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OOPSLA '03 was concluded for my part today with a panel discussion on "Application Servers - One size fits all...or not". Microsoft, Oracle, Sun and IBM was represented, but the questions did not lead to any real substance. Microsofts Technical Evangelist on the scene was as usual excellent and way more drilled than the other participants.
On tuesday I caught the norwegian consultants from BEKK present their solution for the norwegian educational department, and attended a tutorial on UML 2.0. The additions and alterations to the UML standard are made to facilitate MDD (Model Driven Development). This seems to have been the hot potato on this years OOPSLA. MDD and MDA (Model Driven architecture) has caused the fiercest fight (sadly I missed that panel).
Finally a panel on XP and Agile coaching gave me a better overview of coaching without breaking any new ground -> too much consensus.
Yesterday was dedicated to a panel on Test Driven Development and concluded with a session on the status of XML (and related technologies) by Don Box and a team coming down from the PDC. It was my first Don Box pres. and I have to say I liked his style, although not all participants agreed. Some found it unstructured and hard to follow. Too bad he didn't sum up any Indigo stuff, or had time to stay 30 seconds after the talk.
My voyage continues through the scorched countryside with San Fransisco as the next big stop.
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Well, then I made it to the PDC after all, as I am using their free connection now (LA prices for netusage are insane so it's actually a treat). Just met norwegian Morten Abrahamsen and Clemens Vasters in the lobby and I hope to meet more familiar people in my roaming.
Have no ticket but it's still fun to have been here, plus free sodas;)
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I arreived in Anaheim on Saturday night after driving from San Diego through the raging fires of southern California. A true disaster! Just barely making OOPSLA registration saturday night, sunday became a long day as I missed daylight savings and got up at 5 am.
Yesterday I attended three tutorials, of which none were right on the spot for me. An introduction to AOP was interesting until the details of AspectJ took the upper hand. A session on how to write effective usecases delivered nothing really new and a tutorial on SOA and WS did not at all compare to Clemens Vasters and Steve Swartz Architects Tour earlier this year.
Beeing a student volunteer at OOPSLA my first duty was to organize the tutorial held by Martin Fowler this morning. Fun getting assigned to someone thats written a lot of the literature we have used in school. Martins session was really good, working his way through his book “Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture”. The session cleared all uncertainties I had with the book and will certainly make me use it more actively.
In a mostly Java dominated croud, Fowler talked in warm words about several .NET based solutions, especially the DataSet and the ASP.NET PageController architecture. Nice to get it stated from a heavyweighter after having had several tech discussions last night with the java crowd.
At the moment I'm on my way up to the PDC to see if there are any possibility to get into anything the next days. Too bad not to get in beeing merely 30 minutes away.
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Well, after four weeks in Fidels Cuba and another two in Mexico I feel like I've returned to civilization (no offence to cubans or mexicans) with last nights passing of the Tijuana border to San Diego.
My stay in Mexico was not quite optimal though as we got robbed after 15hrs and I lost, among other things, my Dell D600 notebook computer. The machine will be partly replaced by insurance, but a lot of work and photos won't.
Anyways, life does go on, even though I can't spend hours and hours in starbucks with the lovely built in WLAN card, nor show my work to potential employers in the US.
In the next couple of weeks I've to do a LOT of catching up. 6 weeks offline makes you feel completely off, and I have to be prepared for OOPSLA.
Anyways, nice to be back and I'm looking forward to once again beeing able to follow all of your posts!