LPW Slides: Badger Power
The slides for my Badger Power talk are here, complete with extended footnotes. http://badgerpower.com/talks/lpw2008/start.html This culminates in a bit a rambling rant about how hard it is to write generic software, why OO is fundamentally broken, and why coder reuse is more important than code reuse. http://badgerpower.com/talks/lpw2008/slide58.html I only mention this because a) it ties in nicely with something Ovid blogged about a few days ago (coincidentally on the same day I gave the talk, although I missed it until this morning, which was probably a good thing for the people in the audience). He also mentions Schwern's skimmable code talk of which I'm a fanboy. http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/37975 And b) it's an issue that cropped up in several different talks at LPW, including something that Matt Trout said (reported via another talk) along the lines of "This isn't fucking rocket science... so why is it so hard to write reusable software?". I don't claim to have any answers, btw. Nor is Badger the panacea for any|all of OO's ills. Far from it. But I do think skimmable/skimpy code is a Good Thing. Pictures of cute animals seems to help, too. And finally, thanks to everyone for making LPW a most enjoyable day. A
Re: LPW Slides: Badger Power
Andy Wardley wrote: > The slides for my Badger Power talk are here, complete with extended > footnotes. > > http://badgerpower.com/talks/lpw2008/start.html > > This culminates in a bit a rambling rant about how hard it is to write > generic software, why OO is fundamentally broken, and why coder reuse is > more important than code reuse. Very good slides - I missed the talk, and the footnotes help carry you through them. Thanks v. much. I must say I'm a bit disappointed that it wasn't about how you were bitten by a radioactive badger and now have the ability to snuffle through hedgerows and spread TB to cattle. That's probably me though :-) -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd
Re: LPW Slides: Badger Power
2008/12/1 Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The slides for my Badger Power talk are here, complete with extended > footnotes. > > http://badgerpower.com/talks/lpw2008/start.html Thanks Andy! Great talk. I'm afraid I was so engrossed (and also slightly self-concious about being late) that I neglected to video the talk despite standing next to a tripod (yes I suck doubly) with a video camera in my bag, and was so engrossed that I failed to take any notes and instead ended up writing some notes on it during somebody elses talk afterwoods (sorry Tomboh). A quick check of the footnotes really adds some life and jogs my memory from the talk so that's very helpful. A. -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting
Re: LPW Slides: Badger Power
Richard Huxton wrote: I must say I'm a bit disappointed that it wasn't about how you were bitten by a radioactive badger and now have the ability to snuffle through hedgerows and spread TB to cattle. That's probably me though :-) Oh that happened too. I just didn't have time to fit it into the talk. A
