OOPSLA 2007

Episodes

1. 24

   Episode 24: Keynote -- Pattie Maes

   Speakers: 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 all of the information...

   Oct 25, 2007
2. 23

   Episode 23: Keynote -- Gregor Kiczales

   Speakers: 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 see software when...

   Oct 25, 2007
3. 22

   Episode 22: Keynote -- David Lorge Parnas

   Speakers: 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 longstanding themes of his work, Parnas...

   Oct 24, 2007
4. 21

   Episode 21: Keynote -- John McCarthy

   Speakers: 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 Speech Acts.

   Oct 24, 2007
5. 20

   Episode 20: Keynote -- Frederick Brooks

   Speaker: 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.

   Oct 24, 2007
6. 19

   Episode 19: Keynote -- 50 in 50

   Speakers: 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 Gabriel at an ooPSLA, then you know that their...

   Oct 23, 2007
7. 18

   Episode 18: Keynote -- Second Life

   Speakers: 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 Environment.

   Oct 23, 2007
8. 17

   Episode 17: Keynote -- Kathy Sierra

   Speaker: Kathy Sierra The second ooPSLA 2007 keynote features author, teacher, and A-list blogger Kathy Sierra, on Creating Passionate Users.

   Oct 23, 2007
9. 16

   Episode 16: Keynote -- Peter Turchi

   Speaker: 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 Next Story.

   Oct 23, 2007
10. 15

    Episode 15: The Eclipse Technology Exchange

    Guest: 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 announced the first round of Eclipse...

    Oct 15, 2007
11. 13

    Episode 13: Aggressive Learning

    Guest: 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, change is a central fact…

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    Oct 1, 2007
12. 12

    Episode 12: Using FindBugs in Anger

    Guest: 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 to this risk. Then...

    Sep 24, 2007
13. 11

    Episode 11: Unit Testing Patterns

    Guest: 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 systems. Automated unit...

    Sep 17, 2007
14. 10

    Episode 10: Agile Software Development on a Global Scale

    Guest: 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. But these days, software...

    Sep 10, 2007
15. 9

    Episode 9: Garbage Collection and Transactional Memory

    Guest: 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 the hardware…

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    Sep 3, 2007
16. 8

    Episode 8: Juha Pekka-Tolvanen on Domain-Specific Modeling

    Guest: 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 as C++ or Java, or…

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    Aug 27, 2007
17. 7

    Episode 7: Gary McGraw on Security

    Guest: 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 Cigital, have studied...

    Aug 20, 2007
18. 6

    Episode 6: Agility Unlimited

    Guest: 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 face different…

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    Aug 13, 2007
19. 5

    Episode 5: Software Architecture

    Guest: 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 shape of a system is the only way…

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    Aug 6, 2007
20. 4

    Episode 4: Ruby

    Guest: 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 surprised by their productivity...

    Jul 30, 2007
21. 3

    Episode 3: MiniPLoP at OOPSLA

    Guests: 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 patterns -- to document their…

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    Jul 23, 2007
22. 2

    Episode 2: The Scala Experience

    Guest: 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 functional programming. His most...

    Jul 16, 2007
23. 1

    Episode 1: No Silver Bullet

    Guests: 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 been thinking about...

    Jul 5, 2007