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"Jonathan Schwartz writes about finance as a technology business I remember a dinner I had a while back with the CEO of a global financial services firm. As one of his first acts as CEO, he’d cancelled an enormous outsourcing contract, and I’d asked him why - his response has stuck with me. ‘Banking is a technology business. Pure and simple. I can’t win if I don’t have my own team."

"Not everybody was following the Euro 2008 final: Congrats to Spain for a well deserved win anyway. I’ll tell Peter about it over lunch tomorrow."

"Projektplatsen.se reminds me that it has been more than 8 years, or 2932 days to be exact, since I logged in the last time. So I agree with them when they say that a lot has happened since then :)."

"This is my kind of modern grassroots politics: Use the Internet which they want to control to do to them as they do to us."

"So, you are about to give a lecture on lean software development? Here are a few tips: Do not say that the agile movement came out of the dot-com era. Mentioning the Smalltalk community at least once is a plus. If you name the language that first introduced the notion of object orientation, Simula 67 is a good choice. Do not say that Winston Royce advocated Waterfall. He didn’t Do not claim that all US Government work in the 60’s and 70’s was done in a waterfall fashion."

"You can count on Websphere Portal Server to create the longest URL’s ever known to man: http://www.hb.se/wps/portal/!ut/p/c1/hY3RCoIwGEafKP5myy7nDm3gU4kXOaN7CJikBoUPn-ToLvs-y4PhwM9xE9-CTf_CvPk79BBzwdZ6faQEYG1cAVSloojawTDjER-4YOtaVskhpCUS4KU6yQrnUGVsz2ee1t-yvHHxP44d8CymYfC0o5W5q8UnyTc4Vg9Txe4fRc4DF2GMxOvAEeRL3J/dl2/d1/L2dPQSEvUU93Q2dBISEvWUJweGx4dHcvNl9FTUhVOUIxQTBPQVZGMDIzOEFDM1FBMzgxMS82X0VNSFU5QjFBME9BVkYwMjM4QUMzUUEzOEgzLzZfRU1IVTlCMUEwT0FWRjAyMzhBQzNRQTM4SDQ!/ Try sending that via Twitter."

"Computer Swedens developer columnist Tobias Fjälling the other day answered the question “What should a good development environment include?”. (Måsten i en bra utvecklingsmiljö - Computer Sweden). Tobias list: Auto-complete Refactoring Navigationsupport Extendability Speed Debugger Code templates I find this to be spot on what Ola wrote about the other day which I already quoted: It’s interesting, many Java programmers talk so much about tools, but they never seem to think about their language as a tool."

"I am thrilled and honored to say that I will be joining ThoughtWorks starting June. Stockholm is the next pin on the ThoughtWorks world map and my job will be heading the operations locally. The Stockholm office will initially be manned by me and homeward bound Ola, but we plan to find and attract some of the great talent available here. It is really exciting to become a part of the excellent organization that is ThoughtWorks."

"Another thing: ThoughtWorks is sponsoring Agila Sverige 2008, and we have three tickets to give away. Send me an email or add a comment to this post if you want one."

"Ola is so spot on with this one: A New Hope: Polyglotism: “The one thing that I am totally sure if is that we need better tools. And the most important tool in my book is the language. It’s interesting, many Java programmers talk so much about tools, but they never seem to think about their language as a tool. For me, the language is what shapes my thinking, and thus it’s definitely much more important than which editor I’m using."