I’ve been deciding which sessions to attend at OOPSLA 2006. There’s a lot going on so, unfortunately, I’m going to have to miss some intersting ones. Ther Onward track is particularly insteresting but i want to achieve a balance.
Here is what I have decided:
Tuesday
Brenda Laurel Designed Animism: Poetics of a New World
Onward!: Gabriel Conscientious Software
Onward!: Baniassad The Geography of Programming
Linda Northrop Scale Changes Everything
Panel: GoF Design Patterns: Beginnings and Futures
Wednesday
Guy L. Steele Jr. A Growable Language
Onward!: Simonyi Intentional Software
Onward!: Knöll – Pegasus: First Steps Towards a Naturalistic Programming Language an area I am very interested in.
Joshua Bloch – How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters
Practitioners Reports including some talks realted to Domain-Driven Design
Thursday
Philip Wadler Faith, Evolution, and Programming Languages: from Haskell to Java to Links
Panel: Convergence of XP and SCRUM
Panel: Young Guns/OO: The Next Generation
