In the presence of….
At the analysts conference here in Lisbon it turned out that Jeff Jonas, a bona fide internet celeb was also presenting a stack of 1:1 sessions. I had not read name tags but he was hanging with monkchips.
Now I often talk about the clever its of entity analytics, in particular the fact that the fact you ask a question of a dataset is data itself. A very clever and obvious idea, once you hear it. So ask a question and get ‘no’, someone else asks the same question and “hey something is going on here” a massive over simplification but worth thinking about. I will leave it to Jeff to do his thing.
So Grady Booch and Jeff Jonas have both had the pleasure of epredator’s company the last the few weeks. It feels like fanboy time :-)
The really interesting thing though is Jeff’s articulation of left column thinking here, take a look and shout, oh that’s eightbar turf !
January 29th, 2008 at 9:25 am
[...] Over on Ugotrade there is a really detailed and interesting post and interview with the great Grady Booch. He is an IBM fellow and one of the most influential people in software engineering. Virtual worlds have become very important to him. The post covers things like Bluegrass, a software development environment using the torque engine and integrated with the Rational tooling. I was lucky enough to end up at dinner with Grady at the VW San Jose as Eureka DejaVu was having a real life gathering. Grady’s humble yet worldy wise demeanour reminded me of a post that Scoble made a couple of days ago in Davos where Bono turned up and said “I am a rock star… sort of”. In the UK there is also an interview with Grady in the British Computer Society magazine entitled the Mighty Booch, which is reference to the comedy show the Mighty Boosh :-) We have not covered Bluegrass much yet on Eightbar though we are very close to the team given our shared interest in Torque. So expect more on here soon. [...]
May 19th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
[...] here. I should add that this amazing gathering we were lucky enough to be a part of also included Jeff Jonas who was being made a Distinguished Engineer which is a very big role in IBM. So present company [...]