FIRM was established in 1996, and has 70 employees in 4 offices (Oslo, London, New York and San Francisco). FIRM delivers one software product: Confirmit. Confirmit is a web-based application which enables organizations to gather, analyze and report key business information across a broad range of commercial applications.

This article reports on an experimental study, carried out during the 2004 ACCU conference, that investigates the consequences of a limited capacity short term memory on subjects' performance in some of the tasks needed to comprehend short sequences of code.

This article reports on an experimental study, performed during the 2003 ACCU conference, that attempted to measure one particular aspect of developer identifier meaning assignment behavior. The study investigated the extent to which belief in the applicable application domain affects the meaning assigned to identifier names.

I write this to share my experiences good and bad about being unemployed in the software engineering arena.