November 9th, 2009
A week at Øredev
I just came back from 10 days in Malmö, Sweden, for the Øredev conference. I’ve had a great time. Part of that was because I had Stella with me, and she got to meet all my conference-friends, so that was nice.
But a big part of it is basically just the fact that Øredev is an outstanding conference.
Some of my impressions, things I learned and did in no specific order:
- Hadoop is really cool and I wish I had time to learn more about it. Alex Loddengaard from Cloudera did a very good job introducing this technology in his tutorial. We got to do way fun stuff!
- People liked my talk about Ioke – and I was very happy with how it went too.
- Stuart Halloway is really good at introducing Clojure – I’m looking forward to his talk at QCon SF even more now.
- Me, Tyler Jennings, Neal Ford, Dan North and Stuart Halloway spent several hours of BoF time to create a new BDD framework for Clojure – this was way fun hacking, interesting from a group management and design perspective and just plain fun. There is a distinct possibility that me and Neal will give a talk at the TW US Away Day about this, if anyone is interested.
- Ze Frank is amazing. Really great evening keynote/entertainment.
- Niclas Nilsson and Hans Brattberg did a very accurate depiction of common problems and failure modes of pair programming. Good stuff.
- Tyler Jennings gave an introduction to Software Craftsmanship. Glad I didn’t miss this presentation. Very nicely done.
- Kevlin Henney did a great presentation about agile modeling. I enjoyed it a lot.
- We did a very fun closing panel that was basically just six geeks disagreeing about lots of stuff. I hope everyone else enjoyed it as much as the panel members.
Conclusion: Øredev was a great conference, I was honored to get the chance to speak there and I’ll definitely try to go back next year.