May 3rd, 2010
I’m giving a presentation on “Learning to Love Software Maintenance” at the sponsored by the in beautiful downtown Trenton, NJ on May 4, 2010. You should be there so you can meet and hear some of the other great speakers at the conference, as well as whatever clever jokes may occur to me while I’m presenting my material.But if you’re stuck in some other part of the world, or if you think that Governor Christie has turned out all the lights in Trenton, or if you’re just plain lazy, you can to download the (11MB) Powerpoint file for the presentation — not just a wimpy PDF file, but the full-blown Powerpoint file, which is published under a GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).It has links from all of the amazing photographs used in the presentation to the Flickr page from whence they came (and which are available for your use under a Creative Commons license), as well as bullet-point notes that indicate what I was talking about when I displayed each picture.
May 15th, 2010 at 6:04 am
Good sir – Imagining you well ensconced and keyboarding in Rome I cast my mind back over what I know of your career (I think I came across Udell and BYTE before … not sure) and wondered what you might write. What came up was, “A Principled Practitioner’s View”.
“Oh my”, I thought, “that’s far too earnest.”
So I came to your blog to see what you’ve been up to. Almost immediately: ” “Learning to Love Software Maintenance” … haaa! (Parley-vous FMECA? Failure Mode Criticality Analysis? Gaddd I adored that stuff!)
Good to see there are steady hands on the helm!
my best
ben