Welcome
Posted by Jesper | Filed under Apple, Code, Featured, Life, Productivity
Welcome to the very first post on jesperrasmussen.com. I’m very excited about this, and I hope in time you’ll be too. To start off, I’ll explain a bit about the sites purpose and history:
Back in 1999, I purchased my very first domain. It was called highonpixels.dk , and acted as my personal playground at the time. During the first couple of years, I focused a lot on webdesign and usability, and the website was my first adventures into creating webpages. Alot has happened since then, I’ve matured, gotten a couple of different jobs, and over the years my website faded into the background.
I rarely had the time to update the site, my friends started poking me for more content and new layouts etc., but in the end I just didn’t have the drive for updating a website anymore. Working as a webdeveloper on a fulltime-basis for clients will do that to you, trust me ;)
So what changed ? Well, during the last year or so, I’ve regained a lot of the enthusiasm regarding the web, and the technologies surrounding it. Another thing that has happened, is that I just recently acquired this domain. For the last couple of years it’s been occupied by another danish guy with the same name, and I’ve tried to capture it a couple of times without success. However, in December 2008, magic happened. The domain was released, and I put a couple of hosting-companies on the case of capturing it for me, which happened around Christmas (yay, best christmaspresent for myself ever!).
One of the things I’ve had a lot of advantages from online, has been technical guides. Everything from setting up virtualhosts on a Mac, over learning BASH-scripting to hacking my Xbox to allow it to be a multimedia-player. All of these experiences has helped me a lot, but sometimes I see myself googling for the same themes over and over again. And everytime I need a guide I have to find it again, and hope the site I’m looking for is still available. Initially I thought about running my own Wiki for the guides that I need, but I figure someone else could probably benefit from my mistakes and experiences.
So I’ve decided to launch a blog-like site with those exact subjects. The site will contain guides for most of everything I come into contact with. Expect guides involving Linux/Unix/Mac maintenance, Javascript, MySQL, PHP architecture and development patterns, as well as my personal thoughts, ideas and tips.
Anyway, welcome once more, I will try to make your stay as pleasant as possible.
Tags: welcome
April 8th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Hej Jesper
Tillykke med dit nye domæne.
Jeg har også forsøgt at få fat i det, men du vandt over mig. Jeg forsøgte at købe det fra et af de hong Kong firmaer der hijackede det efter at Pro BMX’eren Jesper Rasmussen opgav domænet. De ville dog have det der svarede til omkring 9.000 kr. for at overdrage det. Ustyrligt! Så jeg takkede nej. Håber ikke du måtte betale prisen…
Mange hilsner herfra.
-JR