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Episode 24: Keynote -- Pattie Maes
OOPSLA 2007 - October 25, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingSpeakers: Pattie Maes The ooPSLA 2007 keynote series closed with Pattie Maes talking about Meta-Objects for the World Around Us. Her talk was a fitting bookend to Kiczales's address in the morning, as Maes described ongoing work at the MIT Media Lab to make available a...
Episode 23: Keynote -- Gregor Kiczales
OOPSLA 2007 - October 25, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingSpeakers: Gregor Kiczales The third and final day of ooPSLA 2007 began with Gregor Kiczales speaking about a theme that has underlay his work throughout the years, from the metaobject protocol and objects to aspect-oriented programming: the role played by context in how people s...
Episode 22: Keynote -- David Lorge Parnas
OOPSLA 2007 - October 24, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingSpeakers: David Lorge Parnas A day of pioneers speaking at ooPSLA 2007 ended with another seminal thinker in software engineering, David Parnas, talking about Precise Software Documentation: Making Object Orientation Work Better. In keeping with one of the longstand...
Episode 20: Keynote -- Frederick Brooks
OOPSLA 2007 - October 24, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingSpeaker: Frederick Brooks The second day of ooPSLA 2007 opened with a keynote by computing pioneer Frederick Brooks, the author of the classic The Mythical Man-Month. His talk is on Collaboration and Telecollaboration in Design.
Episode 21: Keynote -- John McCarthy
OOPSLA 2007 - October 24, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingSpeakers: John McCarthy The ooPSLA 2007 keynote series continued with John McCarthy, the creator of Lisp and a pioneer of so many fundamental ideas in programming languages. He spoke on one of his recent language projects, Elephant 2000: A Programming Language Based on S...
Episode 16: Keynote -- Peter Turchi
OOPSLA 2007 - October 23, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingSpeaker: Peter Turchi For the first time, ooPSLA is podcasting its keynote talks. Watch this page for the full line-up! Opening the conference is acclaimed poet Peter Turchi, with Once Upon a Time, Like Never Before: The Challenge of Telling the N...
Episode 17: Keynote -- Kathy Sierra
OOPSLA 2007 - October 23, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingSpeaker: Kathy Sierra The second ooPSLA 2007 keynote features author, teacher, and A-list blogger Kathy Sierra, on Creating Passionate Users.
Episode 18: Keynote -- Second Life
OOPSLA 2007 - October 23, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingSpeakers: Jim Purbrick & Mark Lentczner The third ooPSLA 2007 keynote of the opening day is by Jim Purbrick & Mark Lentczner, the creators of the increasingly influential Second Life. Their talk is titled Second Life: The World's Biggest Programming Environm...
Episode 19: Keynote -- 50 in 50
OOPSLA 2007 - October 23, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingSpeakers: Guy Steele & Richard Gabriel The first day of ooPSLA 2007 ended with treat, Guy Steele & Richard Gabriel talking about the lessons we can learn from Programming Languages past in 50 in 50. If you've ever attended a talk by either Steele or Gabri...
Episode 15: The Eclipse Technology Exchange
OOPSLA 2007 - October 15, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingGuest: Cheryl Morris, Alex Orso, Li-Te Chang, Martin Robillard Host: Martin Lippert Over the last few years, Eclipse has grown from a simple little IDE into a platform for developing software that can be used at many levels of complexity. At OOPSLA 2002, IBM announce...
Episode 13: Aggressive Learning
OOPSLA 2007 - October 01, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingGuest: Ted Neward Host: Daniel Steinberg Anyone who develops software for a living, or who works for an organization that does, knows the challenge of keeping up with changes in technology. Tools change. Methodologies change. Frameworks change. Languages change. For us, cha...
Episode 12: Using FindBugs in Anger
OOPSLA 2007 - September 24, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingGuest: Bill Pugh Host: Daniel Steinberg Bill Pugh, a computer science professor at the University of Maryland, is on a quest. As an academic, it is sometimes too easy to lose touch with the issues that face software developers in the trenches. He doesn't want to fall victim...
Episode 11: Unit Testing Patterns
OOPSLA 2007 - September 17, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingGuest: Gerard Meszaros Host: Martin Lippert Perhaps the greatest contribution of the agile methods community to software development has been the practice of automated unit testing: the writing of tests by programs that help to specify, document, and verify the code in our syste...
Episode 10: Agile Software Development on a Global Scale
OOPSLA 2007 - September 10, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingGuest: Jutta Eckstein Host: Daniel Steinberg Agile software development methods grew up in a context of in-house development, collocated teams, and relatively shared cultural expectations. This made their emphasis on face-to-face communication and common code ownership. ...
Episode 9: Garbage Collection and Transactional Memory
OOPSLA 2007 - September 03, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingGuest: Dan Grossman Host: Markus Völter Programming languages researcher Dan Grossman from the University of Washington works on making programs safe in the context of shared memory and multi-core processors. Such research operates both at the language level and at the level of...
Episode 8: Juha Pekka-Tolvanen on Domain-Specific Modeling
OOPSLA 2007 - August 27, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingGuest: Juha Pekka-Tolvanen Host: Daniel Steinberg Every application domain has its own language. It has vocabulary, rules, and constraints. Historically, we have written software by implementing these vocabulary terms, rules, and constraints in a "high-level language" such...
Episode 7: Gary McGraw on Security
OOPSLA 2007 - August 20, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingGuest: Gary McGraw Host: Michael Kircher Software security is an issue that everyone faces but that not everyone gets right. Sometimes, our languages programming claim to provide us a level of security that they cannot deliver. Fortunately, folks like Gary McGraw, the CTO of Cig...
Episode 6: Agility Unlimited
OOPSLA 2007 - August 13, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingGuest: Jens Coldewey Host: Dan Steinberg In many domains and contexts, agile development is an accepted way to build software. How can we adapt agile methods to contexts in which they've not traditionally been used? Can we do that and succeed? Developers in some contexts f...
Episode 5: Software Architecture
OOPSLA 2007 - August 06, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingGuest: Michael Stal Host: Bernd Kolb Every system has an architecture -- even if you just start writing code. As systems grow in size, importance, and responsibility, though, Siemens' Michael Stal believes that a systematic approach to defining and nurturing the sha...
Episode 4: Ruby
OOPSLA 2007 - July 30, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingGuest: Glenn Vanderburg Host: Daniel Steinberg The Ruby programming language has taken the software world by storm, as scripting language, as development language, and as the host of the influential Rails web development framework. Programmers who come to Ruby are s...
Episode 3: MiniPLoP at OOPSLA
OOPSLA 2007 - July 23, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingGuests: Linda Rising, Joe Yoder, and Bob Hanmer Host: Daniel Steinberg When the seminal book Design Patterns made its public debut at ooPSLA 1994, the world of software developers changed forever. Soon everyone wanted to learn patterns and, even better, write patter...
Episode 2: The Scala Experience
OOPSLA 2007 - July 16, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingGuest: Martin Odersky Host: Markus Völter Many programmers know that there are paths to increased productivity that are orthogonal to objects. Language designer Martin Odersky is in the vanguard that studies how to augment OOP with techniques from the world of ...
Episode 1: No Silver Bullet
OOPSLA 2007 - July 05, 2007 00:00 ★★★★ - 1 ratingGuests: Dennis Mancl, Steven Fraser, and Bill Opdyke Host: Markus Völter Objects were not the silver bullet to solve all of our problems building software. Why not? Are there are silver bullets on the horizon? ooPSLA regulars Dennis Mancl, Steven Fraser, and Bill Opdyke have ...
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