I'm just back from Portland and OOPSLA 2006, where I had a very good time. Here are a few comments: It was (as always) great fun to work with Niclas. We had a hands-on tutorial about TDD and the participants chose between Java and .NET. This was the first conference where I used my Mac laptop and I'm starting to grow very fond of it. I was told...

Disclaimer: This is nothing but a marketing post. I have some empty chairs on my two-day hands-on TDD course at Soft Center in Ronneby December 11-12. First come, first served. Send me an email if you'd like to sign up.

An important part of our work is to learn new stuff all the time. That's why we are pretty much used to the pain, like waiting for the ketchup effect, before we really get it. But in the last year or so I have been reminded of another pain, that of not wanting to go back. I have been playing with and learning about, for instance, Ruby, Rails...

I think �reDev 2006 in Malm� is going to be even more fun than it was last year! I'm going to be giving a presentation about solving common problems with patterns and a hands-on tutorial on how to apply domain-driven design. See you there!

I think �reDev 2006 in Malm� is going to be even more fun than it was last year! I'm going to be giving a presentation about solving common problems with patterns and a hands-on tutorial on how to apply domain-driven design. See you there!

Even though the Swedish weather has been awesome this year, it's not the coolest thing I remember from the summer. The coolest (and nicest) thing was when Charles Simonyi passed by my corner of Sweden with his yacht SKAT and took the helicopter over to my place to visit. After talking geek for a few hours, my wife and I had the wonderful...

It's time for one of my favorite subjects, one that I have written about quite often in the past, for example in Tools and teeth and Tools and skills. I ended Tools and skills with this: A vendor once told me that any beginner would beat any old fox if they used their tool... No way! As soon as there is the slightest problem... You get the...

The other day I had the pleasure of talking to Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell on .NET Rocks. Among other things we talked about domain-driven design and test-driven development. The recording of the the show is posted here: www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=194

Phew, the documentation is all done and sent off now... This weekend has been tough. I'm going to OOPSLA in Portland in October where I will be giving a tutorial with Niclas Nilsson on TDD. The audience will find it very code intensive and they will choose Java or C# for the labs. BTW, this is the first time I have written the slides in the...

A Chinese translation of my latest book [ADDDP] will soon be published and I have been asked to take part in a webcast the 30th of August. I expect this to be very interesting for me! Here's the announcement (in Chinese): www.umlchina.com/Chat/jimmynews.htm

I don't know what it is, age perhaps? Anyway, when it comes to software development I can see that I'm slowly moving towards thinking more about people-related things than tech things. I've seen it happen for so many more before, but for some reason I didn't expect it to happen for me too. Of course it's not that I'm not interested in tech,...

I don't know what it is, age perhaps? Anyway, when it comes to software development I can see that I'm slowly moving towards thinking more about people-related things than tech things. I've seen it happen for so many more before, but for some reason I didn't expect it to happen for me too. Of course it's not that I'm not interested in tech,...

The other day I talked to an old friend of mine who I haven't talked to for 16 years. After chatting for five minutes, I learned something about myself. I like working alone in my office from time to time. I know, it's not in line with the Agile dogma (which I think very highly of, by the way), but that's just the way it is. I have put this...

The other day I talked to an old friend of mine who I haven't talked to for 16 years. After chatting for five minutes, I learned something about myself. I like working alone in my office from time to time. I know, it's not in line with the Agile dogma (which I think very highly of, by the way), but that's just the way it is. I have put this...

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