I will be interviewing these six gentlemen:

• Jon Bostrom
• Walter Bright
• James Bach
• Roger Sullivan
• Luke Hohmann
• BJ Hargrave

Let me know if you have any question you would like me to ask.

I will probably spend quite some time in the ThoughtWorks booth, so come by and say hi. Or beat me in the IT-run which I have signed up for.

Last years conference was great and inspired us here in Stockholm to do our own version in the form of Agila Sverige. I am really looking forward to going back to Oslo.

To match my .Net experience, we will touch on frameworks and tools for .Net, but focus on the ideas and philosophies behind them, making it a very platform independent presentation.

The event is first and foremost for clients and members of .NetAkademin, but any seat not taken by them is available to the public.

This means that we are available for consulting gigs, primarily in Stockholm, but we can serve basically all of Scandinavia. With ThoughtWorks global organization behind us, we offer software delivery in Java, Ruby and .Net as well as agile coaching and consulting. We are also keen to show off our products Mingle, Cruise and Twist.

Call us, email us, come by the office for a coffee or lunch. We look forward to hearing from you.

ThoughtWorks
Mäster Samuelsgatan 60, 8 tr.
111 21 Stockholm

Office: +46 8 5500 2100
Skype me: mahnve
email me: mahnve at thoughtworks dot com

A great Web app uses persistent, readable URLs for every interesting resource. Twitter does that, so it’s pretty easy to share links to people, statuses and other points of interest. Hahlo hides the entire user interface behind a single URL, but it works extremely well because Hahlo is just a front end, Twitter is the system of record. If I need to link, I wouldn’t be using Hahlo links anyway (although link discovery is missing in the current version).

Perhaps this is a good way to both have the cake and eat it? Have a restful, share nothing API, which is accessed by a separate GUI app built in say Seaside that can use state as much as it wants.

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.’

Independent of his views on outsourcing, I’ve heard the same point made by many (but not all) financial services executives - banking (like big swaths of telecommunications, media and retailing) has become a technology business, where every ounce of performance and differentiation matters. Even, and especially, in the midst of market turmoil.

Which is why you should use consultants that can help you improve your game, not play the game for you.

(Via Jonathan Schwartz’s Weblog.)

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 I lot has happened since then :).