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Friday, January 12, 2007

It's official

I’m now officially the new leader of Norwegian .Net User Group in Bergen. I’d like to give Jon Andreas Bygstad great thanks for his excellent work and making NNUG in Bergen possible. And also for retire from his position to make room for me. Just kidding.

Even though Jon Andreas decided not to have the main responsibility anymore, he will still be on the board participating like before. I have a lot to learn and will depend on his experience to be able to make NNUG in Bergen even better than it is today. I think NNUG’s future looks very promising and I hope you as a developer, architect, student or whatever position you have know how to take advantage of NNUG. We work hard to give you free updates on technology, speakers and pizza every month. So if you’re not a member of NNUG yet, go register now! Did I say it was FREE?!!

If you'd like to participate, that being demo something you think is cool or try how it feels to be a speaker, we will be glad to hear from you. Our main goal is to make our .Net community in Bergen learn from each other by participating with subjects that is of interest to others. Also if you have any suggestions to how NNUG can be better, tell us about it! Go here to send us an email

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Friday, January 12, 2007 6:03:20 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

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Just keep that pizza coming ...

Halvard

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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.