Welcome to my blog.
My name is Morten Sjøgren but online I go by the name m_abs or mabs. This is an old name which is actually my initials, I’ve used this name as my alias online for as long as I can remember, at least ten years. In real life I’ve used it longer than that and at work I also go by mabs since another guy is also called Morten, and he has the most customer contact. To me, mabs or m_abs is just as much my real name as my given name.
I’m a geek and until April 2009 I worked as web2.0-application developer for the danish company Sapio Systems also known as ScoiSphere, which was based in Copenhagen.
Primarily I worked with JavaScript using the library jQuery. During my work for Sapio Systems I’ve written several plug-ins for jQuery and I’ve been given permission to publish them under an open source license and I’ll do that as time permits it.
The topic for this blog will mostly be web development with a focus on JavaScript, but I hope to include other topics.
Since july 2009 I’ve been employed by the Birkerød-based company AdMad, working as a backend developer and linux server administrator.
I’ve been using Linux since around 2002 and I have a fondness for the desktop environment KDE, which I’ve previously contributed a minor patch for it’s IM-client Kopete. I’ve been told, this helped me getting my previous job, which came as a supprise to me but it tells me that contributing to Open Source can lead to benifits other than improving the software itself.
Then it comes to my computer I’m a control freak for many years Gentoo was my distribution of choice because it gave me the control I wanted. But that was at the price of time, so I got sick of Gentoo and the direction it was heading so I whiched to a distribution called Archlinux which it binary with support for source build packages.
On servers I swear to Debian as much as possible, because it’s stable, secure and still have a high degree of control for me as the administrator.