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The Next Thing: Joining Citrix

Last week I finished my assignment at Aftonbladet for Netlight Consulting in Stockholm. Next week I will start my new job as a Senior Software Engineer for Citrix Online.

The last few years I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot, I’ve successfully started two businesses alongside my studies; my own consulting company Framert AB and the Swedish tech blog Swedish Startup Space. I have learnt a lot from these experiences and after finishing my Master’s degree, I started working for Netlight Consulting. After all, that’s what most of my friends from university was doing and they seemed to like it. That was a great journey for me and a great company, but I wanted something more.

The opportunity at Citrix was brought to my attention by a good friend of mine, and I managed to get a great connection with the team. I will be working with iOS and there are some interesting opportunities and obstacles we will need to tackle together.  The majority of the team is based in Santa Barbara, California and me and a few others in the team will be working remotely.

I am really excited to see where this path takes me and what the future holds for me and the people close to me. Most of all, I am really excited to start working across the borders and get back into mobile app development.

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Swedish Startup Space launched!

Last week a friend of mine got in touch with me, asking for help about a website he’s been trying to put together on his own. James now works at Helishopter and previously worked for Jameslist. He wanted to create a community for swedish startups, it was something he and many others felt was missing for the swedish startup scene.

Said and done, yesterday we launched our first version. It was running on Heroku for a few hours but the site broke down and I had to move the site in haste to Binero. Since we are running WordPress and all the media assets is on Amazon S3 it is very easy to migrate the site to another host. We will make sure to make the new setup more stable before we attempt to move it again.

Head over and visit us!

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Using Disqus for comments

Yesterday I finished the transition for my comments on this blog to Disqus. Let me know if you find any errors.

On a side note, me and Pär H spent most of yesterday migrating all comments for another big site, unfortunately we had  70 000 spam comments in the system. Getting those into Disqus was a real treat. After unsuccessfully trying to run some sort of spam control on them, we decided to mark all comments as spam and go through the comments manually and approve those that weren’t spam.

Note to self, always use Akismet or something similar.