The JAOO Today team are happy to declare the TwitterBingo competition to be officially over.

At 15.43, Manuel R. Ciosici showed up at the info booth carrying a bingoplate with the id of 1541, with 16 numbers all checked off.
After a quick electronic fraud check against the twitter stream, we were able to coronate Manuel as the winner of a free ticket for JAOO Aarhus 2010.

The catch

But as in almost any case connected to Real Life™, there’s a catch. In this case, the problem was that Manuel did not want the ticket!
While at first sight, this might seem to be a serious blow to the JAOO reputation, it’s really quite the opposite:
The reason Manuel did not want the free ticket is that he has had a terrific time this year as student volunteer crew during the conference. He’s enjoyed it to a degree than rather going for free next year without doing any work, he prefer taking part in the social life of the people making JAOO tick, working hard behind the scenes while the rest of us stand around, sipping the free coffee.

So let’s congratulate Manuel with the book prize he chose instead and thank him for his work at his conference.

The sequel

But the hunt is still on: The first person to present the JAOO Today team with a fully automated TwitterBingo solution will be admitted freely to JAOO Arhus 2010. The solution must tell whether a given TwitterBingo card is a winner or not. The only human interaction allowed is taking a picture of the card, should you so desire – that is, solutions which require entry of the numbers on the card don’t count.

Your entry must be demonstrated to a member of the JAOO Today team on or before friday oct 9th. You can reach us here at the blog.

Session in question: Data Parallelism with Simon Peyton-Jones, who demonstrated the obscure and academic Haskell language. However, I cannot help feel the pressure of type classes, purity, and most of all, Simon Peyton-Jones himself.

The route was as always two times around the center of Aarhus. The route ended with a rather steep climb which was killing me the second time. I ended up competing with a relatively old grey-haired woman with a shirt labelled Aarhus 1900 (the local running club). I just beat her at last. I don’t know if I should feel happy or depressed about this, considering the fact that she was about 20 years older than me

The IT firm fight between IBM and Trifork this year was never officially determined because the local running club, which was arranging the IT run, had forgot to install an UPS and unfortunately someone tripped over the power cord, resulting in the timing equipment temporarily failing. I have been talking with the Trifork team and this year they are convinced that they won. As I understand it the IBM team regretfully agreed.

See all (or almost all) the results at the IT-Run website.

Design Stories by Kevlin Henney

Wednesday 10:15 – 11:15 in Filuren
At least just for the fun of it, you should go to one talk with Kevlin Henney every year. Which one you pick really doesn’t matter that much, just be prepared for some nice storytelling. And don’t try it all at home™.

How Cloud is working as a disruptor to shake up middleware design by Billy Newport

Wednesday 14:45 – 15:45 in Store Sal
Maybe you’ve read our interview with Billy Newport, and if you have, you might have noticed that he doesn’t quite come off as the traditional IBM dustballer. So, if you’re going to a talk about clouds, this is probably it – there might actually be some kind of substance to it. At least their grid stuff looks pretty neat.

Software Visualization 101+ by Michele Lanza

Wednesday 16:15 – 17:15 in Filuren
Michele Lanza does some pretty interesting things with code visualization – he did some demos last year on how to create city-like maps by doing static code analysis. Hopefully something will have happened since then, but for those of you who didn’t go to his talk last year, this seems like a nice talk to finish JAOO off.

If you take a quick look at the list of speakers at JAOO 2009, you’ll probably see what I mean. Sure, there are the usual bunch of developers, CTOs, CEOs, and so on, but… what’s up with

• Software Simplist
• Wizard of Open Source
• Agile Sceptic
• Agile Troublemaker
• Sanitation Engineer

The list goes on – shouldn’t there be some kind of system to this? I feel chaos closing in…

Also, the mens’ rooms often have the concept of urinals, and this can be a source of some discomfort. If you’ve been wondering why this is, do read the Urinal Protocol Vulnerability.

In the exhibition area, the booths are swamped with competitions allowing you to win some really cool stuff. JAOO Today took a tour around and is now able to show you a list of the prizes:

IBM Rational: iPod Touch 32 gb
Version2: Netbook Mini PC 730 EO
DataDirect: Navman S70 3D
Trifork: an iPhone, drawn each day
Kaazing: iPod nano, iPod shuffle, drawn at 4 pm each day
Mannaz: courses for a value of 20.000 DKK

Of course, the list might be incomplete. Feel free to comment, if you know of a competition not listed here.
If you wouldn’t rather keep it to yourself, that is…

But we at JAOO Today want more! We want lines at the info booth, we want fighting on the exhibition floor over the last bingo cards, we want winners cheering and losers crying. We want to up the ante a little bit:

On Wednesday, the first person to show up at the info booth with a winning bingo card will be admitted to JAOO Aarhus 2010 at the very favorable prize of 0,- danish kroner – zero as in “Free Ticket”.

And for the wonderful female part of the JAOO crowd, same goes for you: Grab you bingo cards (and I’ll just hope the heading isn’t illegal in some crooked way)

That means that the challenge is still open: The first who writes a completely automated TwitterBingo checker will win a free ticket to JAOO 2010.