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I have no idea what I’ve gotten myself into now, but I’ve agreed to help out the Empirical Evaluation of Software Composition Techniques workshop will be held as part of the next Aspect Oriented Software Development conference.  I doubt I will attend ESCOT or AOSD but it will be good to collaborate once more with some very enlightening people that I met at OOPSLA last year.

I guess I’ve got quite a lot of reading coming up and it will be fun to read what is coming out of the research channels and cast my own weird industrial perspective on things

In a couple of weeks I will be at the OOPSLA conference in Orlando, USA.  I am absolute OOPSLA nOOb but am already excited about it.  I’ve heard lots of nice things from the OOPSLA “veterans” at factor10 and now I can’t really wait to get there.

I will be giving a tutorial on using AOP to solve some domain problems, not just removing the infrastructural noise from your domain models.  Also, I’ve been invited to be part of a panel on my best-loved-hated subject … modularity.  I will also take part in the Cloud Computing Design workshop.

There’s also an amazing line up for the other tutorials and OOPSLA still has a “Pay for 3 and attend 4″ promotion going on.  Take advantage of it.  If you already signed up for 3, then just sign up for the 4th.  If you’ve signed up for 2, then pay for the third and register for the 4th too.

So much happening in just a short week.  But, it will be lot’s of fun and worth the 24 hour travel time from Cape Town.

Yesterday I had a telephonic chat with Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin from .NET Rocks! I tried to talk about modularity, but it kind of veered off into design in general and how an agile runtime is really important to being really agile.  A lot revolved around getting the domain understanding right before diving into object oriented design.  We touched on SOA, SaaS, UML, tools.  That’s a heck of a mess for less than an hour!

You can listen to the podcast here.  I think I just rambled on a lot about anything and everything and it felt like a wayward discussion to me at the time.  Have a listen and tell me what you think.  I really would like to improve myself for these kinds of events.

So, thanks a lot to the kind folk at .NET Rocks! for having me on their awesome show.  And for persisting with trying to get hold of me at the hotel in Lech, Austria.  I am deeply priviledged and humbled.  I hope I helped someone with my ramblings.

Oh, and many thanks to Jimmy Nilsson for all his help (again!).

I’ve mentioned it in bits and pieces before but now that the nice folk at Oredev have more or less finalised their program, I can put the down the talks I will be giving in November 2008.

• Architecture Track: Designing for Modularity – one of my pet frustration and, at the same time, fun challenges.
• Agile Track: Managing Diversity in Agile Teams – based on two years of experiences at a rather tough client.
• Java Track: Solving Domain Problems with Aspects – another big challenge for me since aspects are normally used to solve application infrastructure problems.
• Workshop: Bootstrapping your SOA Project – this is a modified version of the workshop I did for IQPC earlier this year.

I certainly did not expect to be doing 4 sessions!  It’s going to be a busy conference but also immense fun.  I hope that I get the time to attend the other talks and learn from some amazing people.  I certainly will be catching up with old friends as well

The second part of my OSGi article is up on DZone. Here’s the URL’s for both parts.

1. http://java.dzone.com/news/there-place-osgitm-enterprise-
2. http://java.dzone.com/news/there-place-osgi-enterprise-ap-0

Enjoy!