I just realized that today is the 1 month anniversary since I started my new job. It's been a hectic month but only in the best of aspects. Building a local representation of an organization that only has top notch developers or better really isn't that hard work.

With the recent Dotway Visual Studio 2008 & .NET Framework 3.5 Open Space in mind, I feel invigorated and enthusiastic about being back in the software development arena. Magnus has a nice write-up of the outcomes. Even if we actually didn't focus too much the suggested theme, discussions ran high and low. A noteworthy comment from one of the delegates was that he passed on the second beer and had a coke instead, in order to stay sharp and be part of the intense and creative discussions.

I just signed up to attend this year's incarnation of Øredev. It will be absolutely amazing! I'm looking forward to key notes by Ted Neward and Robert C. Martin and sessions by James Coplien, Patrik Löwendahl, Harry Pierson, Jimmy Nilsson, Eric Evans and many many more! I will also take the opportunity to take a SCRUM certification course for Jeff Sutherland. If Øredev 2008 isn't pure coolness, I don't know what is.