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We’re arranging a meetup for Ruby on Rails geeks in the Copenhagen area. Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 20.30

Today I’m attending Jesse James Garrett’s event “The elements of User Experience” here in Copenhagen. I’ll update this post during the day with my notes. if there’s network access which I sort of hope. Update: Notes done. Very good day! Now on for the informal cocktail hour! Click here for My notes, “the elements of [...]

Sometimes I run into a sign that I just don’t understand or sometimes they are just plain funny. I was skiing in Hemsedal in Norway a couple of months ago and took this picture of an in-case-of-fire sign next to the hotel elevator at Skogstad Hotel: It all starts out very informative: In case of [...]

[updated with Friday program] I’ve been very curious with respect to the conference program for reboot8 next week. Especially because I’ll be giving a short talk there. I see from the Program page that now there is a program available for Thursday at least the entire conference. I just mailed Thomas Madsen-Mygdal to ask if [...]

From a former colleague I just learned that Capgemini started our first official corporate weblog: CTO Blog by corporate CTO Andy Mulholland and Northern Europe Asia Pacific CTO Ron Tolido. There are two things I think are really excellent: Their biographies — extremely well written, and that the weblog has a corporate commenting policy Example [...]

Just realized that the most popular blog on Technorati’s top 100 list is the Chinese 老徐 徐静蕾 新浪BLOG. With links from almost 30,000 websites, that’s an amazing achievement. When did that happen? Who’s linking to this? From Technorati’s own weblog: Only a third of blog posts are in English; today more people post in Japanese [...]

I just found this page on ILoveJackDaniels.com: Cheat Sheets. It contains a bunch of cheat sheets (you know the good old reference posters that is nice to have around the office). Realy good stuff. Now I just need to go to the office after dark to print a couple of posters on the A0 plotter [...]

Blog linking can be painful. Sometimes it’s the one thing that takes most time when I’m writing for this weblog. I just saw a brilliant example from the new Alistapart article by Joe Clark.

Thomas and I are attending RailsConf Europe in London, September 14-15 later this year. From the RailsConf website: The conference is already packed with exciting speakers, including the creator of Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson, Pragmatic Programmer Dave Thomas, best-selling author and passion maven Kathy Sierra, Rails core developers Jamis Buck, Marcel Molina, Jr., Thomas Fuchs, [...]

You might wonder what a code example is doing here in a blog about usability and web standards. As you might know, Thomas and I are both web developers, and we’re really obsessed about making usable web applications. What better way than to share code for things that make web apps more usable. Thomas has [...]

Just a quick note: I’m attending Jesse James Garrett’s event in Copenhagen May 31st, “The elements of User Experience“. I’m really looking forward to this, as I’m a big admirer of Jesse and Adaptive Path. You probably know that it was Jesse James Garrett who coined the term “AJAX”, which I think is a way [...]

The day started with a “Sun General Session” for all conference attendees. If there is one sentence that is worth repeating from this session it must be this one by Rich Green when he is asked by Jonathan Schwartz (President and CEO of Sun) “Are you gonna open source Java?”: “It isn’t a question of [...]

It is now Thursday morning – The day where the big JavaOne convention starts. For the last couple of days we have been playing tourists in the beautiful hills of San Francisco. Sunday we went around the town looking at the harbor area and tried the famous San Francisco Cable Cars. We also stumbled upon [...]

Thought this would be a good opportunity to have a look at the business perspective of using Ruby on Rails for the enterprise. The Business Case for Ruby on Rails inspired me to see what has been written on the business perspective since December last year.

Also a greeting from my blogging partner Thomas Watson, currently at JavaOne in San Fransisco, took this photo near the Golden Gate Bridge:

June 13, Thomas and I are invited to speak at an event about corporate weblogs in Copenhagen, Denmark. It’s hosted by the Danish IT Industry Association, and We’ll be speaking on the experiences with this blog and how it relates to our jobs at Capgemini. Also, there will be a chance to hear Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, [...]

JavaOne is the biggest Java convention in the world held once a year in USA. Five of my colleagues and me from Capgemini have taken the long trip from Denmark to San Francisco in California (19 hours!). My plan is to give you daily updates on all the interesting sessions I’m attending. I’m especially looking [...]

Michael Heilemann wrote a rant on Billetlugen, a Danish company that sells tickets to concerts, etc. Two weeks ago they sold 85,000 tickets to Madonna’s only concert in scandinavia, August 24 in Horsens, Denmark. I had the worst user experience ever, and Billetlugen’s systems failed to sell me the tickets. We were on holiday in [...]

While browsing on Google today I discovered that they had just launched a new service called Google Trends. Apparently you can use this service to “see” what the world is searching for. Actually this is kind of misleading as you have to give it a query first. It will then show you some graphs and [...]

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be giving a brief talk at reboot8.0 about Rails and rapid prototyping. This is in Copenhagen, Denmark on June 1 or 2. Thomas Madsen-Mygdal (of reboot) looked for short demos of web applications, which is what I’ll do: reboot is this year gonna be showcasing 15-20 5 minute demos. [...]

For those of you in Denmark in the Copenhagen area. May 19 I’m speaking about rapid prototyping to make usability testing earlier and more often. The focus will be on the benefits and the business value user testing creates early in the process, so at this event, there’s really no focus on Ruby on Rails [...]

Are you going to JavaOne in San Francisco this year? I’m attending with 6 of my coworkers flying over on Saturday. I just wanted to let you know about a blogger meetup arranged by SunMink (beer included!). See his post for more details and sign up here (only name and e-mail address required). – See [...]

I’ve created a bunch of WordPress plugins for our justaddwater.dk blog. In the spirit of sharing I’ve made a couple of them available for download. My plan is to make all of them available as soon as they are ready for the public. I’ve created a page called “WordPress Plugins” under justaddwater.dk where you always [...]