[grand-rapids-pm-list] possible speaker

[grand-rapids-pm-list at pm.org]

He is the author of what I consider one of the greatest posts ever:
http://perl.plover.com/Questions.html

I saw him at the Perl Conference way back in '99, and he puts on a good 
show.



grand-rapids-pm-list at pm.org said the following on 12/15/2007 12:58 PM:
> I'd love to have Dominus up here. I think we could even work out funding.
>
> The problem is the marketing to make it not embarrassing ...
>
> --heusser
>
> On Dec 15, 2007 10:32 AM, < grand-rapids-pm-list at pm.org 
> <mailto:grand-rapids-pm-list at pm.org>> wrote:
>
>     Here's a possible speaker.
>
>     http://perl.plover.com/appearance.html
>
>     I am not conveniently located to make arrangements for Detroit or
>     Grand Rapids, but if someone closer is interested in arranging an
>     appearance, please do.
>
>     Bruce Reed
>     Midland, MI
>
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> -- 
> Matthew Heusser,
> Blog: http://xndev.blogspot.com
>
> "...well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the 
> order of 70 percent) is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how 
> advanced, can think for you. Consequently, even if a tool did 
> everything except the thinking for you -- if it wrote 100 percent of 
> the code, wrote 100 percent of the documentation, did 100 percent of 
> the testing, burned the CD-ROMs, put them in boxes, and mailed them to 
> your customers -- the best you could hope for would be a 30 percent 
> improvement in productivity. In order to do better than that, you have 
> to change the way you think."
> -Frederick P. Brooks, [paraphrased]
> As quoted from 
> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-1999/jw-07-toolbox.html
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