SD West – the begining

Posted in personal, technology by pedro | Friday, March 7th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

Due to our time, I will be describing SD West from the past perspective. California is great place to be, we sow so much vineries and of course Golden Gate. Than we move to sierra nevada near Lake Tahoe. One fact : The State of California (the size is similar to Poland) can be supplied for 5 years by the water drying from this lake. Than we were riding through mountains to Santa Clara. We saw nice views, so much snow. Great journey.

Next I bought my dreamed MacBook Pro machine. And so far I’m very glad of it. So this post is from my new machine.

So the first day on SD West was short, we’ve see some of the Expo and a keynote “Is Agile Really Working for You?” It was some sort of nice speech. Than we are in Intel museum, and what’s funny that all places are prepared to came with kids.

One thing to mention is Monterey Aquarium, the must see from my perspective.

Ok the next day was intensive one. First of all I went for “Clean Code:Ruby” and it was good choice. Robert Martin is great speaker. He was full of energy, and he made great speech.

Next I go for Johanna Rothman “Guerilla Agile: Stop Playing Schedule Games”. The Johanna’s experience was huge, She talks about many different situation, and what to do. So many examples, so much knowledge, hopefully there was a rest due to lunch meeting.

And finally the last presentation Jeremy Manson and Paul Tyma about “Java Performance Myths”. They pointed out some myths about performance. This was good technical presentation.

So far so good, there are two more days to describe in air view. And than I will write about few of this session in details.

See you.

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about me

My name is Sebastian Pietrowski. I've finished Warsaw University as Master degree. I started my journey with Java 1.1 with Thread and JDBC programing in 1998 as I worked for merlin.pl. In 1999 I've passed Java Programer Certificate for Java 1.2, and was solution architect of merlin.pl infrastructure when we was moving from pl/sql to J2EE. It was great performance optimization with 10 times more req/sec than in requirements and 85 times faster as original solution.

Currently I work as Expert Software Development Java at F.Hoffmann-La Roche. The company was founded in 1896 and today, Roche employs over 80.000 people. After work I'm involved in activities related to Scala/Lift, Ruby/Rails/Merb, Python/Django. This is because I try to be pragmatic also I'm focused on application performance and tuning with success in my daily work.

My Yoda's motto: Do, or do not. There is no try.