My personal-professional highlight last week (Sept. 29, 2004) was having a pint of Guinness with Rockford Lhotka after his presentation at the Denver Visual Studio User Group Meeting.
Rockford was in town (Denver, CO) via the INETA folks to present architectural concepts surrounding his work on creating the CSLA.NET application development framework. I didn't have time to present my Anaconda/Ostrich theory of object serialization to him because we were too engaged in talking about more serious things like micro-machines that you can sprinkle in your hair, and each night when you go to bed, they wake up, climb up to the top of each hair and snip a bit off, then climb back down and wait 'till tomorrow night, putting the entire barber industry out of business. When I said micro, I meant really really micro. I tied this concept into our discussion of SOA Analysis and Design (Services Oriented Architecture), and how it compares to Object Orientation. I have a feeling Rocky didn't buy the connection of SOA to these micro-machines. I'm not exactly sure why ...
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