I attended the local CloudCamp un-conference tonight. It was a good con, with an opening session, some lightning talks, and un-panel, and then some un-conference sessions.
It was also well attended, with somewhat more than 200 people at the con.
The most interesting aspect of the con: no one talked about programming languages. They talked about databases (MySQL, Oracle, etc.), cloud providers (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc.), public and private clouds, provisioning, and big data. But not about programming languages. Nor version control, or agile development, or requirements analysis, or user interface design. As if all of these things were givens.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
CMAP and Mercurial
I attended the CMAP (Central Maryland Association of .NET Programmers) tonight, and heard a presentation on the 'Mercurial' distributed version control system (DVCS).
I'm glad that I went. I chatted with a bunch of folks and learned about DVCSs. (Actually, a few lights went on tonight, and I want to think a bit more about DVCSs.)
And today the US House of Representatives passed a two-week continuing resolution. The Senate will probably approve the bill, and I suspect that President Obama will sign it. Which means that we may be back to nail-biting in two weeks, on St. Patrick's Day.
I'm glad that I went. I chatted with a bunch of folks and learned about DVCSs. (Actually, a few lights went on tonight, and I want to think a bit more about DVCSs.)
And today the US House of Representatives passed a two-week continuing resolution. The Senate will probably approve the bill, and I suspect that President Obama will sign it. Which means that we may be back to nail-biting in two weeks, on St. Patrick's Day.
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