Tragedy strikes (no, not really)

Today we were supposed to hold a PresenTick info event in Foley's Irish Pub in Copenhagen. We knew there were renovation works going on there, but the staff of the pub told us that on Wednesday they will open their doors. Well, guess what?

Today we walk past the pub in the morning and they have posted a new paper on the door. "The renovation takes longer than expected, see you on Thursday". Great! Our meeting is in jeopardy. What can we do, where can we go? Luckily we had found the Scandic Hotel Copenhagen not far away from our hotel with excellent restaurant facilities so we moved the event there. It was only a five-minute walk. Tragedy avoided!

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The car journey continues early tomorrow morning, with a hard deadline (the ship sails with or without us) so this must be enough!

Joke for the Finns

Where am I? I told the taxi driver to to take me to Jakomäki but he just drove here to Barcelona.
That joke by Spede Pasanen, the Finnish comedian and spitting image of Lenin, probably won't open to anybody outside of Finland. It might not even open to the younger Finns, who've so far managed to be shielded from the sometimes over-extended humor of Spede.

Well we had the experience that I thought I had driven to Copenhagen, but it certainly looks more like Barcelona here:


These cows brought me back to Earth and revealed that I really was in the land of cheese. I'm not sure there is something rotten here, though.



Virpi enjoying the sea.

Papers, pub, pigeons and Piter

I've had my first research paper published! The peer-reviewed journal called Software Quality Professional published my paper "Tick-the-Code Inspection: Theory and Practice" in their June 2007 issue of volume 9. Unfortunately you have to be a member in order to read it, though. I can tell you that it is an interesting paper and it describes Tick-the-Code in detail.

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The last few weeks I've spent writing a conference paper. Wish me luck that it will get through and I get to present my findings in the conference in October. The paper is called "Tick-the-Code Inspection: Empirical Evidence" and in it I present all the results of ticking I've collected over the past two years in training sessions areound the world. I also started a project in May and selected at random ten Open Source modules to tick.
At first I was ticking one module each day, but in the end I noticed that I wouldn't be able to cover all of them so I had to tick two modules each day in the end. I'd tick one in the morning (it always took more or less around an hour) and another in the evening. I always made sure I didn't have to tick the same file twice in a row.
In the end I had spent almost 29 hours ticking away. The results are interesting, though.

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We are putting the show on the road! Qualiteers are offering an info session in Copenhagen next week Wednesday on 20-Jun-07. See the invitation and forward it to your friends in Copenhagen. Tick-the-Code needs friends.

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For some time now we've been startled by loud pigeon noises on the balcony. I'd go outside to practice my guitar playing and suddenly there'd be a ruckus and a big bird flying away. Well, today I made a discovery. Pigeons have built a nest on the edge of the roof. There's a gutter that they are blocking. A tree branch covers the nest very well, which explains how we could have missed such a large construction this long. It will be interesting to watch how pigeon young (squabs) really look like...
Pigeon nest on the balcony.



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In July, Qualiteers is taking its first steps on the Russian market in Saint Petersburg! This is great, because I've never been to Russia and I still remember making and holding a presentation on Peter the Great, the founder of the city. That was probably twenty years ago.