About

Hi Inter­net! Nice to meet you.

Me, the pro­gram­mer
I grad­u­ated with a MSc in Com­puter Sci­ence from the Uni­ver­sity of Copen­hagen in April 2010. My Mas­ters The­sis can be found here, and I’ve writ­ten about it a few times here on my blog. Beyond that, I cur­rently work as a C# pro­gram­mer, and I have what can prob­a­bly only be described as an unhealthy fas­ci­na­tion with C++.

You might have seen me on StackOverflow.com or other pro­gram­ming sites, where I spend a good amount of time telling oth­ers why their code sucks, and what they should have been doing instead. ;)

So yeah, wel­come to my blog. Expect to see a lot of mus­ings and rants about what hap­pens in the world of pro­gram­ming, whether it is com­mon begin­ners’ mis­takes, bad advice being passed around as if it was the Holy Truth, or badly designed devel­op­ment tools or pro­gram­ming lan­guages, it’ll prob­a­bly war­rant a post or two from me.

Me, the gamer
The same goes for games — I’m an avid gamer, and hope/plan to get into the games indus­try at some point, and will prob­a­bly use this blog to crit­i­cize game design, gush excit­edly about games I like or other fun topics.

Me, the per­son
I’m going to try to keep my per­sonal life out of this blog. This is about pro­gram­ming, not pol­i­tics, my friends or fam­ily or any of the other things that take up my time. But rest assured that I’m a real per­son, and not just a programmer.

Just the facts
Name: Jes­per Alf Dam (hence “jalf”, a con­trac­tion of my first and mid­dle names)
Born: 1982
Coun­try: Denmark

Con­tact
Every­thing end­ing in @jalf.dk will end up in my inbox, with one notable excep­tion: Spam­mers, please use blogspam@jalf.dk, as this goes directly in my spam folder. The rest of you, just sub­sti­tute “blogspam” for some­thing more mean­ing­ful (‘mail’ would be a good choice) and rest assured that I will receive your mail. Oth­er­wise, you can of course reach me on Twit­ter.

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