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Sunday, October 14, 2007

One year of blogging

I’ve now blogged for about a year. I started out with the intent to blog about the topics: .Net, architecture and patterns. As it turns out that has not been the case. My blog ended up being less technical (or rather less code) than I imagined from the start. So, after realizing this I’ve changed my way of thinking about topics and have also reflected this in my top header showing a snapshot of my cloud. This does however not mean I will not blog about technical content. It’s just me stating that I have more non-technical stuff to talk about. This also gives me more freedom on what to blog about. I’ve had a bad bit of bad conscience about my blog focus, but by this change I feel more at ease picking topics I'm interested in.

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Sunday, October 14, 2007 11:02:40 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

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about me!

Hi, I'm Jon Arild Tørresdal. I’m an Architect for the Norwegian insurance company Frende Forsikring, chapter Lead of Norwegian .Net User Group (NNUG) in Bergen and .NET editor for InfoQ. I've been coding professionally since 1998 and on .NET since 1999. I'm an early adapter always looking for new ways to put technology to use for the company I work for, at NNUG or just as an excuse to do some coding at home.

I’m a great fan of Agile practices like XP, Scrum, Kanban and Lean. My first experience with Agile was in 2006, when I introduced Scrum to CMA Contiki (my former employer), which was a great success. Later I found the lack of engineering practices in Scrum pulled me closer to Extreme Programming. I’m constantly trying to motivate developers, testers and other agile team members to adapt the Agile way of thinking to improve the overall quality of software delivery. My motivation for studying these practices is to constantly improve the way I and others work in my organization; both by having fun and adding value to our customers.

I’m also a speaker, focusing on engineering practices (clean code), Agile and best practices (often represented in forms of patterns). At work I often find myself doing presentations on technologies we're about to adapt or how to improve our agile process.

Except from work I am married to my beautiful wife, Gry Helene and we live together with our son Jesper. I love good food and wine, especially red wine from northern Italy. I'm trying to start a collection without any great luck so far :-)

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Disclaimer. The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in any way.