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Impressions from JAOO 2008 (3)
Saturday, October 4th, 2008By Jan Reher, Senior Developer, Systematic Software Engineering A/S. jan.reher@systematic.com.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Guy Steele and Richard Gabriel: 50 in 50
It was theatre. It was beautiful. I will not attempt to give a summary.
For those open to the message, it should serve to remind us of our place in history.
Kevlin Henney and Frank Buschmann: Five considerations [...]
A lively talk
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008I’m here attending Dan Ingalls (Smalltalk guy) who has hooked up with Sun Microsystems and done something they call the lively kernel. It is kind of an IDE running in your browser in Javascript, using SVG to display everything, and has a really Sqeakish look and feel.
Since it is Dan Ingalls, it has that whole [...]
A Dozen Patterns of Conference Attendance
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008These patterns where composed last night at the Jam Session by the Gang Of Drunks (GOD). They are patterns for conference attendance – focused on maximizing ROI.
With no further ado and no more motivational speech, the patterns are:
Suppress Bodily Functions – Having drunk deeply from the stream of free swag, free food and not least, [...]
Random attendee profile
Monday, September 29th, 2008One of my tasks here at JAOO 2008 is to pick up random victims among the participants and expose them to a short, sweet questionnaire. My first one was an visitor from Norway:
- Where are you from?
Norway.
- What is you programming language of choice?
Java.
- What is your current language at work?
Java!
- What’s the best free [...]
Random attendee profiles
Monday, September 29th, 2008And, two more attendee profiles for today. Note: when different answers were given for one question, they are separated by “|”.
- Where are you from?
Danish company called Digital Health.
- What is you programming language of choice?
C# | Java
- What is your current language at work?
Powerpoint! (As we currently work at architectural level, and so do [...]
Running – a pleasure reserved for the lucky few
Monday, September 29th, 2008Tuesday is the day of the JAOO IT-Run. The event is sold out, so if you didn’t already register, you’re left with the pleasure of watching fit and not so fit nerds suffer through a full danish mile of weary footsteps – and waiting for the winner to be declared.
If you did register, remember to [...]
Cloud computing – all fluff and no stuff
Monday, September 29th, 2008Twitter rumor has it that the cloud computing sessions are all fluff and no stuff – but that’s just the nature of the issue, I guess … or is there Ho(h)pe for more substance?
JAOO History part IV – A New Hope
Sunday, September 28th, 2008A long time ago in a small country far far away… JAOO 2000 was the fourth JAOO conference, J2EE was on the top of hype curve. Ruby was the new hope.
Along comes demo day … a tale of impeccable timing.
Monday, September 1st, 2008No blog without posts that are not-quite on-topic, right? I thought that the following story was good fun – and that you might too. Therefore, with no further ado, a tale:
Being on a Scrum project, Sprints tend to come to an end – and demoing the developed software is part of the routine.
So, along comes [...]