Not that long ago I was driving to a meeting in a hurry, when the cell phone rang. The voice on the other end met the �stressed-Jimmy-who-isn't-very-fond-of-salesmen� asking if he was selling stuff, such as clippers. It didn't take long before I realized that this was one of the most embarrassing moments I'd had in a long time, since he wasn't...

Is it time to focus on Linq? I was planning to do so, but I kind of stumbled a bit, especially when I hit the Entity Framework... Is it just me, or doesn't it seem as if the whole area is a bit messy at the moment?

Is it time to focus on Linq? I was planning to do so, but I kind of stumbled a bit, especially when I hit the Entity Framework... Is it just me, or doesn't it seem as if the whole area is a bit messy at the moment?

Here in Sweden, Christer Fuglesang recently gained lots of publicity for being the first Swedish guy in space. Right now Charles Simony is getting almost as much publicity over here for becoming the fifth space tourist. I love it that young people have some other people to hear about instead of just the participants in Big Brother and other...

Quite often I hear/read/learn something that I didn't come up with myself, but is so painfully obvious the moment I get it. One such moment occurred last summer when a friend said that it's not about *increasing* the abstraction level, it's about getting the *right* abstraction level. And I think that to a large extent that points us to the DSL...

On April 12th, I'm going to be speaking at SNUG (Skansk .NET User Group) in Malm�. It's not going to be .NETish at all, so if you mostly work with Ruby or Java or any other platform, please also stop by. I will also be hosting an Open Space session or two. More information here.

On April 12th, I'm going to be speaking at SNUG (Skansk .NET User Group) in Malm�. It's not going to be .NETish at all, so if you mostly work with Ruby or Java or any other platform, please also stop by. I will also be hosting an Open Space session or two. More information here.

Anki and Magnus are at it again, running a new instance of the Expo-C conference, this time at Ullevi in Gothenburg. Here's the text from the front page of the web site: Software Legends at Ullevi! Many legends have performed at Ullevi in Gothenburg - Bono, Madonna, Mick Jagger and Bruce Springsteen, to name a few. Now it�s time for two more...

The interview I did with Floyd Marinescu at JAOO is now up at the infoQ site.

The interview I did with Floyd Marinescu at JAOO is now up at the infoQ site.

My preference for public fields instead of public properties with no behavior (depending upon the context of course), has quite often led to my being "flamed" (well, a bit). I saw that Eric Gunnerson and Jay Bazuzi blogged about it so now it's not even a valid argument to say "because Microsoft says so!!!". ;-)

First published here: http://www.iw3c2.org/blog/2007/02/20/reviewing-www2007-papers/ Even though I have a background from academia, I haven't read too many research papers and especially not recently. That's one reason why it was especially fun to be on the program committee for papers to WWW'2007. I read eight papers and learned a lot about...

The local business village is called Soft Center. I've been around here for the last 20 years, in fact, ever since it started. In the beginning, only IT companies were allowed, but nowadays it's totally different; only a few of the companies are in IT. Sure, some of them are very interesting from an IT perspective (such as UiQ), but there are...

The local business village is called Soft Center. I've been around here for the last 20 years, in fact, ever since it started. In the beginning, only IT companies were allowed, but nowadays it's totally different; only a few of the companies are in IT. Sure, some of them are very interesting from an IT perspective (such as UiQ), but there are...

One year ago I learned about Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) from Dan North. I really liked the concept and tried it out on a real world project, with what I thought were very pleasing results. I thought I had a decent understanding of the concept. So far, so good. Then something happened. I started hearing about BDD in another context, and...