Technical Happenings

QCon inspired Rubiks cude solving

I attended QCon a few weeks back and Gregor Hohpe of Google was the host of the Architecture track.  This ended with a panel and each had a Rubik’s cube, only Gregor got anywhere near solving it; i think he could have done it if he had any time to look at it.  Anyway, for the past week Ive been trying to  solve it and now succeed on every attempt in less than 3 mins.  I’m pretty happy about this as i remember first seeing one on my granddads key chain in the 80’s, at which point i managed one layer and gave up . So twenty years is not much of a record, but goes to show you can return and conquer at any time.

QCon – One week on

Ive been back in the office for 1 week, so how has QCon helped.

Conversation around cloud computing has been a big hit. I got some good contacts and these have lead to investigation on using the Elastic computing and S3 services from amazon for one of our clients. Thoughts from ‘ The Zen of Agile Management’ have allowed me to view our Agile and Prince 2 processes in a new light; I expect my observations to work round to discussion and change in the coming weeks. Also the Domain Specific Language knowledge has invigorated conversation around framework and language selection on projects. All in all a good week.

Facebook – Finding the owner of lost things

Yesturday I found a company pass in the street.  It had a name and a picture on it so I typed in the name to Google, found a facebook page and sent a message.  Owner and pass reunited.  The joy of tech.  Also I feel more warmly towards facebook,  as Ive found a use.  I may have to wait another 2 years or so to find something else to return, but it will be worth the wait