My activity on this blog is low and it will remain so.
I am going to be writing actively on these two blogs though:
Minimum Noise Blog and The Vertical Slice.

See you over there!

We have just launched the site www.minimumnoise.com where you can crowdsource your music production.
This means that if you have a song that lacks a bassline or that special vocal, you can now have someone else make it for you. Or, if you have talents in a special area, you can make money by creating that for other artists.

I am really excited about this and I hope that it will become a valuable tool to musicians around the world. Also, I am hoping that it will help me with my own musical experiments which could really need some help from talented people

Merry Christmas and happy new year to all of you!

I’ll be at Business of Software in Boston, September 3- 4. Hope to see you there!

I am on the BoS Crowdvine network. Is there such a thing as enough social networks?

I will be giving a talk on concurrency on Wednesday the 9th of January. It will be in the fabulous PeopleGroup building in central Copenhagen. So if you’re around (and understand Danish), there are still seats left.
More info

This is usually not a place for politics and local stuff. But I will make an exception.
If you’re in Denmark, you should support Nørrebro Bryghus by buying their excellent beer. They are in a conflict with 3F which, in my opinion, belongs in a different century. Read about the case here.

Talented programmers have the ability to redefine problems - in more general terms and in particular, in simpler terms. There is always a better and more generic solution which is almost always more interesting to create and possibly a good investment as well. Making a piece of software more generic is tempting to programmers. But it isn’t free.

Read my text about the genericity scale on The Vertical Slice.

In September, BestBrains is arranging a second workshop on Lean Software Development with Mary and Tom Poppendieck. I attended the workshop in April and I highly recommend it to anybody with any interest in processes and management in general and software development in particular. If you like the agile methodologies, you will find that Lean has a lot of similarities - take a look at this article.

Version 1.1 of Discreet Reminder is out. The new version features conditional reminders that will only trigger if a given application is active. This means that you can make reminders that nag you every 20 minutes you have been surfing or playing a game or anything else that you probably shouldn’t be spending your time doing..

mitkbh.dk is a Danish web2.0 site about Copenhagen. While there is a fair share of sites reviewing Copenhagen places and events, I think this one could excel to become one of the better. So if you live in Copenhagen, go do your web2.0 duty and write about your favourite places!

Concurrency is going to be part of most developers’ lives in the future. C++ and languages like it are poorly suited for concurrency as it is today. Semaphores are common and well-known, but using them correctly is difficult. If you want to prepare for concurrency, you could start the transition by becoming familiar with immutability, persistent data structures and active objects.
I have written an article on the subject. It’s hosted at Gamasutra (free login required) here.