Just back from this year’s developer summit in Stockholm and despite being caught up in a strike of SAS for the second time in a month I had a fantastic time; and we even got a “superstition rebate”. Read more about that on Beat’s blog.

Dan North and I share many views, and we get on well. So, we’ve been toying with the idea of doing a joint talk for a while. Now, we’ve (finally) decided on a topic, namely How simple is too simple? which deals with the thorny topic of complexity in software; complexity inherent in the domain as well as self-inflicted complexity due to poor choices during development. First time we’ll present this in public will be at ROOTS 2007, which is in Bergen, Norway.

JAOO is one of my favourite conferences and in partnership with InfoQ, which I also really like, the good folks at EOS are now hosting a conference in London for the first time. I am quite excited about this and now that the holidays in Patagonia have been postponed for a few weeks, I’ll even be able to go. Expect to find one of my talks in the programme. (Edit: I will definitely run a tutorial on TDD with Martin Fowler.)

I enjoyed last years Symposium, both the one in Las Vegas and the one in Barcelona, quite a bit and will be back at the European one in Barcelona this year. (Had to skip Las Vegas due to timing issues this year.) Confirmed talks are the Visualisation talk Gregor Hohpe and I have given several times now, and a case study about the building of the new guardian.co.uk website. I am extremely pleased to co-present this with Matt Wall from the Guardian Unlimited.