Re: [Pharo-dev] happy lessons from recent talks

2016-01-12 Thread Richard Sargent
Tudor Girba-2 wrote
> Hi,
> 
> I just wanted to share with you a bit of a different perspective on what
> we do around here.
> 
> Over the past half a year I gave several talks to some 1k technical people
> at industrial events like ArchConf, NDC Oslo and several others. The tour
> will continue this year at OOP, ArchConf and a couple of other places.
> These are places where people talk about mainstream techniques &
> technologies (like Java, JS, C#). For example, ArchConf is a premier
> software architecture conference in the US.
> 
> During these sessions, people get to experience Moose and Pharo through
> live demos. I use these demos as examples of how humane assessment
> (building your own analysis tools) can boost engineering decisions making
> in practice.
> 
> I consistently receive the feedback that the live programming
> possibilities from Pharo/Moose are impressive. But, more recently, there
> is something else worthy of being noted. If in previous years, nobody
> heard about what we do, this year I started to get consistently a couple
> of persons in the room that have heard something about Pharo/Moose before
> the presentation.

Excellent!


> This is huge. While a couple might not sound like much, you should
> remember that information (especially in this technical space) has the
> capability of spreading exponentially. What we have done over the past
> years starts to show results. We have to keep it up.
> 
> Happy New Year!
> 
> Cheers,
> Doru
> 
> 
> --
> www.tudorgirba.com
> www.feenk.com
> 
> "Problem solving should be focused on describing
> the problem in a way that makes the solution obvious."





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[Pharo-dev] happy lessons from recent talks

2016-01-11 Thread Tudor Girba
Hi,

I just wanted to share with you a bit of a different perspective on what we do 
around here.

Over the past half a year I gave several talks to some 1k technical people at 
industrial events like ArchConf, NDC Oslo and several others. The tour will 
continue this year at OOP, ArchConf and a couple of other places. These are 
places where people talk about mainstream techniques & technologies (like Java, 
JS, C#). For example, ArchConf is a premier software architecture conference in 
the US.

During these sessions, people get to experience Moose and Pharo through live 
demos. I use these demos as examples of how humane assessment (building your 
own analysis tools) can boost engineering decisions making in practice.

I consistently receive the feedback that the live programming possibilities 
from Pharo/Moose are impressive. But, more recently, there is something else 
worthy of being noted. If in previous years, nobody heard about what we do, 
this year I started to get consistently a couple of persons in the room that 
have heard something about Pharo/Moose before the presentation.

This is huge. While a couple might not sound like much, you should remember 
that information (especially in this technical space) has the capability of 
spreading exponentially. What we have done over the past years starts to show 
results. We have to keep it up.

Happy New Year!

Cheers,
Doru


--
www.tudorgirba.com
www.feenk.com

"Problem solving should be focused on describing
the problem in a way that makes the solution obvious."