Lauhakari.com

WinPhone 7series – Watch it revealed at MWC 2010

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:12:06 +0000

Unlike many of my friends and colleagues, I am not an Apple fanboy. Actually I’m more of a Microsoft fan-boy, allthough not really that either, but more so than apple. So it’s not surprising I’m looking forward to Microsofts keynote at MWC2010 in Barcelona where they will reveal the new Windows Phone 7 series.

Well, after that presentation… I WANT ONE!!!

Help Haiti and it’s people

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:23:58 +0000

As you all may know, a hug earthquake hit Haiti a few days ago and thousands of people have been killed or lost their homes. In wake of the catastrophe many idiots for people have started fake donation sites and services to cash in on the people in Haiti.

If you’d like to contribute and help please visit Yele.com, a grassroots movement started by my great favorites, Wyclef Jean to aid Haitians. Yele needs your help now more than ever, so click the link below and please help Haiti and it’s people!!!

IMPORTANT: mail problem caused lost messages from site

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:46:47 +0000

Yes, well, I was away to Stockholm the past 2 days and off course I had problems with my mail and the contact-form on the site. All is fixed and good now, but if you did send me a message through the form Monday or Tuesday, there is unfortunately a big chance I did not receive it.

So I’m sorry if I didn’t answer you, but please do send me a new message and I will get back to you =)

Siis, olin Tukholmassa viimeiset 2 päivää ja tietenkin minulle tuli ongelmia e-postin ja contact-formin kanssa. Kaikki on ok ja toimii taas, mutta jos olet lähettänyt minulle postia lomakkeen kautta maanantaina tai tiistaina, on valitettavasti suuri mahdollisuus että en ole saanut sitä.

Joten olen pahoillani jos en vastaa sinulle, mutta lähetä minulle uusi viesti ja vastaan teille pian! =)

A.L.A Webworkers survey 2009

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:40:42 +0000

I just completed this years survey over at A List Apart.

Every year they do a survey for people who work with making websites to check up on what we know, trends, work situation and so on and so on. So if your a student or working with web related stuff in any way, head over and take the survey!

Googlebots view of your site

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:08:28 +0000

I don’t know if this has been around for awhile or not, haven’t logged into Webmaster Tools for some time.
But anyways I just noticed a ‘new’ link in the Google Webmaster Tools menu, Labs. If you click on Labs to open the sub menu you’ll get three options, the first being “Fetch as Googlebot“.
Fill in the url of the page you want to check and within a minute you’ll receive the page just as Googlebot sees it.

Fresh new website for the new year

admin — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:30:19 +0000

Aaaaaah, so I finally finished the new site, allthough not totally 100%. Still have some information to fill out about the different projects and jobs I’ve done.

But I’m really really happy with the new look. Even though I did like the old one, and tried to to make a new version of but then found other inspirations and so it is now a lot brighter and fresher !

Lauhakari.com v.1

The site now rests comfortably on Wordpress, which I’m loving more and more to work with. Initially i was going to code the theme by myself from scratch, but while browsing for inspiration and tips I got stuck for a theme from Arcsin I really fell for. So, instead of re-inventing the wheel, I decided to modify the ‘simple-organisation‘-theme found on his site.

I’ll propably release my version of the theme to all you in due time, still have some tiny quirks I will fix, tune and change. You know how it is, you’re never done :s I tried to add some subtle designs elements that you might not notice at first, but makes the experience a lot nicer.

I did not go the HTML 5 route, not yet, but I did use some CSS3 elements, like border-radius for rounded corners. All of you Using IE, the site will be just a tiny bit less appealing for you, Sorry! Haven’t used that much javascript either, allthough got some ideas for things I want to incorporate in the near future. And off course, what more perfect place to try stuff out than ones own site.

I’m hoping to keep the blog alive and kicking now with the new site and wordpress. I still have the swedish blog left and as that was going to be my main focus for blogging about web related stuff, because there are so many english already, you should add it to your reader also (yes I’m on a mighty self promotion journey here).

Well I’d love some comments on the new site and/or any bugs you find, yes yes there might some. It’s my own site not a clients , no worries *eeeehm*

First Adobe AIR app. – FeedFetcher

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:26:36 +0000

Yees, I have completed the first version of my first Adobe AIR application ever. You could say it’s in an alpha/beta stage. It can be run but there is some functionality that is not implemented yet.

It is so far a simple feed reader, which announces when there are new posts. It checks with specied intervals if there are new entries, if so, it plays a sound and shows an alert box, and the windows gets focus (if it is minimized).
Features that are coming include, saving the feeds, follow multiple feeds simultaneously and choose the update speed.
(and also a brand new Design!)

Well, want to try it – get it!