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I will do a presentation on ‘Successfully Using Test Driven Development’ at .NetAkademin Tuesday September 16th. This talk will cover stuff like BDD, outside-in but also how the test-driven approach is used on the project as a whole.

To match my .Net experience, we will touch on frameworks and tools for .Net, but focus on the ideas and philosophies behind them, making it a very platform independent presentation.

The event is first and foremost for clients and members of .NetAkademin, but any seat not taken by them is available to the public.

No more tweet summaries here. Thanks Ben.

ThoughtWorks Sweden has come a long way since I last posted anything about it. We have ourselves a nice office downtown, with proper phone numbers and pretty business cards.

This means that we are available for consulting gigs, primarily in Stockholm, but we can serve basically all of Scandinavia. With ThoughtWorks global organization behind us, we offer software delivery in Java, Ruby and .Net as well as agile coaching and consulting. We are also keen to show off our products Mingle, Cruise and Twist.

Assaf writes about using Hahlo and Fluid, and I find this paragraph especially interesting:

A great Web app uses persistent, readable URLs for every interesting resource. Twitter does that, so it’s pretty easy to share links to people, statuses and other points of interest. Hahlo hides the entire user interface behind a single URL, but it works extremely well because Hahlo is just a front end, Twitter is the system of record. If I need to link, I wouldn’t be using Hahlo links anyway (although link discovery is missing in the current version).

Jonathan Schwartz writes about finance as a technology business

I remember a dinner I had a while back with the CEO of a global financial services firm. As one of his first acts as CEO, he’d cancelled an enormous outsourcing contract, and I’d asked him why - his response has stuck with me. ‘Banking is a technology business. Pure and simple. I can’t win if I don’t have my own team.’

Not everybody was following the Euro 2008 final:

Congrats to Spain for a well deserved win anyway. I’ll tell Peter about it over lunch tomorrow.

Projektplatsen.se reminds me that it has been more than 8 years, or 2932 days to be exact, since I logged in the last time. So I agree with them when they say that a lot has happened since then :).

This is my kind of modern grassroots politics: Use the Internet which they want to control to do to them as they do to us.

So, you are about to give a lecture on lean software development? Here are a few tips:

1. Do not say that the agile movement came out of the dot-com era. Mentioning the Smalltalk community at least once is a plus.
2. If you name the language that first introduced the notion of object orientation, Simula 67 is a good choice.
3. Do not say that Winston Royce advocated Waterfall. He didn’t
4. Do not claim that all US Government work in the 60’s and 70’s was done in a waterfall fashion. Nasa ran iterative projects in the 1960’s.
5. Understand that most Toyota practices that has been adapted by the software development community are taken from Toyota Product Development System, not Toyota Production System.
6. If you still intend to do 1-5, do not start the presentation by saying that you are going to correct some misunderstandings about agile.

Good luck.

You can count on Websphere Portal Server to create the longest URL’s ever known to man:

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Try sending that via Twitter.