what do I know

This talk was given by Hal Helms. Unfortunately, for the people attending the conference, Hal had his laptop confiscated by the Canadian border patrol on a trip in January. He gave a short talk about civil liberties and then went into his impressions about the current state of the programming job market and his impression of the “threat” of outsourcing. He advocated programming smarter (i.e. - education in software engineering) but acknowledged that this wasn’t necessarily something which could guarantee an American edge in the battle for the job market. Hal advocated the idea of getting better via the process of architecting and managing projects from a technological perspective using Interface Driven Architectures (IDAs). This is basically the idea of fortifying some form of prototype and locking down the UI to avoid feature creep later in the development process. Hal indirectly encouraged a huge of time spent on domain modeling which was encouraging to hear.

Overall, it was good to hear any perspective on the state of our industry but the session was a little light on content.

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• Frameworks Conference 2007 : Testing Frameworks
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