Ah, Frans Bouma forced me to get back to blogging after the holidays by tagging me. So I'm now supposed to say five things about me that people probably don't know and then tag five other people. 1. I chose the program I chose at the high school pretty much because I expected to meet a lot of girls... Mature, eh? :-) I had a hard time...

Ah, Frans Bouma forced me to get back to blogging after the holidays by tagging me. So I'm now supposed to say five things about me that people probably don't know and then tag five other people. 1. I chose the program I chose at the high school pretty much because I expected to meet a lot of girls... Mature, eh? :-) I had a hard time...

A new DDD book has seen the light of day. It's a mini-book called Domain-Driven Design Quickly which can be found at InfoQ - a new site with daily news and other material (videos, articles) for architects and developers. This mini-book (which is free to download) is a great way of quickly finding out about this very important area.

A new DDD book has seen the light of day. It's a mini-book called Domain-Driven Design Quickly which can be found at InfoQ - a new site with daily news and other material (videos, articles) for architects and developers. This mini-book (which is free to download) is a great way of quickly finding out about this very important area.

In one way, the agile movement hasn't even got off the ground in many organizations, but at the same time every vendor and consulting company are now sooo agile. I find that a bit shocking especially considering what they said and sold six months ago. :-) Well, it's probably more Agile with a capital A they are claiming to sell. Anyway... I...

Please excuse me for some marketing, but I just wanted to mention that there are still a few seats left at my TDD course at Soft Center in Ronneby, December 11-12. Interested?

Please excuse me for some marketing, but I just wanted to mention that there are still a few seats left at my TDD course at Soft Center in Ronneby, December 11-12. Interested?

I forgot to pick up my mouse after a recent conference presentation. Someone told me later that he had recognized my mouse and handed it in at reception. Nope, there's nothing special about the mouse so I don't know how he could have recognized it. It's just ordinary, grey and boring. Anyway, when I went to reception and asked for the mouse,...

A few minutes before giving my pattern presentation at �redev I think I came up with a good question for when it comes to hiring developers. "What design pattern do you see yourself as and why?" I told the audience that the day before I had felt like a Proxy since I was a stand-in for a speaker that couldn't come, but most of the time I...

A few minutes before giving my pattern presentation at �redev I think I came up with a good question for when it comes to hiring developers. "What design pattern do you see yourself as and why?" I told the audience that the day before I had felt like a Proxy since I was a stand-in for a speaker that couldn't come, but most of the time I...

My friend Magnus took the photo for the cover of my last book. What people keep telling me about the book is that "at least it looks good". :-) Anyway, Magnus told me the other day that he had taken a new photo. It was a photo of a duck. He went on to tell me that I had to write a book to go with that photo as well... What do you think it...

Due to the popularity of the first two Expo-Cs in Karlskrona, Anki and Magnus are setting up another one for this autumn. By popular demand, the focus of this conference is testing. The autumn edition features more local presentations than the spring edition did, with most of the presentations in Swedish. You'll find more information here:...

I quite often receive enquiries about when I'm going to publish NWorkspace, but I'm still hesitant to do so as it's definitely not of publishable quality. Yet it occurred to me that to a great extent LINQ is largely what the vision of the querying part of NWorkspace was all about. Of course LINQ is way, way better and way more complete. But...

At the risk of being like a gossip magazine, I'd like to share a few thoughts about Microsoft and dynamic languages. Erik Meijer has been pushing VB9 as a great dynamic language for quite some time. Microsoft released IronPython a few weeks ago. There's been hardly any commotion about it, not even from MS itself. I'm very surprised about this...

I just heard from the organizers of �redev that they already have more attendees than last year, yet the most hectic weeks for registration of attendees are still to come. The reason they contacted me was to let me know that my DDD-workshop was fully booked (32 spots). Great! At the time, only my workshop and Martin Fowler's were fully booked...