Archive for November, 2008
Art and code – obscure or beautiful code?
Friday, November 21st, 2008Through the ages a lot of interesting (and some obscure) programming languages have entertained and confused people. At JAOO Aarhus 2008 Guy L. Steele and Richard P. Gabriel gave a presentation about languages and language constructs in a presentation that is a work of art in itself.
In the presentation called “50 in 50″ you [...]
Retrospectives in retrospect
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008Performing retrospectives for many years, it was not until Linda Rising gave a talk about them at JAOO that I came to know the label to put on them. Linda gave me the seminal book on retrospectives: “Project Retrospectives – A Handbook for Team Reviews” by Norman Kerth, which provided me with a lot of [...]