July 15, 2008 by johanneslink
This year’s Agile conference is looming quite large. I’m going to give a talk on “Test-Driven Ajax” on August, 5. That’s the good news and I’m looking very much forward to it. The bad news: There are 44 parallel sessions and I’ll have to compete with people like Mary Poppendieck, Dierk Riehle, James Newkirk, Dan North, Lisa Crispin, Brian Foote, Marc Evers, Mike Hill, Luke Hohman, Jutta Eckstein and Doug Rosenberg - just to name a few.
So, if you want to keep me away from lonesome talker’s depression just drop by in Sheraton Hall B and we both will have a good talk about the weather or alike.
Tags: Agile2008, Testdriven Ajax, Toronto
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July 13, 2008 by johanneslink
Stefan Roock, program chair of this year’s XP Days Germany, has just announced that the submission deadline has been extended till July, 27:
Since the open reviewing process has worked well, the program comitee will need less time for the final review.
He is definitely right that opening the review process to all was a big improvement. I have two submissions in the run: “Behaviour-Driven Development” and “Test-Driven Ajax”. Go to http://www.conftool.com/xpdays2008/, register and tell me what you think of those.
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June 3, 2008 by johanneslink
Last year I was program chair of XP Days Germany. Although it was quite a success I wasn’t really content with the old-fashioned process any more: submit session, review by commitee, accept or reject.
So this year’s program chair Stefan Roock boldy took a new approach: Submission and review are starting from day one concurrently and - even better - any one can contribute in both activities. I’m really thrilled about that and hope it will show the superiority of the wisdom of the crowd…
Here is the CFS in English and German. Come and meet me in Hamburg, Nov 27 to 29.
Tags: conference, xp, xpday
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May 18, 2008 by johanneslink
That sentence used to be one that I’ve let slip quite a few times during the last 8 years or so. Depending on who I was talking to it either trickered an awestruck gaze telling me “That’s a real man! How can he possibly spend his evenings and weekends without falling dead from boredom?” Or the other person would just respond: “We don’t have one either. How can other people possibly spend their evenings and weekends watching TV?”
To be frank, claiming not to watch TV has stopped feeling right for me. Not that we have a TV set now, but:
- I spend most of my “working” time online - checking news, mails, feeds, forums etc
- I manage to get the most recent episodes of my favourite TV shows as soon as they are available somewhere (don’t ask!). And I do watch them every other night.
That’s why Paul Graham really struck a chord with me when I read his most recent essay on Distractions.
I now have to confess: I’m an addict to new media and high-tec distractions.
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May 14, 2008 by johanneslink
If you have been planning to get some TDD teaching you might consider to come to Munich on June 9 & 10 and attend my workshop on TDD with C#. The course is supposed to be in German but I will do it in English if necessary.
There are a couple of seats available; you’ll get special conditions if you book via me. Just drop me a mail.
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