I am Mikko Ohtamaa. This is my blog and this blog will tell you how we can make the life of humankind better with new open source technology.

I will also post some random crap here. In the end, most people are in the net for the random crap, but that’s how the technology works.

If you are looking for more formal story please see References page.

What I do

When I am not buildint the next greatest web site or mobile application I chat and argue with other hackers in IRC. I tweet in Twitter and G+ too, but in the end IRC is still the best.

I travel a lot. I take all sorts of hitman jobs where the hacker saves the world by typing text on a vintage computer terminal very fast – with or without Hale Berry as co-actor.

I do some sports. I run around the world. I think kickboxing is the best thing you can do your pants on.

What I did

I was born in a little country side village in Finland. My youth was full of cows, Super Mario, swimming in summer river and books from a local library.

I like open source. I started with Slackware 3.0 when floppies where still the dominant medium. But then I become old and thought that 15 years of desktop Linux is enough for one lifetime.

I also code. I started with GWBASIC 3.2, advanced to Pascal, C, Assembly, C++, Java until one day I found that Python is the best programming language in the world. I did also some PHP and C#, but I was young and needed the money.

I started working with mobile services 1998. By then, they were called ringtones. Then this WAP thing came in with Nokia 7110, having fabulous 4 kB of space for a single page. If you went over that you crashed the phone.

I worked for iobox. We made some people rich and exchanged 200 MEUR for few ringtones. Soon after that the company was shutdown. Then I worked for Nokia and a lot of its market value was lost. I worked for MyOrigo, building iPhone as far as back 2004, but then the company bankcrupted. Now I work for myself. Above me are only the god and the justice system of Finland, just to reduce the mutual damage.

I was stalking the domain name opensourcehacker.com many years until some domain hamster  let it go on GoDaddy.com.

What I am going to do

I am going to build the most awesome HTML5 websites for you and your friends. I also hope to technology easier for people through improving usability, newcomer learning process and mentoring people on software development.