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July 15, 2009,
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The "interesting economic times" and breaking my leg in February have combined to put me into a reflective frame of mind about careers.
July 14, 2009,
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Many of the talks from EuroPython were recorded as either audio or video; My keynote was captured as video.
July 12, 2009,
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The impact of the Google Chrome OS, told through (probably excessive) metaphor.
July 3, 2009,
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People who've made the switch to dynamic languages seem much, much happier. I was a bit out of sorts from jet lag and travel in general when I entered the Birmingham UK conference and suddenly a wash of good feelings poured over me. "Ahh! Python Programmers!"
June 16, 2009,
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I showed up at the organizational meeting for the ANSI/ISO C++ standards committee because Bjarne Stroustrup asked me to. I knew him from my early C++ work and from conferences, and I suspect he considered me a friendly influence.
June 2, 2009,
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I regularly receive requests for career advice, and I've tried to capture the answers in this blog, and in a follow-on. For those of you who asked but never got an answer, I apologize. Your questions stimulated me to work on this, and it's taken awhile.
May 5, 2009,
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Both social networking and votable newsfeeds are one-dimensional. Combine the two and you get a kind of Pandora for stories, and for discovering people who like the kind of stories you do.
May 4, 2009,
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An interview with InfoQ; also includes what I've been up to: writing, theater, conferences, management issues, painting, "First Steps in Flex," opinions on web development, and "Thinking in Java."
April 25, 2009,
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A science-fiction study for an upcoming writing group meeting. However, I honestly believe this could happen, and happen in a way similar to what I describe here.
April 21, 2009,
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I finally figured out the right analogy for software
development. Alas, the target audience for this analogy won't be happy
with it.
April 18, 2009,
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The Internet accelerates everything. We now watch companies go from "the next great thing" to "meh" in the space of a few short years.
April 17, 2009,
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Retrospectives allow you to analyze what worked and what didn't about a project so you can do better in the future. How often, though, do people have either the resources or the wherewithall to do a retrospective on a complete disaster -- arguably where we'll learn the most?
April 9, 2009,
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Some notes of my own, and some collected from other attendees.
April 7, 2009,
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I have yet to toot my first tweet. Most of social networking has been lost on me. Too much noise, not enough signal.
March 14, 2009,
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In a recent discussion, there were assertions that C++ was a poorly-designed language. I was on the C++ Standards Committee for 8 years, and saw the decisions take place. I think it's helpful to understand the language choices for both C++ and Java in order to see the bigger perspective.
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