About jalf
Hi Internet! Nice to meet you.
Me, the programmer
I’m a computer science student (working on my masters thesis, which is due to be handed in on the 1st of March), a programmer and gamer. Or at least, those are the sides of me this blog is about.
I have a part-time job as a C# programmer besides my studies, and have 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 when I graduate, 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. 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)
Email: 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 and I’ll get your mail.
Born: 1982
Country: Denmark
Studying at Department of Computer Science, at the University of Copenhagen