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"I am currently in Oulo, Finland, attending XP2006. I have so far attended really excellent tutorials by the Poppendiecks and Mike Cohn. I am writing this waiting for a session on DSL to start. This is by far the most social events I have been to, which probably is helped by there only being 200+ people here."

"On the train to work this morning I proudly realized that my PowerBook had an uptime of 30 days. The fact that Macs can do this is so weird to my non-mac colleagues that they almost don’t believe it. Well, the God of Failing Computers saw me in my hubris, and promptly crashed my computer, just like that, and would not let it restart. It finally showed some signs of life when I got to the office and plugged it in."

"Happy happy joy joy (Via TextMate Bundles (svn).)"

"Update: Martin Fowler pointed to Jeff Langrs response. It seems Cedric did not give us the full picture. I have edited my post accordingly ~~After attending a less than stellar presentation on TDD,~~Cedric Beust confuses TDD with “Agile” and goes on to tell the world that agile is not good. Let’s have a look, shall we? First of all, tests are not specs. Not even close. Somebody in the audience was quick to give a counter-example to this absurd claim by using a numeric example (‘how do you specify an exponentiation function with a test?"

"After upgrading to the latest WordPress release, I realized that I could import my early blog posts from the FreeRoller days using RSS. It was a lot of fun to read some of the old ones again and remember what was discussed four years ago. Prevayler anyone?"

"IntelliJ IDEA 6.0: Built-in Struts Support: “Starting from release 6.0, IntelliJ IDEA will provide Struts support out-of-the-box. The functionality is added by Struts Assistant plugin that is now bundled to IntelliJ IDEA. So you’ll get it without any additional download and installation” Why? (Via IntelliJ IDEA Blog.)"

"Dan North: How simple is too simple?: “Kent Beck advises us to do ‘the simplest thing that could possibly work’, but this is often mistaken for ‘the first thing I could possibly think of’ or even ‘the only thing I know’” Well put. (Via Planet TW.)"

"I read an article the other day about a surgeon who said that in order to stay a good surgeon, he had to perform operations on a regular basis. Which sounds quite reasonable right? Ponder that the normal thing for experienced surgeons was to not take part in the actual operation. Instead, they analyze the patient and decide what should be done in great detail, creating diagrams explaining the situation."

"As I’ve received a few requests for it, I’ve been given permission by my employer Valtech to republish an english version of my article on REST vs. SOAP here at my blog."

"I am seeing signs in the sky that Sun is making a comeback. Textdrive is switching from FreeBSD to Solaris Rumors that ZFS might be ported to Mac OS X Tim Brays presence and statements on the RoR podcast from Canada on Rails Sun makes smart moves like supporting PostgreSQL And not one of them is related to Java."