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First Worksop
On the first day Emanuel and I (further referred to as we) went to the Eclipse Technology Exchange. This consisted of 15 small lectures with a short discussion session afterwards. Although the topics of the lectures were differing from each other It was not interesting especially because interaction was nearly not existent.

Chinese Restaurant
In the evening we went to a Chinese restaurant together with Peter Sommerlad. In spite of the fact that all three of us did not order much. We received a huge amount of food which we were not able to eat although it tasted really good. Afterwards we directly went to bed because we were tired from the long and exhausting day.

Morning Run
The second day I went for a morning run through the city and the “Mont-Royal” park. I started at six o’clock when it was still dark and therfore it was quite hard to find the way through the park up to the view point. Finally I arrived and I had a great view over the whole city by an absolutely nice morning mood.
During my run I noticed an interesting thing, namlely that at this time in the morning only sportive people (runner, biker) are in this park. Back in the hotel I went to the fitness room for stretching. There I met Erich Gamma so I took the opportunity I took to talk a little to him in Swiss German.

Second Workshop
Through the second day we attended the workshop No Silver Bullet which was way better than the first! Many well known people where in this little room. Martin Fowler, Bill Obdyke, Steven Fraser, Dennis Mancel, Brian Foote, Robert Biddle, Ricardo Lopez to name a few. In totally we were about 15 people and a lot of interaction was going on. To quote Martin Fowler: “This workshop is like a day of corridor conversation”. To explain this to Oopsla unfamiliar people this is what it is all about
Nearly the whole workshop went together to lunch, once again it was Chinese food But this time we had the real experts with us (Steven Fraser).
The second workshop was an absolute success for me. It was an amazing experience to hear all the opinions of all these “important” people!

Pictures will follow soon

After a long flight (eight hours) we finally arrived in Montreal. I will point out one special occurrence during our flight. Every seat had its own entertainment program including a small monitor and tool for navigation. My neighbour had an error message on the screen. This message looked like an old Win 3.1 or Amiga window. (Unfortunately we did not have a digicam ready)

A taxi trip later we arrived at the Hyatt. During the check-in the lady at the reception told us that internet access is included for Oopsla participents. Therefore I would be able to be online all the time :-). So no problem for blogging…

Below is the welcome screen and the remaining time for my internet acces!

Tomorrow at midday I will sit in a plane ready for departure to Montreal, Canada. Finally, the time for the Oopsla has come. Earlier on this blog
I wrote about our three posters but I did not mention the tutorial of our boss, Peter Sommerlad, about Green Bar for C++ - Unit Testing and Refactoring C++ .
Moreover I did not mention our (Emanuel’s and mine) attendance to two workshops. On Sunday to Eclipse Technology Exchange 2007 and on monday to No Silver Bullet - a Retrospective on the Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering.
Of course I will write about them too…

Next blog entry will be from Montreal… if I find some way to access the internet.

Hello again!

After three and a half weeks of military service I am back to the civil life.
Yes, I was “released” a few days ago (last Friday). To close with this exhausting service I decided to give me the ultimate kick. Thus I started at the Greifenseelauf which resulted in a little debacle. Therefore it is no surprise that I still have sore muscles but enough moaning for today… I am sure all will be better tomorrow =)

During my absence I have received a lot of Spam comments and that is the reason why I have to moderate the comments from now on. => So be patent, if you post a comment.

As you see nothing big happened during my absence =)

Only 10 days after the first release (blogged by misto) we are ready to announce our second release.

Main improvements are:

1. Performance: Creating the dynamic proxies for the comments is now based on the file locations. Only files in the workspace will be commented
2. User Feedback during Refactoring initialisation: The user will see right from the start of a Refactoring a progress bar which could be cancelled.
3. A few Bug fixes.

Feel free to open new tickets and to help to improve our plug-in.
Thanks in advance!

Info see Project Site and Update Site

We the IFS handed three posters in for the Oopsla in this autumn. One for C++ Refactoring support for the Eclipse CDT another for Ruby Refactoring support for Eclipse RDT and a third for Green Bar for C++ (CUTE). All are project we are currently working at.

All three Posters got accepted by the Poster Committee. So somebody has to stand by the posters to explain and discuss our work. For that reason Sommerlad needed some assistance.

Today my boss Peter Sommerlad made THE decision. Both Emanuel and I can go to the Oopsla 2007 in Montreal, Canada.
I am really looking forward to this happening.

Oopsla we are coming…