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1 Short-listed for Schmap
I just got the word that one of my photos has been short-listed for inclusion in the fourth edition of the Schmap Helsinki Guide, to be published mid-December 2007. That's just awesome! Update: My photo got selected!
Dec 5, 2007
2 "Test Driven" reviewed on JavaLobby
JavaLobby has published a review of my book recently and it got a full 5 stars in all categories! Check it out!
Nov 17, 2007
3 Interviewed on the JavaRanch Journal
The November 2007 issue of the JavaRanch Journal includes an interview with your's truly. Go check it out. This was waaay more fun than the one I gave for JavaLobby recently.
Nov 8, 2007
4 Coming up for air
It's been a while again since I've blogged so it's about time I come up for some clean blogosphere air. But why now? Why today after 7 weeks of inactivity do I suddenly blog again? It has something to do with the book, right? Yes, I am that pred...
Jul 21, 2007
5 First public reviews and more encouraging feedback
Another small moment of joy... I recently found the first public review of my book from Ed Gibbs. Thanks for the kind words, Ed! I've also received some encouraging feedback based on the first 4 chapters through the book's author forum. This is ...
May 14, 2007
6 Forum for "Test Driven"
Oh, I forgot to mention that there's a discussion forum for the book where you can ask questions about the book and give feedback on the chapters as they are being released. I see that Oskari already went and broke in the forum with a congratulatory...
May 3, 2007
7 Breaking the silence
People are pretty good at recognizing patterns and one that I've recognized recently is the increasingly frequent questions about me not blogging for a while. Not blogging for a bit over a month to be exact. At this point the repentant blogger always ...
Apr 27, 2007
8 Notes from Warsaw
I've been coaching two Scrum teams in Warsaw, Poland for the past couple of weeks. The weather has been, well, cold and wet for most of my stay but the people have been warm enough to more than balance out the equation. I often find myself in intere...
Feb 10, 2007
9 How has Ruby on Rails made me a better programmer
Since I can't push myself to doing something more useful, such as developing one of the small open source projects I'm involved with, I decided to muse on how Rails has made me a better programmer. Besides being an interesting question, writing up my ...
Jan 30, 2007
10 My beloved MacBook broke down
It is with deep sorrow and wielding pain that I show you these pictures. I really love my MacBook. And now it has broken down. Let me take you back a couple of hours. I'm sitting at the office when a colleague drops by. We head off to a meeting...
Jan 18, 2007
11 Am I getting "special treatment"?
Why is it that all of my flights seem to depart from the exact same gate in Helsinki, no matter where I'm going and no matter which airline I'm flying?
Nov 23, 2006
12 XP Day Benelux - The aftermath
<!-- .storyimage { margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; } --> After the XP Day Benelux 2006 was nearing its end, we realized with Markus that we need accommodation for the night so online we went (I recommend lastminute.com, by the way. It...
Nov 21, 2006
13 XP Day Benelux 2006
<!-- .storyimage { margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; } --> The annual XP Day Benelux conference took place last week in the small Belgian town of Mechelen, a stone's throw from Brussels. As you may know, I attended the conference and al...
Nov 21, 2006
14 Signs of life in the RSS feed
Pekka, this one is for you. I have to say that I've been very much in "read-only" mode and, at the moment, it doesn't look like I'll be blogging too much in the immediate future. I've got a bunch of half-assed drafts on a variety of topics but there...
Oct 16, 2006
15 Resistance as a Resource workshop coming to town
It seems that I'll be presenting the Resistance as a Resource workshop also in the London XP Day conference end of November. Still waiting for a word on whether it makes it to the XP Day Benelux.
Sep 21, 2006