Harri J.
Talvitie (born 1971 in Helsinki, Finland) is the founder and managing director
of X-Telnet Oy and the creator of Assemblix.net, a site for the Finnish
developer community.
Mr.
Talvitie has worked as a journalist and software developer since the age of 16.
He has been an active contributor at MikroPC magazine and covered internet and
software technologies in hundreds of news stories, articles and product
reviews.
In the late
1980's Harri Talvitie got introduced to UNIX and the pre-commercial Internet
with help from friendly students at Helsinki University of Technology. He built
software to bridge Internet UUCP and FidoNet mail networks together.
Talvitie
skipped most of school and started working at Kemira Research Center at the age
of 18. He was in charge of implementing and maintaining workstations and remote connectivity. He also implemented and maintained the branch-office connection using a separately purchased TCP/IP stack software for VMS.
In 1991
Harri J. Talvitie founded a company together with Mr. Mika Rissa and got offices
at the high-tech center Innopoli in Espoo. There he was able to explore and
study new internet services such as Gopher and WAIS, with kind help from
internet pioneers such as Johan Helsingius and Petri Ojala.
Linus
Torvalds's "right-hand man" Ari Lemmke has also been very influential
by allowing Harri to hang around at the Xgateway offices and teaching him mysteries of TCP/IP.
In 1994
Talvitie founded X-Telnet Oy and worked as a consultant at Telecom Finland's
newly founded Internet business unit. In addition to other duties, he was in
charge of developing the content management platform for the portal site iNET Keskuskatu. The platform choice was Vignette StoryServer, which was implemented
as a pilot project for the first time in Europe.
In the
mid-1990's Talvitie was in charge of developing an software solution that provided web browsing for dial-up users equipped with a RIPscrip-compatible terminal emulator.
During 1994
- 1997 Talvitie also worked with smaller TCP/IP-based project and built solutions
for Finnish companies such as Nokia Mobile, Kemira, Pohjola and Veikkaus Oy.
In
2000-2001 Harri Talvitie got introduced to Microsoft .NET and has since
co-developed e-business web sites, starting with early ASP.NET GoLive-versions.
In 2002,
Talvitie founded Assemblix.net and a related newsletter for Finnish developers. Assemblix
has then grown into a series of web sites and interconnected content management
systems. It is used as a publishing platform and a test lab for
Web 2.0 services.
