Rickard Nilsson is a web and applications developer specializing in ASP.NET and web standards, with experience from a variety of business applications. Rickard is a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) and has a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Information Technology. His interests includes programming, web 2.0 technologies and agile practices and techniques.

When Rickard isn't working as a consultant at Ninetech, a Microsoft Gold Partner company, he's writing on his blog about things he care about the most. Rickard is involved in several open source projects and he is the founder of Syntax highlighter, an extension project to BlogEngine.NET.

This page describes the story of my life and will be updated with new events continuously.

2008: Took six month parental leave with the twins and started this blog. Upgraded to Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist on ASP.NET targeting .NET Framework 3.5.

2007: Graduated from Karlstad's University with a Master of Science in Information Technology (M.Sc.). Became a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Technology Specialist (MCTS), and Professional Web Developer (MCPD).

2006: Started an internship at Ninetech which later became my employer. My twins Oscar and Olle was born five weeks early and the family had to spend a week at the hospital. We got home again to the Christmas holidays. This was the year I took up bloging for the first time.

2002: Started studying with the IT Master's program at Karlstad's University. In December, the whole family moved to a larger apartment.

2001: My first son is born. The family, now of three, switched to a three-room apartment. Started working as a driver for Berendsen through Caland.

2000: Grumbled from military duty after 10 month with top grades. Started working as a Black Jack dealer at now closed night club Jäger in Karlstad while moving in with my girlfriend. By the end of the year we moved to our own place.

1999: Graduated from high school with a nature science degree in computing. In the fall I entered ten month of military duty as a team leader at IB2 in Kristinehamn.

1997: Met my fiancé.

The rest is history.