Okay, so it's my 2nd day of stuff at OOPSLA. Here are some observations.
Tutorials: As suspected, these do not seem to be where the real action is. Sounds like we scheduled them okay though; not much else going on Sun/Mon. But make sure you pick ones that you don't know -anything- about. I've been to three that were esentially driven around particular books, and if you're planing on reading the book or have read it, the tutorial is probably redundant.
All mine are oriented towards object design, since I consider that to be a weaker point in my toolbox, but I think in aggreate these have all helped a lot. My favorite so far has been Kevin Henney's talk on effective interface design. He had to rush at the end, but was pretty enganging, and there was a lot of profound, thought provoking stuff in the talk.
Last night, we hung out with Gregor Hohpe and went to Region for dinner, which was really tasty. Gregor's a great guy; he gave us a lot of crap for missing his talk, but it was his misfortune for being scheduled opposite Eric Evan's Domain Driven Design tutorial.
Let's see...we also took a quick trip to the Salk Institute, which I believe is where my friend Rashmi did some graduate work. Lorin (from work) is really interested in architecture, and the building was designed by one of his favorite architects. From the outside, it seemed like a boring goverment building, until you get around to the coastline side, and it's got great teak inlays which contrast with the concrete, all kinds of windows at 45 degree angles facing the water. Pretty nice overally. Here are a few pictures of the wanderings.
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Flikr? What happened to your gallery you were designing for BD?
Yeah, well, Flikr exists and works, whereas mine isn't up an drunning yet, and I wanted to post some pics...although with iPhoto unfortunately, my motivation is much decreased, aside from wanting to actually finish some software...
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