{"id":1138,"date":"2007-05-31T13:17:01","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T13:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2007\/05\/31\/eclipse-on-the-street-in-hackney\/"},"modified":"2007-05-31T13:17:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T13:17:01","slug":"eclipse-on-the-street-in-hackney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/eclipse-on-the-street-in-hackney\/","title":{"rendered":"Eclipse On The Street In Hackney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I am standing on the street with my boy this morning, outside the local grocery store, watching some workmen use a digger (my son loves diggers of all shapes and sizes) when I notice someone stop on the corner and look back our way. I ignore it or don&#8217;t really take it in. A few minutes later a guy walks up and says&#8230; kind of nervously, and points to my t-shirt&#8230; &#8220;is that the Eclipse&#8230; software&#8221;. &#8220;Yes&#8221; i reply, it is. &#8220;Oh good&#8221;, he beams, and says how much he loves Eclipse- &#8220;I use it every day&#8221;. Turns out that Tim is into this weird thing called Soda, which is apparently used in scientific testing and simulation. But Tim made it sounds more like a testing game. Eclipse also has a soda acronym meaning service oriented device architecture. Anyway I am on a 115k phone modem so I can&#8217;t Google it right now, but it was fun to have a conversation with someone about tech that came from wearing a t-shirt. In Silicon Valley nobody would bat an eyelid. But in good old Hackney software is still an esoteric discipline. I really like this Eclipse t-shirt. No vendor logos. T-shirt driven marketing can certainly help if markets are conversations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I am standing on the street with my boy this morning, outside the local grocery store, watching some workmen use a digger (my son loves diggers of all shapes and sizes) when I notice someone stop on the corner and look back our way. I ignore it or don&#8217;t really take it in. A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-im","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}