Running around in the maze
Nov 04 2009
Smidig 2009, Norways very own Agile conference was held on October 22nd and 23rd. I have attended it earlier, and this year I was one of the organizers. The entire experience has been excellent, though a lot of work. Others were working a lot more than me, and I reall have to give them credit [...]
Sep 26 2009
My JavaZone talks are available. Sorry, only in Norwegian. I’ve scanned through them and I’m fairly satisfied with the performance. Looks like the Rules engine talk doesn’t have video of us up on the stage. Not sure what happened.
I’ll have to go through them for a little retrospective later. Let me know if you have [...]
Mar 28 2009
I was reading an interview with Renzo Piano in this fridays issue of D2. He is one of the most revered architects of our time and is responsible for many great buildings, amongst them the Pompidou centre in Paris which was his first big break through. He is known for his innovative ideas, but also [...]
Mar 27 2009
On wednesday I did a talk at the Norwegian Java User Group about agile deployment. The slides (in norwegian) are available here as well as embedded on the bottom of this post.
From the comments and questions I got afterwards, I could see how I should have included more detail. That would have made it even [...]
Jan 24 2009
This is a followup to two previous articles about Agile databases and Migrations for Java. It tries to examplify some of the stuff I talk about in those two articles. Here we go again…
You won’t get a new developer each week, but the scenario will help illustrate how the tools I have been [...]
Jan 20 2009
A very nice summary of differenct contract/payment models from Alistair Cockburn can be found here.
Jan 03 2009
If you are familiar with Ruby on Rails you know what Migrations are. The same thing can and should be done in Java, it’s just not that well known.
Why migrations? Because it enables you to automatically update any environment you have to the latest version. And this is done through source control closely tied to [...]
Jan 03 2009
Ferris sent me a message a little while back and asked if I had any input on handling databases, so it gave me a reason to sit down and try to write something about my experiences. I’m not too happy about the flow of these articles, but I figured it was better to get something [...]
Dec 02 2008
Smidig2008 is the Norwegian agile conference. Completely organized by volunteers and excellent content. I was lucky enough to participate this year, but still have some talks I missed. I’ll be sure to check them out. You can find a list of best rated talks here.
You can see the entire list at: http://smidig2008.confreaks.com/ .
Nov 25 2008
Michael Bolton won an award for his talk on two futures of software testing. The message of it is in essence for testers to focus on the needs of the business instead of the plan. Even though it’s a presentation it has lots of notes and a lot of nice stuff there that turns testers [...]