Øredev 2009 is over. Here are links, tips and summaries.
Note: If you want to attend Øredev you can always try to come as a speaker. Øredev pays for Travel and Expenses for speakers we should have a call for papers up on our site for Øredev 2010 real soon. It will be held, by the way, on November 1-5
First I have collected a bunch of links to people who have covered Øredev in various ways. Below is also an account of a bunch of stuff I were able to participate in and listen to!
Enjoy! ;~)
Links to lots of other coverage
Spread this to others and if you do the same to document your Øredev experience let me know and I’ll link to it from here:
And now for my own notes from the event…
For me Øredev 2009 was a blast as usual. I learned a lot, talked a lot, had a lot of fun, a lot of beer. Not a lot of sleep though.
Drinks at my home
One of the most fun events I experienced during Øredev was the chance to open my home for a good set of speakers for pre drinks before the speakers dinner on Tuesday. BIG thanks to David Polberger for taking photos and putting them on Flickr for me. Check out the brain trust in my home! http://www.flickr.com/photos/36414822@N07/ Naturally the picture with legend Trygve Reenskaug (creator of the MVC pattern) is one I am very much proud of:
Speakers dinner
Then we went to the Speakers dinner and had a traditional Swedish Goose feast at the City Hall of Malmo. Goose is great. Apple cake goes with it for desert. And the entre is what is known as Black Soup. This is a soup made from the blood of the goose. Yes for real. Needless to say most of the guests did not care for that too much. I think it’s OK but it is really not that good. The down side to Black Soup is that the next time you see a goose you have this urge to go bite it in the neck. ;~)
Day 1 Cloud Track Focus
The five times we have had an Øredev I have been on the program committee (well the first year we were not that organized actually). This year I had tried to pull together a Cloud Track on top of working with colleagues on the .NET, Architecture, Agile content and more. The program committee has something like 16 members and I am just one of them. Anyway the Cloud Track. I would advice you to check out the following videos once they get published: My (Jayway) colleague Adam Skogman who did a session on the Amazon cloud, Doug Tidwell from IBM who talked about cloud openness and Johan Lindfors from Microsoft who did a great job of showing that developing on the Windows Azure Cloud will be really easy and same as all other kinds of development on .NET.
Evening was pub and party… where among other things Carl Franklin Sings The Joker (Carl’s blog) with Shawn Wildermuth as backup.
Oh – key note in the morning by Marc Lesser “Accomplishing more by doing less” was really good.
Day 2 lots of great talks
This far into the event I am fried from all the great talks and people to hang with. I did manage to go to the key note by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock “What Drives Design”. It was really inspiring!
Other than that I ran around all day talking to lots of people and hanging out.
The evening entertainment was by Ze Frank – he was really funny with a good range of emotions in his set. Noteworthy is the Ray song http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/whipass/ (lots of ray whipass on youtube).
Day 3 the End
Key note by Scott Hanselman. Greatness!
I also looked into a lot of the DCI work that Trygve and James Coplien have been working on. DCI stands for Data Context and Interactions and you can read about it here: http://www.artima.com/articles/dci_vision.html and http://folk.uio.no/trygver/2008/commonsense.pdf
… I could go on and on about all the greatness of our beloved Øredev. But I wont.
Cheers,
M.
posted @ Sunday, November 08, 2009 12:07 PM