info Gerd Saurer on 26 Sep 2007 07:49 pm
JAOO Day 2
Yesterday there was day to at the JAOO 2007. The Keynote was held by Eric Maier who presented his vision of programming in the future. The presentation was about bringing all the bloody code away from the Programmer. With bloody code he means code that has nothing to do for solving the current project.
The first talk of this day was by Jean Bezivin who talked about model transformation At the beginning he started explaining Models Meta-Models and al the theoretical stuff that in my opinion most of us already know. This part was a little bit boring. In the second Part he was switching to the Eclipse Model Discovery project they are doing the transformation with. The presented stuff was quit interested, the presentation technique was like a professor at the university (see one of my last postings).
After lunch we went to Eric Evans talk about strategic design. His conclusion was that you have to find your main model and build your business around it. I was thinking about the main model of the system we are currently developing - maybe I should spend a little bit more effort on this in the future.
Next talk was once again by Klaus Marquardt, this time more technical then the last one. He was talking about Complexity Management in projects. His conclusion was that you have to be very careful with KPI’s Management are requesting.
Joseph Yoder spoke about The Adaptive Object-Model which was quite interesting because we use this technique for our Event Processing Engine too. Our Event Object Types are definitions of the Event Objects that are the runtime container for Events - the objects send through the system.
The last Talk at this day was a more practical one held by Jimmy Nilsson & Kim Harding Christensen about LINQ for Domain Driven Design. I know LINQ for some time now it was just nice to see how other people solve problems with it. At the end one of the Developers of LINQ had a small discussion with the two speakers why some stuff was build in the way it is now and which trade offs they had to agree to.
After all tat there was a so called “Sun-Keynote” which was more or less an marketing event form Matt Thompson and one Sun developer I even don’t remember his name. They showed some examples with JAVA Me and Sun SPOTS. I didn’t like tat kind of marketing events titled as Keynote.
In the Evening there was an other new Event called Jam Session. There where some pizza, beer and wine and several speaker and visitors played music. We met some smart people including Jimmy Nilsson. We were speaking about the situation in Software Development in Austria and that there is no conference like the JAOO in Central Europe. He asked if we are planing to do something against this. I am really thinking about this since last year I have been to JAOO. Lets see if we can do this.
