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I’ve been subscribing to a feed from a site named TED for a few months now, and it’s been really entertaining.

The site hosts talks by many different people from all kinds of fields, anything from food experts to computer wizards. The majority of the talks I have watched so far have really brought up interesting topics, and topics which makes you think. These are indeed clever people, and they know how to talk.

Most of the talks are reasonable lenghts, which means they can be watched with your morning or afternoon cup of tea. The video that came down the feed today was about deep sea exploration and how major parts of our own planet are still unexplored, even if there are signs of incredible things down there. Highly recommended!

I’m giving a talk on this month’s javaBin Sørlandet meeting, about Continuous Integration and our experiences with this, as a small company. I’ve given the title “Continuous Irritation - continuous integration through love and hate” as it will show how we have been working to turn what felt like a constant obstacle into something positive that we benefit from every day

For those of you unfamiliar with javaBin, it’s the Norwegian Java User Group - an interest group for programmers, geeks, or whatever you would like to call us. Three colleagues and I started up a branch of javaBin here in southern Norway about half a year ago and it has been going great so far. We’ve had a good bunch of people showing up, the topics have been interesting and we hope that will continue through 2008 and for years after that.

So, if you’re interested in Continuous Integration, or perhaps you are part of a small development team and aren’t exactly sure how to tacle the CI part of your agile day, stop by the University of Agder in Kristiansand on May 8th at 5pm

There will also be a session on Jira and Mylyn, by the way.