Conference paper submitted

I just submitted the conference paper. There's still some time left if my reviewers want to have something changed, but mentally I have released it. The next step is to change it into a presentation until October comes around. Virpi gets to book the trip next week, which is nice.

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Today's movie is "Saw II".

Miscellaneous little news

Topics today: conference paper, website, Stefan's birthday, planetarium.

The conference paper is proceeding very well, thank you for asking. Rachel helped me to improve the writing a lot. As a native speaker, she could point out weird constructions I had managed to build. I think the paper is now much better and ready to be submitted. I hope the reviewers agree as the camera-ready paper must be available by 19-Aug-07.

www.Tick-the-Code.com is halfway through its migration. Most of the graphical components are in place, most of the content is still missing. There's some new automatically changing content, like the coding rules on the home page and the excerpts from the book draft on the Material page. It will be the best source of information about Tick-the-Code soon.

Stefan celebrated his 40th birthday on Tuesday. Yes, this is the borrowed-Watchmen-the-comic-several-years-ago-and-still-hasn't-finished-it Stefan. I've heard he has started reading the comic and found it exciting enough to finish, I hope.

Yesterday we went to see a show in the Planetarium of Bochum for the first time. They had a special presentation called Eclipse, where the showed astrological images and played the music of Pink Floyd. It is well worth visiting. Find the show times here.

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Tick-the-Code -viikkojen myynti Suomessa on alkanut kiivaana. Viikoilla 35 Tampereella ja 36 Helsingissä on mahdollista osallistua Tick-the-Code -kurssille tai jopa järjestyttää sellainen firman sisäisenä. Katso kutsu ja ota yhteyttä. Paikkoja on rajallinen määrä, samoin kuin päiviä.

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.