janne-jalkanen/0/a/a0 (Please note that I will only accept connections from people I actually know. You will need to have worked with me on something, where "work" is very loosely defined. A booze binge counts.)
• Phone: +358-50-ln(239). Use only seven first digits from the ln(). (Yes, this is a very geeky way of announcing your mobile phone number, but hey, consider it a challenge ;-)
• My GPG key

Some more, perhaps more descriptive things about me

Venture forth on these pages, but be prepared for a sudden boredom attack:

• Twenty Questions - Music Style
• Some dumb tests I've taken over the years
• Why am I writing in English instead of Finnish - my native language?

Writings

Sometimes I get this urge to blorp out words in a random order. Whenever my SEPU (Self-Esteem Protection Unit) crashes, I put them on the internet:

• On resigning - thoughts on when and why giving up is the better choice
• Permalinks considered harmful - why they just don't cut it right now
• Software Commoditization - why Linux will rule in the end
• Theory Of Social Software
• HydraWiki - what we really, really want Wikis to be
• Let's Face It - the most annoying phrase in English
• Wikis look ugly - or do they? A rebuttal of a meme.
• We Lied To You - a letter to the media industry
• Debugging conversations - why it's not always good to say "but..."

Kirjoitelmia

Jotain olen kirjoittanut myös suomeksi, pääasiassa blogeista:

• Mikä on blogi - lyhyt essee aiheesta
• Miksi välitän bloggauksesta
• Blogit ovat henkilökohtaisia

Events

Things that form a clear episode of my life: blogged, cut, edited and deep-fried for your viewing pleasure.

• Ropecon 2003
• Trip to Japan 2003
• Emerging Technology 2004

Stuff that I work on these days

• JSPWiki - an Open Source wiki tool. This site also runs JSPWiki, but in a slightly modified form.
• FinGo - A Finnish go wiki.
• Strange scientific experiments.
• Role playing games
• WikiIdeas
• Kultainen Kuukkeli 2003
• Priha - An Open Source JSR-170 (aka Java Content Repository) implementation.