Agile 2007 Day 1
Day 1 of Agile 2007 turned out to be just like Day 1 at OOPSLA was really.. very little content with the “official” start of the conference being Tuesday. I tried to attend the Research-in-Progress workshop in the AM, but it looked like the room was filled to capacity so I decided to go ahead and opt out. With nothing else going on until 2pm, the rest of the crew and I headed out to the Carfax VA headquarters to take a tour. 
Once we got back, and some sessions finally started, I decided to attend XR02 (Experence Reports) which really captured my interest. There were three presentations. The first one was from a company who had done work with embedded systems, and described how they had written a dynamic testing framework using Ruby. It was pretty cool really.. it scanned comments in the C files to mock out modules that used the low level system. The other presentation that captured my interest was the experience report about moving applications servers, which went amongst the simple and obvious, yet not often followed, solution… put whole team, not one person, on the migration. Freeze the old code base as early as possible, with new development going on the new platform. Etcetra etcetra.
Not too much to report on today, but hopefully Tuesday will yield better results.
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August 18th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Yea, the first day was boring, I walked a lot trying to find something interesting, so much of my day was spent walking around