Talking more these days

William Grosso @ December 21, 2008

For the past three years, I’ve been fairly low-profile. Almost no public speaking¹, no articles or books, and very little community activity at all²

The reason was clear: I’ve got a 2.5 year old son and, as those of you with children know, they can absorb almost all your time. So, between the family and the work and the occasional burst of thinking, there hasn’t been a lot of room for the communicating.

Apparently, that’s changing. I spoke at the Software Architecture and Modeling SIG in December about the sea-change in the web that’s quietly occuring. And I’m speaking at the Java SIG in January about next generation Java web frameworks.

Fair warning on the latter: I’m still working on the slides and at least part of the talk is going to be about how meta-object protocols increase developer productivity. I’m not sure exactly what I’m going to say yet, or why I think meta object protocols are more important now than they used to be, but I feel fairly confident that this isn’t going to be a typical “Look! Ajax that sucks less!” sort of talk.

1. I’ve moderated about half a dozen panels, and hosted several events. But no actual talks where I’m the only person speaking and it goes for more than 15 minutes. In short, nothing you’d remember.↩
2. Outside of being on the board of SDForum, of course. I’m very proud of what I’ve done over there, and have really enjoyed helping to define many of the cutting-edge events that they put on. In particular, the cloud-computing event was a hoot-and-a-half.↩

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