May
19
2008
Google has released Google Doctype, which is a massive online reference for DOM, CSS and everything web browsy. It is also a test-suite in javascript, which lets them run easily against any new browser or update. A really neat idea, but a massive undertaking I’m sure. Read the announcement.
May
06
2008
I don’t post much stuff here that isn’t ultra nerdy, but I just had to write about The Hotel Cafe Tour concert I attended yesterday.
The main attraction was Tom McRae (which is sort of a big artist here in Norway, and one of my favourite artists), but I was so incredibly impressed with all the [...]
Tags: concert, music
May
02
2008
Johannes Brodwall has a good article about SOA and what it claims to deliver. They claims are appealing theories, it’s just too bad it’s doesn’t work. The only thing I wish to extract and use from SOA is the governance, but you don’t need an ESB to do that.
Tags: Development, esb, soa
May
02
2008
Passing the Nokia test does not mean you are good at agile. Don’t stop when you can say yes to the tests, that’s when the action begins. That’s when you passed the basics, and start to learn. You still have a long way to go, so don’t stop improving.
Tags: agile, nokia-test, scrum
May
02
2008
My old boss for a summer internship has a good listing of what goes on in Oslo, Norway and the programming community. We acutally have the largest XP-meetup in the world, and rank 1st and 3rd (XP and Lean) on the agile-meetups as well. Being able to listen to and talk to people like Alistair [...]
Tags: agile, community, meetup