Sysadmin Field Notes

October 20, 2005

It's the last day of OOPSLA, which is good, because I've had about as much talk about objects as I can handle and would like to return to real life at this point.

One thing I'm taking away is that I'd like to write more code. Work of course goes in fits and starts depending on place in the project cycle, and I need to write more code, if for nothing else other than practice or to expiriment with new ideas. I'll be trying to figure out how to better do that.

On Tuesday night we attended Eric Evan's Domain Driven Design "BoF" session. That resulted in a spirited discussion, of which the takeway was pretty much what we at some level knew already. That it's going to be our responsibility to help the business customers understand the back-end model, because it doesn't just have technical limitations, there are real business limitations imposed that have to be taken into account (sadly).

Other than that, we've had great dinners each night; Tues night was Russian-Georgian food at a place called Pomegranate. Wonderful stuff, highly recommended. Last night was Sushi Ota, which was good as well. The Unagi was excellent. It was the same bunch of people both nights: Pravin, Gregor, Yuji (software developer from Japan), Lorin, Aman, and me, augmented by one of Lorin's old high school friends last night. Pravin and I kept the arguments about our relatively useless but heavily embedded middleware to a minimum. In a crowd like that it's okay to talk about software, but still not okay to prattle on about work.

So, it's been a educational time, I'll probably make a post with my notes/thoughts on each session once I think about them a bit.

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