Luring in his sleep we woke up the GOTO devil for a brief interview.

What’s your name?
I’m the GOTO Devil, and have no real name. In a sense you could say that I’m the little devil in us all. Helping you GOTO Today people getting not just slightly offset.

Where are you from?
That is for me to know and you to find out. During the GOTO Conference I sleep in the Trifork Cellar room where they have installed me with a nice old Chesterfield chair, beer ad libitum, and a nice old play of darts against the only worthy opponent – myself.

After a pint or two I like to tweet my genialities. Follow @GOTODevil to see all my rants.

What are you going to talk about and when?
I’m not giving any presentations – although I would very much like to rant about our current state of affairs in the IT Business.

Why would you like that?
Because we are doing it all wrong. There is too much middleware. Too much about the new “big solving it all” programming languages. And all the agile process people think they can solve all the problems in the world by making everybody agile. In my humble… no, strike humble – In my opinion the only difference between agile processes and the good old V-model processes is that now I’m in a hurry all the time. During the V-model development days, there was only two or so months of deadline panic each year. Now there is deadline panic each friday before sprint end.

I miss the good old C days where all you needed to rule the world was a terminal window on a Unix terminal coding with vi.

What’s the coolest thing going on right now?
That the GOTO Speakers’ Dinner is held tuesday evening and I know how to get in like a ninja, eat like a bear, and get out again drunk without anybody noticing me that much.