It is pretty hard to decide what to see and hear when there are more than 70 presentation sessions by leading experts and authors. I always start by looking around for people who have a deep insight, are not too mainstream and are good presenters. This year it is Keith Braithwaite, Dave Thomas, Ola Bini and not least Dan North (and a bunch of other software development gurus that I haven’t had the pleasure of hearing yet).

My schedule is still a bit messy but that’s almost always the case with the GOTO/JAOO conferences (it is hard to pick just one presentation per time slot).

You can do your own schedule at http://gotocon.com/cph-2011/schedule/

It is possible to get a great discount if you join: IT People Denmark on LinkedIn (only for people staying in Denmark or speaking Danish) or SUPERCODERS on LinkedIn (open for all). Find the promotion code in the forum and buy the ticket before April 9th 2011.

Do you have any advise on what I shouldn’t miss at GOTO Copenhagen?

If you want to grab a cup of coffee at GOTO Copenhagen please drop me an e-mail at jorgen@larsen.name

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Dan North gave a marvelous talk at the Øredev conference 2009 about “The obsession with efficiency” with a nice technology twist:

Dan North mentions the BBRT – Beyond Budgeting Roundtable as an alternative to budgeting.

I can really recommend Tom DeMarco’s book ‘Slack: Getting Past Burn-out, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency‘.

As a part of the JAOO concept, Trifork are happy to present JAOO Days – a series of one day conferences located in Copenhagen. Speakers ranking among the best in the world will take you through current hot topics in software development.

The first to be launched:

• JAOO Agile Day: March 4, 2008, Park Inn, Copenhagen.

• JAOO Web 2.0 Day: March 16, 2008, IT University of Copenhagen.

JAOO Agile Day: March 4 2009
Agile experts like Jeff Sutherland, Nils Haugen, Steve Freemann and more will this JAOO Agile Day focus on many different principles of agile development and the techniques/practices that support these principles, e.g. TDD and continuous integration. They will also look at specific tools that support agile development in Java and .Net and give you tips and tricks to help you improve your agile skills.

Tutorial: Web-Oriented-Arhcitecture (WOA): March 17 2009
The WOA tutorial is an intensive hands-on exploration of next-generation approaches for rapidly building lightweight applications and services over the network using Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA). Topics covered include the complete WOA "stack" which encompasses RESTful architecture, AJAX, lightweight integration patterns, mashup techniques and approaches, open APIs, cloud computing, network identity, open industry-specific standards, security, and related topics. Attendees will come away with:

• A complete working knowledge of all the moving parts of Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA)
• A coherent set of techniques to make first-time WOA practioners successful

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Located in Denmark + Scrum = Join Scrum Denmark at http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/61277 ;-)

The empirical model of process control provides and exercises control through frequent inspection and adaptation for processes that are imperfectly defined and generate unpredictable and unrepeatable outputs.

I think the implementation of software mostly fails when managers and customers tries to use a defined process control model – trying to make a safe environment is a quite natural human action but when doing software it normally only saves you from top management and not from project failure

SCRUM defines a simple solution on how to inspect/monitor and adapt to the unexpected. Please remember that simple solutions can be hard to implement (mainly because people need to adapt to a new way of thinking).

Read more about SCRUM at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCRUM

Since I now am a dedicated Mac OS user and the WIremote app. only runs on Microsoft Windows with Windows Media Player installed I saw no reason for not making it possible for others to do further work on the project.

I removed the key registration check code from the source code (I hope it stills compiles). Since I have no Microsoft Windows with development tools I hope someone will make a new installer with the current source code.

The project can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/wiremote

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Google App Engine applications are implemented using the Python programming language. The runtime environment includes the full Python language and most of the Python standard library.

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