ACCU Conference post-hangover stuff
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We're back from our week at the ACCU Conference[^] in Oxford. :beer::beer::beer: It's been a pretty mad week. Highlights included:
- A fascinating one day workshop on the Erlang[^] functional language
- Having the opporunity to chat to people about the problems they face and our own product (we had a stand at the conference this year)
- Pete Goodliffe's "A Tale of 2 Systems" session, where he ably illustrated the quality of system architecture using the "Goodliffe Steaming Turd/Gold Crown Scale" (tm)[^].
- Peter Summerlad on C++ Refactoring and Unit Testing plug-ins in Eclipse
- Roger Orr on the "Seven Deadly Sins of Debugging"
- Hearing enough inside information on C++ 2009 (the next version of the C++ Standard) to realise how much we still have to learn!
- Being repeatedly bought drinks by John Lakos (the author of Large Scale C++ Design[^]). This is known by ACCU insiders as "being Lakosed"...
- Post-conference snowballs (!!) on Sunday morning outside the hotel
Lowlights included:
- The day after getting Lakosed. Owwwwwwwww!
- Discovering that our site had been defaced by a script kiddie (it looks like our host was targetted rather than us, fortunately) and having to spend time fixing the resultant mess.
All in all it has been a great week, and we'll definitely be back next year. :cool: Blog Posts[^] A few pictures[
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
Post-conference snowballs (!!) on Sunday morning outside the hotel
I hope that's not a Clerks reference :-O --------- I'd love to pick up some functional programming again - it's hard to wrap my head around it, but it's a challenge I'd like. Currently struggling with a 3rd party "API-compatible update" - that requires a different import library, but functions go by the same name. Guess what, it's not backward compatible, and I have to support both.
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
blog: TDD - the Aha! | Linkify!| FoldWithUs! | sighist -
We're back from our week at the ACCU Conference[^] in Oxford. :beer::beer::beer: It's been a pretty mad week. Highlights included:
- A fascinating one day workshop on the Erlang[^] functional language
- Having the opporunity to chat to people about the problems they face and our own product (we had a stand at the conference this year)
- Pete Goodliffe's "A Tale of 2 Systems" session, where he ably illustrated the quality of system architecture using the "Goodliffe Steaming Turd/Gold Crown Scale" (tm)[^].
- Peter Summerlad on C++ Refactoring and Unit Testing plug-ins in Eclipse
- Roger Orr on the "Seven Deadly Sins of Debugging"
- Hearing enough inside information on C++ 2009 (the next version of the C++ Standard) to realise how much we still have to learn!
- Being repeatedly bought drinks by John Lakos (the author of Large Scale C++ Design[^]). This is known by ACCU insiders as "being Lakosed"...
- Post-conference snowballs (!!) on Sunday morning outside the hotel
Lowlights included:
- The day after getting Lakosed. Owwwwwwwww!
- Discovering that our site had been defaced by a script kiddie (it looks like our host was targetted rather than us, fortunately) and having to spend time fixing the resultant mess.
All in all it has been a great week, and we'll definitely be back next year. :cool: Blog Posts[^] A few pictures[
Thanks for the informative blog posts and for the pictures. ;)
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We're back from our week at the ACCU Conference[^] in Oxford. :beer::beer::beer: It's been a pretty mad week. Highlights included:
- A fascinating one day workshop on the Erlang[^] functional language
- Having the opporunity to chat to people about the problems they face and our own product (we had a stand at the conference this year)
- Pete Goodliffe's "A Tale of 2 Systems" session, where he ably illustrated the quality of system architecture using the "Goodliffe Steaming Turd/Gold Crown Scale" (tm)[^].
- Peter Summerlad on C++ Refactoring and Unit Testing plug-ins in Eclipse
- Roger Orr on the "Seven Deadly Sins of Debugging"
- Hearing enough inside information on C++ 2009 (the next version of the C++ Standard) to realise how much we still have to learn!
- Being repeatedly bought drinks by John Lakos (the author of Large Scale C++ Design[^]). This is known by ACCU insiders as "being Lakosed"...
- Post-conference snowballs (!!) on Sunday morning outside the hotel
Lowlights included:
- The day after getting Lakosed. Owwwwwwwww!
- Discovering that our site had been defaced by a script kiddie (it looks like our host was targetted rather than us, fortunately) and having to spend time fixing the resultant mess.
