TITLE: An Index to the OOPSLA Diaries
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: November 08, 2005  3:00 PM
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I have now published the last of my entries intended
to describe the goings-on at
<A HREF="http://oopsla.acm.org/">
   OOPSLA 2005</A>.
As you can see from both the number and the length of
entries I wrote, the conference provided a lot of
worthwhile events and stimulated a fair amount of
thinking.  Given the number of entries I wrote, and
the fact that I wrote about single days over several
different entries and perhaps several weeks, I thought
that some readers might appreciate a better-organized
index into my notes.  Here it is.

Of course, many other folks have blogged on the
OOPSLA'05 experience, and my own notes are necessarily
limited by my ability to be in only one place at a
time and my own limited insight.  I suggest that you
read far and wide to get a more complete picture.
First stop is the
<A HREF="http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/OOPSLA05">
   OOPSLA 2005 wiki</A>.
Follow the link to "Blogs following OOPSLA" and
the conference broadsheet, the Post-Obvious Double
Dispatch.  In particular, be sure to check out
<A HREF="http://www.laputan.org/catfish/">
   Brian Foote</A>'s
excellent color commentary, especially his insightful
take on the
<A HREF="http://www.laputan.org/catfish/archives/000109.html">
   software devolution</A>
in evidence at this year's conference.

Now, for the index:

<STRONG>Day 1</STRONG>

<UL>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2005-10.html#e2005-10-16T21_52_27.htm">
        The Morning of Extravagaria</A>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2005-10.html#e2005-10-19T10_11_31.htm">
        Writing Exercises at Extravagaria</A>
</UL>

<STRONG>Day 2</STRONG>

<UL>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2005-10.html#e2005-10-17T21_54_33.htm">
        Morning at The Educators' Symposium</A>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2005-11.html#e2005-11-04T08_34_32.htm">
        Ward Cunningham on Seeking and Exploiting Simplicity</A>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2005-11.html#e2005-11-07T19_30_03.htm">
        A Panel of the Direction of CS Education</A>
</UL>

<STRONG>Day 3</STRONG>

<UL>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2005-10.html#e2005-10-18T16_04_00.htm">
        Robert Hass on Creativity</A>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2005-10.html#e2005-10-24T19_36_27.htm">
        Sussman on Expressing Poorly-Understood Ideas in Programs</A>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2005-10.html#e2005-10-31T19_19_24.htm">
        "Mechanistic"</A>,
     a follow-up to Sussman's talk based on an e-mail
     exchange with concert pianist
     <A HREF="http://www.performancerecordings.com/">
        James Boyk</A>
     (whom Sussman quotes)
</UL>

<STRONG>Day 4</STRONG>

<UL>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2005-10.html#e2005-10-19T18_14_36.htm">
        Mary Beth Rosson on the End of Users</A>
</UL>

<STRONG>Day 5</STRONG>

<UL>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2005-10.html#e2005-10-20T15_57_16.htm">
        Martin Fowler on Finding Good Design</A>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2005-10.html#e2005-10-27T19_56_05.htm">
        Grady Booch on Software Architecture Preservation</A>
</UL>

<STRONG>This and That</STRONG>

<UL>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2005-10.html#e2005-10-18T17_20_56.htm">
        Part 1</A>:
     on grammar, Maxwell's Equations, and rants
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2005-10.html#e2005-10-20T18_46_35.htm">
        Part 2</A>:
     the Echoes and Yoshimi panels
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2005-10.html#e2005-10-25T20_43_02.htm">
        Part 3</A>:
     Geek Jargon
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2005-11.html#e2005-11-02T12_28_07.htm">
        Part 4</A>:
     Inside Stories
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2005-10.html#e2005-10-19T20_17_03.htm">
        More on Safety and Freedom in the Extreme</A>
</UL>

I hope that this helps folks navigate my various
meanderings on what was a very satisfying OOPSLA.

Finally, thanks to all of you who have sent me notes
to comment on this postings.  I appreciate the details
you provide and the questions you ask...

Now, get ready for OOPSLA 2006.
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