May 2019

For the past couple of years, LiveCode conferences have been virtual events, but this year there was an in-person option along with a streaming option for those who could not travel. It was a great time! The LiveCode team is truly a great bunch of people, and the community is equally lovely. It was good to connect with a number of people I've met before as well as make some new friends. Here are some highlights...

In the middle of prepping one of my talks for the upcoming LiveCode conference in San Jose, I ran into an article by Turing award winner Fred Brooks titled No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering. Written in 1986, I found so many of his observations prescient of issues I faced while building the Scenario Designer app that the paper completely changed the direction of my talk.