Will the conference have a cool t-shirt or is that a bit too "grand
narrative"?

Ivan Moore wrote:

>PoMoPro - the first international conference on
>postmodern programming
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>Date: Sat 25th November (LONDON)
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>BCS SPA Specialist Group
>Venue: BCS Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street,
>London WC2E 7HA, England
>Cost: SPA/BCS members: £35, non-members £40
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>See the website for registration and more details:
>http://www.bcs-oops.org.uk/pomopro.html
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>What is Postmodern Programming?
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>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.
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>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".
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>The PoMoPro conference:
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>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.
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>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.
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>Who is it for?
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>This conference involves programming. It's for
>software development practitioners, not for the
>post-technical.
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>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/
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