Posts Tagged ‘Talks’

Scandinavian Developer Conference

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Last week I gave a talk about ALT.NET at the new Scandinavian Developer Conference in Gothenburg. It was a really nice conference although a bit short for my taste - with only one day there’s less of a chance to find time to meet and interact with other speakers and participants. Things weren’t all bad in that department for my own sake though, as I enjoyed a nice speakers’ dinner the night before the conference where I had the opportunity to meet old and new acquaintances. I also found the time to get into a heated discussion with Ola Bini - he simply refused to realize why coding in Swedish is a Good Thing! ;-)

Among the highlights were Neal Ford’s two talks - his presentations are very beautiful in the same Presentation Zen style I aspire to. Kent Beck gave a calm and somewhat fun keynote about “Habits of Agility”. Although interesting in a way I would have preferred the original topic - “Responsive Design”.

Anyway, I haven’t had the time to polish my revised slides and make them available for download so you’ll just have to do with the slides from Øredev. They are about the same. You can find them under Talks.

Thanks IBS for a great time, I hope to see you next year!

Slides from my Pimp My Code talk

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

I’ve just had two evenings of fun talking about professionalism at Cornerstones event “Pimp My Code” in Gothenburg (yesterday) and Stockholm (tonight). Listened to some interesting talks and enjoyed a few conversations over food and beer. As promised you can find my slides under “Talks”. Since my slides are almost all photographs and no text what so ever, I’ve included some “speaker’s notes” as well.

ALT.NET Unconference

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

It is time for the ALT.NET minded in Sweden (or at least in/near Stockholm) to convene for a second unconference. This time we will start with lightning talks and then continue with Open Space sessions. In the evening we will dine and perhaps drink a few beers at some restaurant in the vicinity. The event will take place at Alecta, Regeringsgatan 107, the Saturday of February 7 from 11 to 17.

Register at http://altdotnet.se/ (in Swedish) and feel free to submit a topic of a lightning talk. Among the topics so far:

  • Iphone development
  • BDD with MSpec (yours truly!)
  • Continuous Integration
  • Code rot
  • OpenTK
  • Should we stop using mocking frameworks?
  • Object databases for .NET

Hope to see you there!

Pimp Your Code

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

In the end of this month I’ll be doing the introduction talk to Cornerstone’s Pimp My Code in both Gothenburg (Jan 27) and Stockholm (Jan 28). I will talk about professionalism and what characterizes a professional developer after which other speakers talk about some of the topics I bring up. Patrik Löwendahl talks about the SOLID principles, Fredrik Normén about refactoring to design patterns and principles and Dag König about tools that help you achieve better code quality.

If this doesn’t get you excited you should know that the event is in the evening and that there will be food and beers…

Slides, ALT.NET talk

Friday, November 21st, 2008

As promised I have now made the slides for my ALT.NET talk available for download. You can find them under “Talks” in the menu. I got some great feedback; 40 green votes, 10 yellow votes and no red votes (maybe this means I should have been more controversial). Even though Ayende and Scott Bellware did their best to interrupt me, I managed to finish on time - something that seems to have been a big problem for many speakers this year.

ALT.NET Seminar at Øredev

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

I will be giving a seminar about ALT.NET, “ALT.NET - Are You Ready for the Red Pill?”, at Øredev this Thursday. It is the first seminar on the ALT.NET track, followed by sessions with some of the big ALT.NET names: Ayende, Scott Bellware and Glenn Block. Looks like a very interesting track and I will certainly be there all day long. If you are going to Øredev you should come.

I will be posting the talk and some resources here later this week.