We are deep in the planning of the next Øredev and boy is it going to be good. The full program will be shown shortly but I thought I should give you a few teasers. There will be a full day of UX tracks, among the the session you find titles like Tap is the new click and GUIDe for Saving Face: Developing Killer GUIs with Agile Methods. We are very proud to have all of the speakers with us but a couple names will be revealed shortly.

But the full day of sessions is not all we will have a fun filled day with UX workshops as well. Covering both rich internet application design and gestural and multi touch design with two really great workshop speakers.

More to be announced really soon, be sure to watch the Øredev site for the full program.

// Håkan Reis

I will attend Øredev as usual. This event is just getting better and better. Last year it was maybe one or two slots where the session collided and a couple of dead spots.No there isn't a single dead slot in the session list and all too often two or even three collisions. Just listen to this:Tomorrow you will find Applying LINQ with Jimmy Nilsson and at the same time you can listen to a session on Testable Architecture with Ron Jacobs from Microsoft. Just to make it even harder to decide you will find a session on Introducing usability an agile driven projects on the same single slot.And it goes on for the full conference with seven parallel slots, so I will attend as much as I can and worrying about what I will be missing. This is hard work...But, I won't drag my computer along, so any notes and impressions will come digested instead of live from the conference floor.

Ahh, a tiring couple of days at Øredev conference. It's interesting but hard to stay alert for a full day of seminars. Next year, I and a colleague are planning for some usability focused stuff at Øredev. Finally the time might be right now when even developers are starting to acknowledge usability (they just don't know it yet). One example is what Martin Fowler describes with fluent interfaces. In its essence, fluent interfaces are nothing but usability for the developers. Make the API simple, readable and usable for the audience – the developer. Ring a bell here?Some, however, catch on and understands that essentially it's the users that count. The second day key-note speaker James O. Coplien / nordija. Did in fact, so geek he is, address that at hart agile development is about giving the user what the need. But that it has been lost in nerdism in most incarnations of agile development.When developers start talking about usability something might eventually happen, and the winner is the users.