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I should knock down the barriers and finally put some content to this blog. I intend to make this as my technology biased blog partly as a reminder for myself about things and problems I've encountered and hopefully also solved.

About me... I'm Finnish information technology science student currently writing my masters thesis about web site usability. To be exact I'm doing research about usability of Ajax based web applications. My intention is to get some data if much hyped myth that Ajax applications have better usability have actually some ground in it. My research application is Plone web CMS (Content Management System) which is probably best open source web CMS currently available.

Reasons for me picking this certain web application is my backgrounds as a Plone developer in University of Jyväskylä. I've been working with Plone since Autumn 2006 and in that time I've managed to do quite a few things with Plone from translating ready products to developing new ones. Products in Plone are basicly different containers for different types of publications (eg. News, Events etc.) which have specific content, workflows and views. Since Plone 3.0 Plone got some more Ajax-stuff behind it which makes it perfect research application for me. University of Jyväskylä is using currently Plone 2.5 which isn't using heavily any Ajax-stuff. This makes them a perfect usability comparsion target for my research.

Well that's about my masters thesis. I'm going to use this blog for posting stuff about stuff I encounter in my work and hobbies. It may be about Plone, but also about other web technologies or programming as well. Or just about latest TV-show I've seen.

Now I'm going to go back to my masters thesis. Good byebyes!
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