All in all it has been a great week, and we'll definitely be back next year. :cool: Blog Posts[^] A few pictures[
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
C++ 2009 (the next version of the C++ Standard)
We'll see, I'm sure. They did say they were desperately trying to avoid 0x meaning 0xA (10) with a silent A...:rolleyes:
Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
Post-conference snowballs (!!) on Sunday morning outside the hotel
I hope that's not a Clerks reference :-O --------- I'd love to pick up some functional programming again - it's hard to wrap my head around it, but it's a challenge I'd like. Currently struggling with a 3rd party "API-compatible update" - that requires a different import library, but functions go by the same name. Guess what, it's not backward compatible, and I have to support both.
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
blog: TDD - the Aha! | Linkify!| FoldWithUs! | sighistpeterchen wrote:
I hope that's not a Clerks reference
Not at all - believe it or not I've never seen it!
peterchen wrote:
I'd love to pick up some functional programming again - it's hard to wrap my head around it, but it's a challenge I'd like.
Me too. Unfortunately hours-in-the-day conspire against me. :doh:
Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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Thanks for the informative blog posts and for the pictures. ;)
Anytime. There's a whole bunch of other people in the blogosphere posting (and Flickr'ing) about it too, so it's worth hunting around for interesting titbits. :) I didn't (for example) know they'd had a Boat Race over curly brace placement in the bar after the speakers dinner and settled the issue once and for all (K&R couldn't hold their beer, so the "right way" won!)...
Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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How long did the hangover last? And where did I put that drumkit? :-D
Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.
All day. It was horrible. X| John Lakos is one scary individual to be in a bar with! :-\
Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
C++ 2009 (the next version of the C++ Standard)
I'm not too fussed - I'm still all 'woot' about lambdas getting in there...
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We're back from our week at the ACCU Conference[^] in Oxford. :beer::beer::beer: It's been a pretty mad week. Highlights included:
- A fascinating one day workshop on the Erlang[^] functional language
- Having the opporunity to chat to people about the problems they face and our own product (we had a stand at the conference this year)
- Pete Goodliffe's "A Tale of 2 Systems" session, where he ably illustrated the quality of system architecture using the "Goodliffe Steaming Turd/Gold Crown Scale" (tm)[^].
- Peter Summerlad on C++ Refactoring and Unit Testing plug-ins in Eclipse
- Roger Orr on the "Seven Deadly Sins of Debugging"
- Hearing enough inside information on C++ 2009 (the next version of the C++ Standard) to realise how much we still have to learn!
- Being repeatedly bought drinks by John Lakos (the author of Large Scale C++ Design[^]). This is known by ACCU insiders as "being Lakosed"...
- Post-conference snowballs (!!) on Sunday morning outside the hotel
Lowlights included:
- The day after getting Lakosed. Owwwwwwwww!
- Discovering that our site had been defaced by a script kiddie (it looks like our host was targetted rather than us, fortunately) and having to spend time fixing the resultant mess.
All in all it has been a great week, and we'll definitely be back next year. :cool: Blog Posts[^] A few pictures[
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
A fascinating one day workshop on the Erlang[^] functional language
So, did Joe Armstrong come over the way he did on the video? :-)
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
Blog Posts[^]
Nice posts - particularly liked the one[^] with the deliberate mis-spelling of observation - very appropriate :-)
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
Erlang ... functional
I always prefer Haskell for functional programming - I just like static typing, I guess, especially when it's done well like Haskell does it.
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
A fascinating one day workshop on the Erlang[^] functional language
So, did Joe Armstrong come over the way he did on the video? :-)
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
Blog Posts[^]
Nice posts - particularly liked the one[^] with the deliberate mis-spelling of observation - very appropriate :-)
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
Erlang ... functional
I always prefer Haskell for functional programming - I just like static typing, I guess, especially when it's done well like Haskell does it.
Stuart Dootson wrote:
So, did Joe Armstrong come over the way he did on the video?
He's a lot more animated in the flesh!
Stuart Dootson wrote:
Nice posts - particularly liked the one[^] with the deliberate mis-spelling of observation - very appropriate
It is isn't it? Not intentional, and unforrtunately all too easy to miss in that volume of text, particularly when it was written on a PDA in raw HTML. :rolleyes:
Stuart Dootson wrote:
always prefer Haskell for functional programming - I just like static typing, I guess, especially when it's done well like Haskell does it.
I've not tried Haskell yet, but not doubt I will sooner or later. :cool:
Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"