Posts Tagged ‘work-space’

I’ve been thinking way to long about a follow-up post on the workspace at the IT-university and been pushing it off for way to long now. Then I read this quote from 43 Folders and decided to just start! (I didn’t even finish 43’s blog post)
“Every time you sit down to write represents a new [...]


A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -Winston Churchill
I believe this quote illustrates 2nd year SEM student Justin’s thoughts when he first heard about the coffee withdrawal. In my eyes he’s a faithful coffee drinker, but more importantly, he’s vary of the students well being and [...]


A few weeks back I had the following conversation with an old classmate on Facebook about our free fuel, coffee:
E: Ursäkta?!?! Free?? Vilket uni går du på?? (Excuse me?!?! Free?? Which uni are you attending?)
Me: E, Yupp – free selecta-machine coffee! Det är nice, men som sagt… inget slår färskbryggt. (That’s nice, but ofc, nothing [...]


Actually, physically it is not that hard. Chalmers is generous enough to give us cards to enter the doors we need (most of the times). Then there’s the not-so-tangible areas which is crawling around on the Interwebs.
IT-Sektionen – http://its.ituniv.org -
To this one we all belong. Make sure to pay your union fee and the board [...]


Considering my summer in terms of employment is rather patchy, I early April decided to apply for two summer courses. In case I found myself in a position of having too much free time, at least I would learn something new. Thus, off to Kalmar (on the east coast of Sweden) to take an introductory [...]


The never-ending war. The free vs the proprietary. The scattered vs the one. The culture vs the company. GNU/Linux vs Windows. Hesa, one of the teachers at ITU, wrote a blog post about students preferences concerning their operating system and programming editor.
Needless to say, these are the two things which probably have caused the vast [...]


Once in a while I usually find myself in a discussion about productivity. The topics covered so far is broad and it is everything from that nifty python script to what kind of programming fuel you should take. Another not so uncommon discussion is about work environment.
First, let me give you a quick description of [...]