The day has arrived! We are moving the company to a new and better location in the old part of Copenhagen; Christianshavn.
Up until the move, we were almost sitting in each others’ laps in the old office, so the move has been eagerly awaited for the last couple of months.
Still, when moving we are leaving the location where we fought some of the hardest battles whilst establishing our selves in the world of software development. A tiny bit of sadness compared to the joy of gaining more space and a better, sunnier work environment.
Only thing left is the painting of the old office space, and Christianshavn here we come.
While programming isn’t my area of expertise (then again what is) I must admit I was glad to read that Peter Naur was honoured with a Turing Award for his contribution to computer science. He has done outstanding work with the Backus-Naur form and was one of the creators of the Algol 60 programming language.
Also Danes can be proud of scientists like Bjarne Stroustup who invented C++, the software engineer Anders Hejlsberg who co-designed Delphi and C#, Rasmus Lerdorf who was the author of the first version of PHP, Mads Tofte for his work with Standard ML and so on. While most people haven’t heard about these people they have had a great impact on the stuff you can do with computers today.
Last year there was much fuzz about Ruby on Rails made by David Heinemeier Hansson of 37 signals. He was announced Hacker of the Year by Google/O’Reilly for a product that was released in December!
So what’s my point, really? Nothing much except that it seems that the public schools in Denmark do a decent job teaching kids. Besides that it seems that there’s no principal reason why the great programmers we have at TraceWorks shouldn’t be able to accomplish something extraordinary - after all we are standing on the shoulders of giants 
A fantastic idea!. Sony has combined a mouse and a VOIP phone. For those of us who use a mouse, I can think of no better place to put it. Some of us here in the office use headsets, which can be a bit annoying when a call comes in and you have to fumble around on your desk for the headset. With this solution you just lift your mouse and talk into it.
But then again, we usually talk with people while messing about on the computer (you know, for support etc.). In that case a phone-mouse would be quite impractical. “Hang on a sec while I click on this”.
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