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]]> http://eightbar.co.uk/2007/10/31/in-the-presence-of/comment-page-1/#comment-239875 Mon, 19 May 2008 19:46:19 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/2007/10/31/in-the-presence-of/#comment-239875 […] 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 […]

]]> http://eightbar.co.uk/2007/10/31/in-the-presence-of/comment-page-1/#comment-209858 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:25:04 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/2007/10/31/in-the-presence-of/#comment-209858 […] 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. […]

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