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Part VI – Return of the Jedi?
By Aino Vonge Corry | September 30, 2008
2002….. Can’t really figure out who the Jedi is here, perhaps it was Andy Hunt & Dave Thomas who came back for the third year in a row to do their Pragmatic show? In their show, they quoted Giga Information Group for the prediction that 2/3 of all corporate IT will be using an Agile method within the next 18 months. Is that so even today?
Or perhaps the Jedi was the introducer of Eclipse – Erich Gamma – at that point known for Patterns, mostly because he happended to be the first (lexicographically) of the Gang of Four.
Or maybe Martin Fowler introducing us to refactoring?
And … tada … 2002 or the year, where the Nokia 6310i was the prize.
In 2002 J2EE was still hot. JAOO was still very much Java all over, even though .NET snug in via Michael Stals tutorial; “Tutorial J2EE versus .NET – Step by Step Comparison”. And Ole Lehrmann Madsen gave a talk with the title “Early Experience with Language Interoperability – Porting the BETA language to Java and .NET”. Modulo the source language, that’s still a hot topic today.
This was also the year where we introduced the “Grand Panel Finale”, expertly moderated by Ron Crocker, and the first JAOO IT-run for static software developers and “normal runners” took place. In 2008 we have experimentally suspended the closing panel, but the IT-run is still very much alive.
