Archive for August, 2008

Behavioural Economics++

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Just listned to the latest Radio Open Source podcast, where Christopher Lydon has a conversation with Cass Sunstein about how behavioural psychology has influenced economic policy-making and ideas on how “the consumer” decides and takes risks.

Very interesting show and one of the better ones in a loong while. I think also that several of the ideas discussed in the show can work well within the software development field – especially the assumption that people are “busy with their lives” and don’t want to use much time on making decisions that could have been set as “sensible defaults” in the application they’re using. Good stuff!

Nordic Perl Workshop 2009 in Oslo

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

So, it looks like Oslo Perl Mongers will be arranging Nordic Perl Workshop 2009.

Last time, we managed to attract more than a hundred attendees. Let’s see if we can break that NPW record next year (oh, and we have the guys at friprog.no to cooperate with this year, so we might just make it.) :)