some notes about alan kays' speech at oopsla; hope to find more soon, or a link to his skript, or ... no importa?

ward cunningham: some quotes (don't know, forbidden to enter c2.com ¿?¿)

his plea to programmers at his OOPSLA keynote speech; "Make it work, make it correct, make it fast, make it cheap

coverage by eugene wallingford, knowing and doing

After lunch came Ward Cunningham's talk on systems of names. I have been looking forward to this talk for a couple of months, and Ward didn't let me down. He told a story, which is what Ward does. The story wove together the many ideas and contributions from his career -- including objects, CRC cards, patterns, wikis, and XP -- and drew out a theme that captures Ward's magic. It's not magic, though; it's an outlook on life, an attitude: Be Receptive to Discovery

greg vaughn, potential difference

Another topic I’m seeing in various places, tutorials, practitioner reports, etc., is an analysis of what Architecture really is. One tongue in cheek definition given by Douglas Schmidt at a tutorial about the Forgotten Craft of Software Architecture is that architects are those people whose development skills are too oudated to still be developers, but don’t look good enough in suits to be managers. I’m following the thought that architects act as a bit of an O/R mapping layer.

he took some notes during alan kay's turing lecture.

the LipoBattery. Developers have excess fat: they should use it to feed the fuel cells in their laptops. When you sit down to code on a long plane trip, plumb a thin tube into an area of unwanted adipose tissue, and let the battery suck power from you while you lose weight. For home-based developers, special chairs could have small needles built into the seat: just sit down and your computer bursts into life. The longer you code, the more weight you lose. It’s a perfect feedback loop. It’s synergy.

Or is that thinergy? (<link text="pragdave" to="pragprog.com" %>

A Spanish-language version of Windows XP, destined for Latin American markets, asked users to select their gender between "not specified," "male" or "bitch," because of an unfortunate error in translation. (zdnet)

anyhow, must have been a funny coming together at the international geographical union congress.