January 29, 2005

Wrap-up report from yesterday

An event this morning ran longer than expected so I am just now getting to the report from yesterday. I actually only have a 15 minute window of opportunity to write this at the moment so I am going to get things started now, publish it, and then come back to it later this evening to finish things up.

Russell's presentation yesterday was fantastic! This was given to the development teams at Amazon as part of their Friday learning series. Jeff Bar blogged the whole thing here. Something I learned about Russ yesterday is that not only does he grok AOSD like few others do he ia also a fantastic speaker! I'm not sure if I have mentioned this before ;) but if you haven't already, BUY HIS BOOK!!!! If you need any further signs the "oh, and we have some copies of the book available to anyone who wants one" comment that Russ made at the end of his presentation begat what I will term a "stampede" of developers who, even though:

- Amazon had provided enough copies for each and every developer, his/her spouse or girlfriend/boyfriend, any children they might have, their pets (which they can bring to work if they would like), and any fleas their pets might happen to be suffering from.
- The books were maybe 7 feet at best from the front row of seats of which only went back about 20 rows before reaching the back of the room.

When the comment was made I was knocked against the back of my chair from the wind that was generated from the wall of Amazon developers JUMPING AND RUNNING to the front of the room to get their copy -- I will add to this that Kurt Cagle (Kurt and I were given permission by Amazon to attend the presentation-- Thanks Amazon!:) and all of the connections he has inside of the book industry was one of those "rushing" the stage.

Uh oh, my 15 minutes are up... I will add a lot more to this later tonight.

'til then, enjoy!