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Setting up a new company

Danne — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:37:50 +0000

In July, after another few months in Spain as a PHP consultant for a European debt collection company, I have been trudging along with my family in Kalmar. I am still doing consultancy work as a PHP developer and mostly for the very same company. It’s a great opportunity to work with PHP in a financial context where accuracy and quality is important. But the last couple of months I have also been busy setting up a new company as Artamus AB is investing in my Swedish event guide Evenemang.se. This means more time to spend on coding PHP and less time needed to spend on marketing and SEO.

I really look forward to the coming year with excitement.

Recent activity…

Danne — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:53:20 +0000

Busy is good – but not being too busy. Recently I feel like I having been a bit too busy. A long time now me and my partner have been working on a new Swedish event guide. Completely written in Zend Framework, using MySQL as database and Sphinx as full text search engine. These tools are what I use normally nowadays while working on our own projects. The site has recently been launched as a beta in the spirit of release early/release often policy I have. The site is not near finished but releasing this early have already changed a few of our initial assumptions. So releasing early is good even though it sometimes can be hard to change the structure of a public website without getting in to trouble somehow.

Currently I’m also on a three month contract ending June 30th where I work three days a week with a European debt collection system in Fuengirola, Spain. I have been involved in the project every now and then for the past two years now. Fun and very interesting – but also challenging – as we’re a small team creating a complex system integrating many very different external systems (ranging from newly designed SOAP services to old COBOL systems to Windows bookkeeping applications. All in PHP of course. Beginning of July I’ll have some vacation and then we’ll just have too see what comes up.

So I thought I’d throw in an update of Wordpress and a new theme here on my blog as well… about time.

I have moved

Danne — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:38:21 +0000

I have been away from blogging awhile. Life has been really busy lately and I have sold my house and moved, with my family, to Fuengirola in Spain. Hopefully now that daily life is again back to normal I’ll blog a bit more. Maybe I’ll talk a bit more about daemons, asynchronous I/O and CodeIgniter as my current contract includes those topics.

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