Pinja Blog

Do you know what a Monday barometer is? No problem, neither does Google. I invented the term to express the rate of satisfaction of people with their current daily lives or jobs.

The annual Pinja LAN party started out with a bang last Friday in Jyväskylä with building our own computers. Everyone at Pinja can come hang out at the LAN party – this year we hosted local players from Tampere as well...

Pinja’s task force attended IglooConf, now taking place for the third time, to listen to Azure stories. The two-day event is organized by Finland Azure User Group featuring presentations by international speakers on the...

The office environment was replaced with sunshine when our small team flew to Lisbon to attend the SymfonyCon conference arranged between 6 and 8 December. In addition to Jaska and myself, the team comprised two...

There was a spirit of consensus and all project participants carried their responsibilities in an exemplary manner. "The Äänekoski bioproduct mill project of Metsä Group started in 2015, for my part, just before...

Domino is IBM’s server platform enabling quick and cost-efficient implementation of customised business applications. It offers a secure, fault-tolerant and scalable platform for all types of applications running on...

What follows when the HR Manager and Production Manager of an IT company – while taking a sauna bath – get an idea of an event lasting throughout the weekend? One at which our experts share their competencies first...

Would you like to work with a robot? A questionnaire published in Finland in summer 2018 asked Finns exactly this question. A third of respondents then affirmed that a robot was a pleasant workmate. I stopped to think...

The conference included many expert presentations, such as Iris Classon’s interesting and illustrative presentation on migrating .NET project to .NET Core.

It is almost three o’clock at night between Saturday and Sunday when Markku digs his home keys from his pocket returning from work at the end of an evening shift. It is dark and quiet at home – his family have already...