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I am a huge hockey fan and I can't wait to watch the finals later today, with Sweden set to battle Finland for the Olympic gold. So why am I blogging about it here? Well, partially because it's Sunday and I like to post something a bit more light-hearted on weekends, but mostly because there is a strong connection between what interests me and these two Nordic countries. I've also heard both boast a large and enthusiastic community of ice hockey fans.
Sweden — Web Development
456 Berea Street. A blog by Roger Johansson, with a well-deserved reputation for upholding best practices and sharing techniques. A favorite of Web design and development blogrolls the world over.
RobertÂs talk. Robert Nyman is another rising Web development blogger. I visit his site often, and you should too. I'm also looking forward to meeting him at SXSW next month.
Autistic Cuckoo. Sadly, Tommy Olsson is no longer contributing to his blog. But he hasn't taken it down and there are plenty of excellent articles still there to study and bookmark.
Finland — Internet Technology
Linux. Created by Linus Torvalds while a student at University of Helsinki, Finland, Linux has made such an impact on computing, and especially its use as a Web Server platform, that it's hard to say what the landscape of the Web would be like without it. I work from dozens of Linux hosts, along with the equally popular (at least in terms of Web hosting) FreeBSD open-source operating system.
IRC. A multi-user, instant messaging/chat system created by Jarkko Oikarinen, IRC is used by open-source teams the world over. Some of the better known channels are provided by freenode, including developers chatting about Apache, many Linux distributions, MySQL, the W3C, Wikipedia, and countless others. Probably the best known of open-source IRC channels are those hosted by the Mozilla IRC Network, and many users rely on the Chatzilla Firefox extension to connect.
SSH. The Secure Shell protocol and family of client programs was first developed by Tatu Ylönen at the Helsinki University of Technology. The OpenBSD project followed up a few years later with a free implementation, OpenSSH, which you will find pre-installed on all of the operating systems previously mentioned (and many others). Anyone still using telnet to connect to remote servers is living in the dark ages.
So, in a way I guess it's kind of like the the right brains against the left. Update: I've just heard that Sweden won, which is good since that's who I was rooting for. Not for the reasons you're probably thinking, rather because I'm a huge Red Wings fan and about half the Swedish team is made up of some of my favorite players. But I don't want to hear anything more—because of the time difference here in the US the game hasn't been televised yet!
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