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Just wanted to say thank you to Ralph Johnson (yes that Ralph, of the Gang of Four) for coming to Göteborg, Sweden at Expo-C and tell us about: "Enterprise Application Architecture " +" The 'Adaptive Object Model' Architectural Style, last Wednesday. He was there on Tuesday as well but I was unable to attend that day.
Meeting Jimmy Nilsson again was nice and Niclas Nilsson as usual of course, but that happens about every week :)
I'm afraid I missed Rickard Öberg, Dan North and James O. Coplien, the other famous names at Expo-C (monday-Wednesday) in Gothenburg last week, but at least I had a nice dinner with Niclas and Ralph on Wednesday evening. Niclas tried to talk Ralph into writing a follow-up or 2nd edition to the Design patterns book using Ruby, instead of the expected Java (which just might be something that will happen!)
Ralph had one interesting part of his presentation, a play with participants from the audience. Now it might be hard to get volunteers to particpate in a play when the potential volunteers are all geeky programming nerds, but then also make them all come from Sweden! ;-) Ah well, in an out-of-character move I was the first volunteer to step up and Jimmy also joined in along with two others. Phew, could have been embarassing for Sweden! The play was great and really did add something to the points he was trying to make.
Mattias Bergander, Göteborg, SE
expoC Göteborg - Software Architecture Conference
Den 23-25 april får vi (som vanligt) storfrämmande på Ullevi (Konferenscentret dock, denna gång) här i Göteborg.
På expoC-Göteborg 
kommer legenderna Ralph Johnson och James O. Coplien som dessutom får sällskap av bland annat Dan North, Niclas Nilsson, Rickard Öberg och Jimmy Nilsson.
Det är inte ofta jag är avundsjuk och gärna själv hade velat arrangera ett event, men med innehåll som bland annat "Organizational Patterns "&" Seven Subtle Stumbling Blocks of Agile", "Change, Coaching and Communication- an experiential workshop", en hel del om begreppet "Agile" och mycket mer, kan man helt enkelt inte låta bli att sucka...
Är du i branschen är detta event ett måste, läs mer på: http://www.gbg.expo-c.se/
Bloggat av Tobias Strandh
Finally - a software conference in Gothenburg! And not just any conference…
If I say Ralph Johnson (yes, him), Jim Coplien (who’s delivered two of the best seminars I’ve ever seen), Rickard Öberg (who has contributed enormously to the Java community - Jboss, XDoclet, Webwork), Dan North (the man behind Behaviour-Driven Development - another brilliant speaker) and Jimmy Nilsson (Sweden’s first MVP in architecture, who recently brought Domain-Driven Design to the Microsoft community) - what do you say?
I just thought: All this? At the same day? In Gothenburg? Can’t be true. Has never happened before. But Expo-C obviously decided to change this.
And then, the organizers asked me if I would consider to be the moderator during the seminar day. I thought about it for a while (15 seconds I think), and then replied “I’d be honored!” as calm as I could.
Expo-C is about design, architecture and development processes - the very essence of this craft. It’s about thinking and making good decisions, not about vendors or products.
Since many good developers are getting a deeper interest in process and collaboration issues, this years program contains a good share of agile software development topics. If you wished that your project was more agile than it currently is - don’t forget to bring your project manager and/or stakeholder to help change situation to a more productive one.
What I have really liked about the previous Expo-C conferences is that they do it differently. One of the organizers, Anki Nilsson, is a professional communication coach and pedagogue, and this really shows. They have a lot of clever, interesting ways of increasing the learning experience and to facilitate the communication between the speakers and the attendees, so this is not the normal one-way communication conference. I’ve learned a lot during previous Expo-C’s.
So - I’ll see you at Ullevi in a few weeks!
From Dan North's blogg, extract from the post called Upcoming Talks.
Coaching workshop and BDD session at Expo-C, 23-25 April, Gothenberg
You know the tutorial days that tend to happen either side of a conference? Well Expo-C has adopted the model of having mostly tutorial days and hardly
any conference! The 23rd and 25th are tutorial days, with two speakers presenting full-day tutorials on each day (I'm on the 23rd). The middle day is
made up of seminars by a number of presenters. As the only speaker who hasn't published a book
(one of the presenters, "Jim Coplien" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O._Coplien, has a small library to his name), I can safely say
it's a very solid line-up. Also, it's one of the smaller conferences so there is lots of opportunity to hang out with the presenters.
I presented a tutorial day last year around the theme of agile delivery and thoroughly enjoyed it. This year I'm doing something a bit
different, focusing on "Change, Coaching and Communication", using NLP and life coaching principles as the basis of a one day interactive workshop.
As with last year, there won't be any PowerPoint, mostly because I'm rubbish with PowerPoint.
I'll also be presenting a
behaviour-driven development session on the seminar day.
