After all the fun of day one I was a little late arriving at day two of YOW! Sydney 2016 and unfortuantely missed the opening keynote (booooo...). But I eventually arrived back at the old Redfern train workshop, this time brandishing the Pythonic Staff of Enlightenment...
...and all set for anther day of interesting Software Development talks.
Continue Reading CommentsIt doesn't seem like a year since the Sydney software develoment community last gathered at the ATP 2015 edition of YOW!. But time flies when yu're having fun and hopefully you've spent 2016 having as much fun as I have making software and other cool stuff...
After an interesting and informative Day One, YOW! 2015 Sydney day two got off to a geektastic start with Anita Sengupta and Kamal Oudrhiri talking about their fascinating work on the Curiosity Rover. It was quite humbling to be in the presence of engineers involved in such a groundbreaking project and we heard about interesting problems the team had to solve including how to slow an entry vehicle from 30,000 mph to 0 mph in 7 mins and the infamous Sol 200 anomaly.
Continue Reading CommentsYOW! Sydney 2015 got off to a great start yesterday. The timing of Australia's leading Software Development conference could not have been more apt given our Government's recent focus on technology and innovation. Likewise the setting of the Australian Technology Park evoked the sense of possiblity inherent in Engineering disciplines, Software comfortably juxtaposed against real Hardware...
