Category: Work
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End of An Era
Today I gave a talk on the EU Web Accessibility Directive at WordCamp Turku. The slides to my talk are on SlideShare, but a blog post summarising the talk will be up here next week. Today was also my last day at Zeeland Family. I joined H1 in 2012 as the third employee. It was…
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Same Job, New Family
No, not that kind of new family. Our company H1 – my employer – was acquired today by Zeeland Family, one of the most versatile marketing agencies in Finland. Me and my four colleagues Aki, Jenny, Marco and Tomi will be joining their digital team and strengthening the company’s WordPress expertise. I’m pretty excited about…
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A European WordCamp
Last night I got home at 3:00 from the first ever multi-nation WordCamp, WordCamp Europe 2013 in Leiden, The Netherlands. The weekend was packed with many inspiring talks, but above all it was a unique chance to meet other developers and designers from around Europe and the world. Based on discussions I had during the…
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An Introduction for WordCamp Europe
Hello WordCamp Europe attendees! My name’s Daniel and I live in Tampere, Finland. After seeing similar posts by Rhys, Nuno and Jeremy, I thought I’d steal the idea and introduce myself to the WordCamp Europe croud in blog form. Hope you don’t mind. 🙂 So here goes: I’m the main translator for the Finnish version…
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Sublpress: Manage WordPress Sites in Your Text Editor
Sublpress is a new extension for Sublime Text by Nic Dienstbier that makes it possible to manage your WordPress site (or multiple sites) in the editor. Currently you can edit settings, create and edit posts and manage taxonomy terms. All features can be easily accessed via the Command Palette. I tested Sublpress in both Sublime…
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My Dev Setup, part 4: Version Control and Deployments with WordPress
This post sheds some light on my development and deployment workflow for WordPress client projects.
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Staying Connected, Working from Home
Working from home is great, especially when starting each day would otherwise mean a two-hour train journey to Helsinki. On the downside I sometimes feel disconnected from my colleagues, since I only see them in person about once or twice a month. Of course we have video conferences when there’s a matter we need to…
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My Dev Setup, part 3: Browser Testing
Some years ago browser testing meant just testing in Firefox, Safari and possibly Opera, and cursing and testing in IE6. Good standards support in current browsers has made development easier on one hand, but more complex than ever on the other hand with the demands of responsive design, the rise of mobile and websites themselves…
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My Dev Setup, part 2: Web Development Apps for Mac OS X
In the second post of my “set up” series, I’m listing some of the apps I use daily for web development. There are many tools available, and the specific ones you need will inevitably vary based on the kind of development you do, the languages you use, size of team etc. I do mostly front-end…
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One year at H1
Yesterday marked one full year working for my current employer, H1. Professionally, this has been perhaps the most interesting and rewarding time I’ve ever had, despite working most of my time from home. So big thanks to my colleagues Aki, Jaana and Marco!
Daniel Koskinen 