Øredev 2010 Wrap Up

Someone should give Michael Tiberg a cape!ØREDEV

I’m just back from Øredev 2010 and it was awesome! I am very fortunate in that I have the opportunity to attend and speak at a lot of conferences but none of them are like Øredev.

For the unfamiliar, Øredev is held each fall in Malmo, Sweden. It is put on by Jayway and organized by Michael Tiberg and Emily Holweck (who should also get a cape). This year they drew over 1,000 attendees from all over the world. The primary focus of the conference is development, but the topics addressed cover such a wide range that there is never a moment when you can’t find something that will spark your interest. Continue reading

Great ideas

The last 3 days we have had our regular team meeting. It was very productive, enlightening and fun for yet again another time. Infrastructure worked, people were willing to share information and did so in a comprensible way, ideas came up, decisions were made and our team culture grew.

So being back and retrospecting the past few days I am considering the lessons learned from this last trip:

  1. It’s always great when meetings are successful, but it sure takes a certain amount of preparation otherwise you can be sure they will fail. Need some tips about that? That’s fine, just check out this post… Continue reading

Life without i-Devices

Returning from my summer holidays taken in a small island somewhere in the middle of the Greek aegean see, I cannot help but asking myself how I could ever manage and make it on time catching my plane flying me back home. I don’t ware a watch, I don’t need one as I always carry my iPhone in my pocket. While on holidays not only I had not checked the time on the cell phone but barely even used it for calls, or text messages. Theoretically I could check my emails when being near an open WiFi, but in fact this had never really worked out because either the WiFis were password protected or my battery was that low that upon connecting to the open WiFi the device would simply shut down by itself. Continue reading

Successful meetings

Frankfurt in Main, GermanyReturning from our ProjectWizards’ team meeting, which I feel was very successful, I happened to stumble upon this article: 10 top tips for successful meetings. The list is in my opinion complete. Is there however something you would like to add? We would love to get your comments.

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Photo: View from the window of our conference building showing the Main Plaza skyscraper (in the middle), back side of House of Literature (bottom left) and the famous Frankfurter skyscraper skyline (in the right) - Frankfurt on Main, Germany