Head On http://marcus.ahnve.net A northern, polar-bears-on-the-streets, view on programming, music etc. from Marcus Ahnve Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:55:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 1996 revisited http://marcus.ahnve.net/2009/04/15/1996-revisited/ http://marcus.ahnve.net/2009/04/15/1996-revisited/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:56:41 +0000 Marcus Ahnve http://marcus.ahnve.net/?p=570 After receiveing what I believe was the third promotional email from my beloved mobile phone operator, showing this not-so-useful information

Screenshot of empty email

I was curious to see what sort of HTML did not even render images in Safari.

Behold:

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Wow - it is like a time machine to 1996. MSHTML did supposedly generate it.

]]> http://marcus.ahnve.net/2009/04/15/1996-revisited/feed/ ThoughWorks Free Seminars in Stockholm http://marcus.ahnve.net/2009/04/07/thoughworks-free-seminars-in-stockholm/ http://marcus.ahnve.net/2009/04/07/thoughworks-free-seminars-in-stockholm/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:31:44 +0000 Marcus Ahnve http://marcus.ahnve.net/?p=568 ThoughtWorks will give two free seminars at Berns Tuesday April 21 2009.

The morning one is given by me and will be on the business value of agile and lean, and how it can be the competitive advantage in difficult times.

In the afternoon my colleague Zack Exley will give a behind-the-scenes look at the technological side of the Barack Obama campaign.

Both of the talks will be kicked off by our chairman Roy Singham who will give his view on why he believes Scandinavia has a great future in the software development world.

You are welcome to attend either one of these - or both of course.

For registration and more info please visit: http://connect.thoughtworks.com/stockholmEvent/

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]]> http://marcus.ahnve.net/2009/04/05/simple-beats-complicated/feed/ ThoughtWorks Hosts A Track and Speaks At Scandinavian Developer Conference http://marcus.ahnve.net/2009/01/22/thoughtworks-hosts-a-track-and-speaks-at-scandinavian-developer-conference/ http://marcus.ahnve.net/2009/01/22/thoughtworks-hosts-a-track-and-speaks-at-scandinavian-developer-conference/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:56:23 +0000 Marcus Ahnve http://marcus.ahnve.net/?p=560 ishot-21.png

ThoughtWorks cohosting and speaking at the Emerging Technologies track at the Scandinavian Developer Conference. Ola will speak about JRuby and I will give a presentation with a title stolen from XP: 'The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work'.

It is a one day conference which I am really looking forward to - Kent Beck keynoting is reason enough to be there. See the full program here.

]]> http://marcus.ahnve.net/2009/01/22/thoughtworks-hosts-a-track-and-speaks-at-scandinavian-developer-conference/feed/ ThoughtWorks Sweden Gets A Roommate http://marcus.ahnve.net/2009/01/13/thoughtworks-sweden-gets-a-roommate/ http://marcus.ahnve.net/2009/01/13/thoughtworks-sweden-gets-a-roommate/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:04:05 +0000 Marcus Ahnve http://marcus.ahnve.net/?p=557 ThoughtWorks Sweden will move in with our great friends at Agical at the end of this month. Our new address will be

ThoughtWorks Sweden Västerlånggatan 79 2tr
111 29 Stockholm
Sweden

Personally it will be the first time I have an office in Old Town - cool.

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It is very close my favorite XP slogan "playing to win" and what I talk about in my presentation on Agile Documentation. A good read, but unfortunately only in the paper edition.

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]]> http://marcus.ahnve.net/2008/12/17/quoted-in-computer-sweden/feed/ Agile Sweden Christmas Party http://marcus.ahnve.net/2008/12/09/agile-sweden-christmas-party/ http://marcus.ahnve.net/2008/12/09/agile-sweden-christmas-party/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:13:26 +0000 Marcus Ahnve http://marcus.ahnve.net/?p=548 The Agile Sweden annual christmas party is on Thursday at the Agical office. The evening will kick off with a few lightning talks, of which I am doing one. My talk is titled "The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work" and will discuss how XP's value of simplicity has more or less been forgotten as agile has gone mainstream.

]]> http://marcus.ahnve.net/2008/12/09/agile-sweden-christmas-party/feed/ Symptoms vs. Causes http://marcus.ahnve.net/2008/12/08/symptoms-vs-causes/ http://marcus.ahnve.net/2008/12/08/symptoms-vs-causes/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:57:06 +0000 Marcus Ahnve http://marcus.ahnve.net/?p=545 There latest storm in the teacup that is Swedish IT is caused by the national news agency TT decision to move from OpenOffice to Microsoft Office, mainly because 'I [head of development] do not want to sit here wondering how I will connect OpenOffice with a hundred eleven other systems'. I believe 'a hundred eleven' is a long form for 'a lot'.

This has in almost deterministic fashion caused people from both sides of the OSS-MS divide to wave their party flags. But no one asks the to me more obvious question - why do you connect your office suite with all those systems, and why is that a problem if you do not have Microsoft Office? Seems more like an architecture question if you ask me.

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