Another year another JAOO and my rear end securely planted on the agile track. Last year (thats 2008 folks!) Linda Rising gave an inspirational talk about the wonders of retrospectives. It was a real eyeopener not only for use as a developer with an agile affliction but also on a personal level. Key words: Stop, [...]

Today I completed the 70-536 exam. Phew! The net is full of pages talking about how you should prepair and study for the exam so I will not drag you through the same here. Instead here is a list of good and bad things about the certification exam. The Good It forces you to study [...]

I have been at the JAOO conference this week where I attended an interesting talk by Dr. Michele Lanza on the concept of “Beautiful code”. Perhaps a more descriptive name would be “Perceiving code through the human mind” – in short “Code visualization”. Dr. Lanza talked about the human brains limited capabilities to perceive and [...]