I had a very good conference last week, and it seemed that everyone I talked with did too. Thinking back on it, I'm reminded of a book by Randall Collins, The Sociology of Philosophies: a Global Theory of Intellectual Change. As a teensy part of that book, he talks about how important coming together is for intellectuals and members of schools. It's from that coming together, that personal contact, that people get the emotional and creative energy to push the school forward. I'm fired up.

The local folk in Calgary did a fantastic job. They set a friendly and welcoming tone. Whatever glitches there may have been were hidden from the participants. Plus they gave me a cowboy hat.

As was announced at the Agile Development Conference, it and XP/Agile Universe will be merging next year. The united conference will be named Agile United, and it will be held in Denver.