Closing day at Øredev was as good as the others. Back to 7 interesting tracks. In retrospect, the whole conference was very useful to me personally as well as professionally. Highly recommended to every developer who can get there next year.
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My day starts with Bruce Snyder presenting Apache ServiceMix as a service oriented integration solution. Bruce was excellent, although he had to rush after some initial technical problems. After one session break, I went to listen to Jon Bostrom presenting OSGi for Mobile. A lot was covered and it seemed to be a lot of SonyEricsson people in the audience and I hope the presentation made a strong and lasting impression on them.
Some more break, listening in on BJ Hargrave being interviewed by InfoQ, before heading into Mike Jennings presentation of Android. Nothing particularly new, BUT he revealed the mystery of "Why does the clock on Android phones and emulator has the word 'Malmo' on it?". Answer was dug with Jayway's help that the UI was done by a Malmö company called The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) and to honor of their work, the default clock was given this mark.
Finally a Panel Debate about the Renaissance in Software. I couldn't get my question through; They speak of parallels with the 15th/16th century renaissance, but I think this definition is totally lame. Galileo did some thing no one else did. Observe, challenge everything and make conclusions. This is not happening, All I hear is dogma. It is Agile dogma. It is TDD dogma. It is Pattern dogma. I am convinced that the real thinkers, are alone in a basement, not in the spot light coming up with great things that people ridicule them about and won't surface enough. Sorry. I don't buy into this "I am so insightful and ahead of the curve" crap.
Well, Øredev 2008 came to a close. A good year, as years before... and in the future I am sure. Be there next year. Every developer has something to learn from here.
