JAOO Brisbane - Day 2

Today was the second and final day of JAOO. Once again, the quality was excellent. Here are my notes (tweets) in descending order:

 

# "code.. very sophisticated cave paintings" Dan North #jaooabout 2 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# Linda Rising's slides. Great info. http://bit.ly/WQIAH #jaooabout 2 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# reality causes clinical depression... much better to deceive yourself. -- Linda Rising #jaooabout 2 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# "Estimates must be open""Experiment and learn both from failure as well as success" "involve others because you will deceive yourself" #jaooabout 3 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# "we are hardwired to fear what we cannot control" Linda Rising #jaooabout 3 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# Linda is talking about teaching children to lie. I have often thought about that. #jaooabout 3 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# "reasons appear after the decision is made" Linda RIsing #jaooabout 3 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# Linda Rising is very funny. Similar style to Bill Cosby. #jaooabout 3 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# James Newkirk relates BDD to interaction based testing. Is that right?? #jaooabout 4 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# "Be self contained (tests)" duplicated initialization is ok James Newkirk #jaooabout 4 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# James Newkirk does not like ExpectedException because it is not AAA and it is hard to cleanup. #jaooabout 4 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# Design by Example "be explicit not cute" James Newkirk #jaooabout 4 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# dont like questions that dont get to the point or that arent questions " I think... " #jaooabout 5 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# "Microsoft... the answer is always a tool" James Newkirk #jaooabout 5 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# Complex Remote Access Protocol (CRAP) James Newkirk #jaooabout 5 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# James Newkirk does not have much nice to say about WS-* #jaooabout 5 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# talking about 'simple design' @ #jaooabout 5 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# listening to James Newkirk talk about evolutionary design. I wonder if that is like Intelligent Design? http://bit.ly/iLGvH #jaooabout 5 hours ago from TweetDeck

# lunch was good, except for the guy in front of me who picked all the olives and feta out of the salad. WTF? #jaooabout 6 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# force.com is a point-and-click application generator. Experience tells me to run for this hills. #jaooabout 7 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# D.C. is not a fan of #javascript unit testing tools. Proposes an inline pre-processor approach. Doesn't like compile-to-javascript. #jaooabout 7 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# Javascript: the good parts - best talk so far. #jaooabout 7 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# Douglas Crockford just presented his functional object constructor pattern. Not sure if the significance is appreciated. #jaooabout 8 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# "Given the process that creates web standards we deserve something much worse than this" Douglas Crockford #jaoo #javascriptabout 8 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# #javascript good parts: dynamic typing, object literals, lambdas #jaooabout 8 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# "lambda... the best idea in the history of programming languages" Douglas Crockford #jaooabout 8 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# in Douglas Crockford's #javascript talk. Feeling a bit like Wayne when he met Alice Cooper. http://bit.ly/nTPRp #jaooabout 8 hours ago from TweetDeck
   
# interesting to see the differences between java and c# generices. #jaooabout 9 hours ago from TweetDeck


   


JAOO Brisbane - Day 1

JAOO is a great tech conference that we are lucky to have in Brisbane. Here are my thoughts from day 1 (in reverse chronological order).

  1. @drnic's talk was good. Disappointing turnout. Great information in an erratic but entertaining style. #jaoo
  2. "Cucumber is awesome... picks up the ladies... or the men if your into that" @drnic #jaoo
  3. @drnic presenting some creative integration testing techniques. #jaoo
  4. @tgeros apparently there is an arms race MS/Google/Apple/Firefox
  5. @cwmyers I did, and I was not disappointed.
  6. @drnic redefines "1st person" to "the I perspective" #jaoo
  7. @drnic redefines "1st person" to "the I perspective"
  8. hard to choose between Dave Thomas's Cloud talk and Patrick Linskey's enterprise data access talk. #jaoo
  9. Dave Thomas says performance doesn't matter, because the bottleneck is DB, out-of-process calls etc #jaoo
  10. heckling going on at #jaoo. How fast is fast enough?
  11. @avibryant's talk gives me hope about javascript performance. #jaoo
  12. @avibryant's talk gives me hope about javascript performance.
  13. #duckporn @ #jaoo
  14. "Ruby is slow" @avibryant #jaoo Ruby should go faster, ruby can go faster
  15. Signing up for a preview of @avibryant's new product. #jaoo
  16. @Steve_Hayes I was, now in speeding ducks.
  17. Enjoyed Avi Bryant's talk about creating a new web application. #jaoo
  18. @RickStrahl Much of Tasmania looks like that.
  19. Coffee @ #jaoo is has quality but not quantity.
  20. Waiting for @avibryant's talk about building a new app. Hope it is not a sales pitch. #jaoo
  21. watching @Steve_Hayes tweet @ #jaoo
  22. @mtnygard "Purge data through the application" "Cycle logs based on size"
  23. @mtnygard "Retries are bad for user... Retries are bad for systems" #jaoo
  24. @mtnygard "Use Timeouts" #jaoo
  25. @tathamoddie I have 450D and I find it too large for travel. Especially if you dont want to check baggage.
  26. M. Nygard's talk on operations problems is mostly covering issues I wish I had. Very interesting. #jaoo