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| - I have been thinking about blogging for a while now. The start of a new year seemed like a perfect starting point. I wanted to start with a quick summary of 2010 and then write up some goals and plans I have for 2011. As I wrote the quick summary it got a bit bigger than anticipated. I don’t want to drown my plans for the next year at the bottom of a long post. Instead I’ll write them up in a new post. 2010 In the beginning of 2010 I was very into unit testing. I had heard much good about testing, and believed it would be good to introduce it at work. I read loads of articles/books and had many good discussions about testing with my co-workers, friends and others. Unfortunately I haven’t saved any of the articles I read, but I absolutely have to point out two books that helped me a lot. The first book is The Art of Unit Testing with Examples in .NET by Roy Osherove. I think this is a very good book to read when you first get started with unit testing in the .NET world. The books include many usable examples and explain in a good way the concepts of unit testing. The second book is of course Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers. This is like the bible for testing legacy code. Armed with this book you get several tricks under your belt to start unit testing seemingly untestable code. I left my old job in the middle of summer. I didn’t want to abandon my “testing child” at the old place, but when I got the opportunity to work with so many skilled and friendly people it was really nothing to think about! Summer time I spent most of my vacation in the new family vacation house at Goddo, Bømlo. The place is new, and there is always something that needs to get done or some fish in the sea to catch. In the end of the summer I went on a kayak trip with my brother for a little week. It was a great trip, and it is what I remember best from the summer. It was really relaxing to spend some time away from everything. It was just me, my brother, two kayaks, a tent, food and drinks. New job, new opportunities After the summer I started as a consultant in Miles. Joining Miles must be the best decision I made last year. The people in Miles are very friendly, and skillful at what they are doing. I am looking forward to learn a lot from them (and hopefully give something back). The first weekend after I started all of us went on a 5 years anniversary trip to London. We stayed at Pennyhill Park Luxury Hotel & Spa, where I got the chance to get to know many of my new colleagues. I can really recommend a luxury hotel and spa for team building whenever a new guy joins;–). The bad After a concert in September I was a victim of blind violence. A guy hit me unprovoked as I and a friend left the concert. It resulted in 3 scars around my eye, 17 stitches and a broken Orbita. The muscles located below the eye fell down into the Paranasal sinuses. This resulted in double vision as the left and right eye didn’t move in unison. On my 25'Th birthday I had surgery. They placed a silicone plate where the broken bone should have been. Not the best birthday I can remember, but at least I seriously doubt ill forget my 25'Th birthday:–/. The vision got much better, but was still not good. In December they had a new go at it with a metal reinforced silicone plate. The vision got even better, but still not perfect. It looks like I’ll have to live with double vision when looking down for the rest of my life… Smidig2010 In November I was at the Smidig 2010 conference in Oslo. The conference is about agile software development (smidig = agile in Norwegian). The conference is all about lightning talks and open spaces where you can discuss what interests you with other like-minded people. The lightning talk that got me thinking the most was “Om det fungerar – gör mer av det!” by Andreas Larsson. He talked about the effect of asking the right questions. Focusing on the good parts instead of asking what went wrong. I should have seen this video earlier! The 2011 post I mentioned earlier is about to follow soon. Just have to write it first.
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