I just finished the slides for my talk about “Architecture in Scrum”. I will upload them here before the talk.

Off we go :) At the JAX, I will listen to the JSF tutorial on day one and to the agile track on day 2.

The Breakfast Food Cooker. Nice reading. I did not know it, even though it was written quite some time ago.

I started preparing my Android-Talks for the Mobile Developer Day in Erlangen, Germany. I will be giving 2 talks about Android Developmen, so if you want to hear me there, just register at the link above. My talks will be aimed at beginners, so if you have some Android experience you probably will not learn much from them.

Today I did a short evaluation of free profiling tools. I have used Yourkit Java Profiler for some years now, and I am a big fan of it, but I wanted to give the alternatives another try.

Refactoring large parts of a complex software system can cause a lot of troubles. And it is difficult. And I am always afraid to do it. But we have a lot of automated unit tests, integration tests and user acceptance tests in my current project, so most of the time I am pretty confident that I can make it. Without destroying any major feature.

Last week I attended a “Certified Scrum Master Training” in Linz (Austria). It was held by Christoph Mathis and Andreas Wintersteiger. Today I have completed the exam, and so now I am:

The Success of MultiTouch is a Lie by Josh Marinacci - very interesting reading. Like just about everything on Josh’s blog. So everybody who doesn’t read it yet: Read Josh on Design. It’s great.

I just booked the flight to London and the Hotel (Notting Hill Gate Hotel) for my Stay at London. I will arrave on 2010-02-17 and visit the JAX London on 2010-02-22 and 2010-02-23. Departure is on 2010-02-24. If somebody wants to meet me there: Feel free to cantact me - the details can be found on the main page.

JSXP 0.6 has been released today. The release contains some new features, like file uploads and application parameters. It also includes several bug fixes. The Javadoc Documentation is available here.