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title: "My first talk in Norwegian - Beautiful Builds"
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published: "2013-03-15T12:02:03"
updated: "2013-03-15T12:02:03"
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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I promised myself that I would be able to do a full talk in norweign about six months after coming here. A couple of days ago at the internal Bouvet One conference, I got the chance, as I was standing in for a friend…"
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# My first talk in Norwegian - Beautiful Builds

By Roy Osherove March 15, 2013

**Historical article** · Originally published March 15, 2013; technical details may be outdated.

I promised myself that I would be able to do a full talk in norweign about six months after coming here. A couple of days ago at the internal _Bouvet One_ conference, I got the chance, as I was standing in for a friend who was not able to speak. The talk was about beautiful builds, and some principles we had used in the last internal project.

I felt pretty helpless when someone finally asked a question and starting talking in english again, but I made it through the initial presentation without talking in english at all.  Was scary, but I try to put myself in these situations, since I believe that is when you learn the most.

Have fun. I hope to be looking at this in a couple of years and laugh at how bad my norwegian is.

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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