Following on from my previous final post, I did, in fact write up my C++ code formatting ideas. You can read them on my new developer blog, levelofindirection.com, starting from here.
I have more "Organic Programming" related material to post there too, so please check in from time to time.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Organic Programming gets closures
In other words I'm closing the book.
I've not actively worked on this for a couple of years now and it's a subject that would require a lot more investment (in time) to really coalesce it into a subject in it's own right.
Of course I still believe in all the principles involved, and use them in my work and life. But they exist perfectly well outside of OP - which was only ever trying to bring them under one title and put a software development spin on them.
The trouble with doing that is it's hard to keep an identifiable focus without losing too much of what you wanted to say in the first place.
Another thing that's happened, or maybe I just didn't notice it before, but since I started this, back in 2003 I get the impression that many of the things I wanted to bring to a wider audience are more widely known now anyway. Certainly when speaking to people the typical response has gone from, "now that sounds interesting - tell me more", to, "yeah, and have you heard about X which takes it even further?". So I feel I have less of a mission.
Organic Programming is not dead, although you could say it's "decomposing". Maybe I'll come full circle in the future and open this up again.
I will follow through on my promise one day of explaining my code formatting style, though.
I've not actively worked on this for a couple of years now and it's a subject that would require a lot more investment (in time) to really coalesce it into a subject in it's own right.
Of course I still believe in all the principles involved, and use them in my work and life. But they exist perfectly well outside of OP - which was only ever trying to bring them under one title and put a software development spin on them.
The trouble with doing that is it's hard to keep an identifiable focus without losing too much of what you wanted to say in the first place.
Another thing that's happened, or maybe I just didn't notice it before, but since I started this, back in 2003 I get the impression that many of the things I wanted to bring to a wider audience are more widely known now anyway. Certainly when speaking to people the typical response has gone from, "now that sounds interesting - tell me more", to, "yeah, and have you heard about X which takes it even further?". So I feel I have less of a mission.
Organic Programming is not dead, although you could say it's "decomposing". Maybe I'll come full circle in the future and open this up again.
I will follow through on my promise one day of explaining my code formatting style, though.
Monday, April 16, 2007
The other 99 percent
Last week was the ACCU conference. On saturday I gave my presentation on "The other 99 percent", formerly known as, "Meta-Intelligent Design".
Overall it went reasonably well - at least considering the fact that I was still hung-over from the speaker's banquet, and the drinks that followed, the night before - oops!
A handful turned out, which was better than I expected as Herb Sutter was stealing the limelight with his last minute appearence. Of course there were some other attractive tracks on offer at the same time, too, so I had some stiff competition. Thanks to everyone that showed up! And thanks for bearing with me.
I'll definitely try and update here more in the near future. Keep watching.
Overall it went reasonably well - at least considering the fact that I was still hung-over from the speaker's banquet, and the drinks that followed, the night before - oops!
A handful turned out, which was better than I expected as Herb Sutter was stealing the limelight with his last minute appearence. Of course there were some other attractive tracks on offer at the same time, too, so I had some stiff competition. Thanks to everyone that showed up! And thanks for bearing with me.
I'll definitely try and update here more in the near future. Keep watching.
Friday, February 16, 2007
ACCU Conference 2007
I will be speaking at this years ACCU conference again on the subject of Organic Programming. This time my presentation will be called, "Meta-Intelligent Design".
You can find the me in the conference schedule here.
Please come along and join the fun!
This time I have a whole 90 minute session (as opposed to the 45 minute session I had back in 2004), so I'll have a chance to develop some of the themes in more detail. However, this is not just a rehash of the same material. In the intervening years I have had a chance to reflect more on what Organic Programming is all about and I hope to present a fresh look at the subject.
I also have the intention of posting more here, but please don't hold me to that too strictly as my newborn daughter takes up a lot of my time!
On a related note, some time back I started a more general blog (from which the last link was an entry). If you're already interested in Organic Programming you may find this post interesting too
You can find the me in the conference schedule here.
Please come along and join the fun!
This time I have a whole 90 minute session (as opposed to the 45 minute session I had back in 2004), so I'll have a chance to develop some of the themes in more detail. However, this is not just a rehash of the same material. In the intervening years I have had a chance to reflect more on what Organic Programming is all about and I hope to present a fresh look at the subject.
I also have the intention of posting more here, but please don't hold me to that too strictly as my newborn daughter takes up a lot of my time!
On a related note, some time back I started a more general blog (from which the last link was an entry). If you're already interested in Organic Programming you may find this post interesting too
Friday, August 19, 2005
What's this blog about?
I've been promising people for a long time that I'm going to put down in writing what I have in mind when I talk about this thing I call Organic Programming.
Two years have passed since I coined the phrase to describe a collection of ideas I was trying to bring together into one synergetic union. In that time I have revised which concepts I think fit under the umbrella, and which are perhaps just noise. Interesting noise, maybe, but muddying the waters of something I want to work as a whole.
As yet I still have nothing more in writing than a simple Mind Map I put together when doing a presentation on OP at the ACCU conference over a year ago.
So I thought that maybe opening a blog on the subject would encourage me to post bits and pieces as I have time and as they occur to me, as well as providing a convenient vehicle for comments from interested observers (you never know!).
Well, that's all I'm going to say for now. I'll try and post again soon and actually say something about what it is - but now here's leaving you in suspense...
Two years have passed since I coined the phrase to describe a collection of ideas I was trying to bring together into one synergetic union. In that time I have revised which concepts I think fit under the umbrella, and which are perhaps just noise. Interesting noise, maybe, but muddying the waters of something I want to work as a whole.
As yet I still have nothing more in writing than a simple Mind Map I put together when doing a presentation on OP at the ACCU conference over a year ago.
So I thought that maybe opening a blog on the subject would encourage me to post bits and pieces as I have time and as they occur to me, as well as providing a convenient vehicle for comments from interested observers (you never know!).
Well, that's all I'm going to say for now. I'll try and post again soon and actually say something about what it is - but now here's leaving you in suspense...
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