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Essays from February 2011

3 essays from February 2011

  1. Another job opportunity for 31337 h4x0rs that love testing!

    F-Secure is hiring! And they have some interesting positions as well. Check out this one: People who have experience in “SW Engineer in Test” type of a role. This is a fairly new role and not well established in Finland. The discipline is young and top notch professionals rare. An excellent niche to put yourself …

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  2. Job opportunity for awesome people in Tampere, Finland

    Our good friends at Leonidas are hiring. Not, not the chocolate people, the software people 😉 The company looks very interesting. I especially liked the “one week from idea to prototype” service they have. A true agile service! 🙂 Take a look at their web-site and check if you are one of the awesome people …

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  3. To all my friends and colleagues at Nokia, my contribution

    Without a doubt many of you have read the news about Nokia taking Windows Phone 7 as their main Smartphone platform. That decision by Nokia has a tremendous impact in my local software community: Finland. Nokia mobile phones (as it was known before) has always been a major employer of software development professionals in Finland …

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