PoMoPro - the first international conference on
postmodern programming

Date: Sat 25th November (LONDON)

BCS SPA Specialist Group
Venue: BCS Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street,
London WC2E 7HA, England
Cost: SPA/BCS members: £35, non-members £40

See the website for registration and more details:
http://www.bcs-oops.org.uk/pomopro.html

What is Postmodern Programming?

Lots of software is already written and can solve your
problems, if you can only get it to do what you need.
Postmodern programming is about using code that
already exists, and not writing much code yourself.
This is usually in the form of gluing together or
configuring other people's code. This is the reality
of "enterprise" software today.

Postmodern programmers recognise this fact and work
with it rather than pretend that it isn't the case and
come up with, for example, a programming language or
paradigm that would solve all programming problems
once and for all if only everybody does everything
properly - that way - the one true way. There is no
"one
true way".

The PoMoPro conference:

The aim of the conference is for attendees to learn
stuff that they can really use. There will be more
hands on programming than most conferences. It's
neither academic nor vendor specific. It's not
language or technology specific. There are only two
sessions at this first postmodern programming
conference - a keynote and a workshop.

The keynote is by James Noble and Robert Biddle, whose
OOPSLA 2002 paper "Notes on postmodern programming"
challenged the software development world to recognise
the reality of current software practice. The
workshop, facilitated by Ivan Moore and Nat Pryce, is
a re-run of "Scrapheap Challenge" that was very well
received at OOPSLA 2005. Participants are given fun,
non-trivial challenges to achieve and can construct
solutions using any means available, including any
software and services that they can find on the
Internet.

Who is it for?

This conference involves programming. It's for
software development practitioners, not for the
post-technical.

If you would like to attend, please book now as spaces
are very limited in order to facilitate discussion and
interaction amongst all participants.

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NOTE the XPDay 2006 conference on Monday 27th &
Tuesday 28th November 2006. See: http://xpday.org/