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I suppose we would all agree with that and that's why smart people try to develop processes to make us more predictable. On the other hand nobody likes being constrained by anything and especially a process. Some people call this kind of lack of structure freedom, some call it chaos :). From my experience a bit of process might actually help a lot whereas a complete lack of it leads sooner or later to a disaster. Scrum is one of the approaches that let people develop software in a predictable way and that's the topic of the next MTUG event...
It looks like there will be a micro MIX like event in Dublin in May - http://visitmix.com/2008/worldwide/. It might be interesting. Tags: Dublin, MIX
I suppose there is no chance to get something like this in Dublin any time soon. Tags: Dublin
After the Joel Spolsky presentation that launched IJTC there was a panel discussion which meant to explore all the future directions that Java as a platform might take. The participants were talking about the future in a kind of sad way and the discussion toured out to be mainly a never-ending stream of complaints. Basically people were concerned about:
Java 6 is not implemented on Leopard
mobile phone specs on the vendors web sites don't list Java as a feature, something like Java ready sticker
lack of...
I'm just back from London where I had really great time with my friends that live in a squat and are busy with their small independent theater. But the thing I want to talk about is the public transport in Dublin. We all know that it sucks but only when you go a city like London you realize how bad it is. To make a long story short it's enough to say that if Dublin was as big as London I would probably have to spent 6 hours on a bus from Cherrywood to the Dublin Airport. Tags: Dublin
Irish Microsoft Technology Conference is taking place next week. Though it's an overview what's out there in terms of Microsoft technology and thus there are not many sessions that explains things in depth it's worth going there. I can see really great speakers there that can reveal a few secrets having a pint with you :). I'm off to Spain for two weeks thus I will miss this conference. Tags: .NET, Microsoft, Conference, Dublin