24 September 2007

JAOO 2007

Posted in Conferences at 8:29 pm by kkj

It’s that time of the year again: September and time for JAOO. This year I have been asked to share my thoughts with a wider audience at the special JAOO blog on Version 2. It means, this posting will most likely be the only one about JAOO 2007 on this blog, and that you have to be well versed with Danish to read the subsequent impressions from the conference.

JAOO is the one conference, where I cannot move more than 10 meters before running into someone I know. It is simply amazing how among 1200 people this phenomenon seems to take place every year, regardless off the fact that I have only got some 240 people in my address book. I guess that means a) my address book is not complete and b) the concentration of people with whom I have a 1-degree (as in 6-degrees, remember?) relation is rather large here.

The keynote this Monday morning was refreshing. Robert C. Martin of ObjectMentor gave a good solid list, sprinkled with vivid examples of what to do and what to certainly NOT do when building software. For instance, the old truth that Netscape came to learn the hard way: “don’t ever throw out the old system … ever” was repeated, as was the fact that architects should be thrown from the ivy tower to the keyboard to ensure some sanity in frameworks.

Kresten Thorup acting as timeline from big-bang to agile software development. Robert C. Martin to the left.

The rest of my day prior to the party will be filled with virtualization … read all about it at Version2.

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