About

I’m Aki Karkkainen, a web guy & drummer living in Copenhagen, Denmark: akikoo.org is my personal website. I created this place on the web to let you know who I am, and what I might be able to contribute.

Last Name

Kärkkäinen

First Name

Aki

Place of Birth

Jyväskylä, Finland

Nationality

Finnish

Website

www.akikoo.org

Interests

Music, Web, Open Source

Location

Copenhagen

This website can be considered a platform for me to publish whatever I want to say (including occasional ranting), a place to experiment with various web technologies, an online gallery of various documents and pieces of work I have produced over the years, or whatever you want it to be. You don’t mind if some of the earlier documents are in Finnish now do you?

For more information about this site, see professional bio, what I do, personal bio, technical documentation, or FAQ.

The First Web Related Activities (2000–2003)

I created my first web page in 2000 as a course exercise for the University of Jyväskylä. My first web-related job was helping develop an XML-based personalization method for an electronic newspaper, in 2000. (more…)

For my site, I wanted to have a system that would be easy to customise and maintain from anywhere. So I spent a lot of time searching and testing a number of cmss and blog software, including Drupal, XOOPS, eZ Publish, Typo3, Mambo/Joomla!, and Wordpress. Still not convinced, I went on considering other blog software, such as Movable Type, Expression Engine, and TextPattern. More »

So, you read the short introduction and my professional bio? Good! Now, I’m afraid, it’s time to discuss my childhood and early years. Oh, those glorious years… More »