Eurostar 2009 – a week to remember
I absolutely *love* Stockholm in wintertime. Pepparkakor, glögg, gravad lax… and Eurostar too. People keep telling me that I would probably love it even more in summertime, but I’ll always associate...
View ArticleC is for Conferring
The blogosphere is pregnant with conference posts these days. And good ones too I might add. In his blogpost conferences on the cheap, Matt Heusser gives some helpful tips on keeping the cost of...
View ArticleA Eurostar interview
A while ago, there was this little announcement on the Eurostar blog: “As a new addition to the EuroSTAR community, we will be interviewing prominent testers from across the globe” I thought that was...
View ArticleAgile Testing Days 2010 – Day 2 (Defect limbo and stunt hamsters)
October 5 After a full day of playful tutorials on monday, it was back to business on tuesday. The actual conference kicked off with an interesting keynote by Lisa Crispin. Lisa is an author/agile...
View ArticleAgile Testing Days 2010 – Day 3 (Lederhosen and Certified Self-Certifiers)
October 6 Wednesday. Michael Bolton warmed up the audience with the keynote performance How am I supposed to live without you? “Testers: Get Out of the Quality Assurance Business!“, and proved once...
View ArticleRebel rebel – the Danish Alliance @ Eurostar 2010
Something way cool happened at Eurostar this year. A group of like-minded people got together after the conference to do a mini-CONFERence in a more intimate setting. They called themselves the Danish...
View ArticleThe Eurostar 2012 diaries (the prequel)
What a year… It has been a while since my last blog post, and being the programme chair for Europe’s biggest software testing conference probably had something to do with that. Now that the twentieth...
View ArticleThe Eurostar 2012 diaries – part 2 (monday Nov 5)
So it begins… tutorial day En route from the novotel to the RAI on this dark and rainy monday morning, I am pleasantly surprised to see “Eurostar Conference” signposted everywhere (next to Shrek the...
View ArticleThe Eurostar 2012 diaries – part 3 (tuesday Nov 6)
Super Tuesday Photo by Rik Marselis Early tuesday, and my dreams were filled with empty auditoria and keynote speakers stuck in airports. A first reality check eases my mind a bit. The people I dreamt...
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