{"id":3975,"date":"2013-04-26T12:19:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T12:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2013-04-26T12:19:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T12:19:39","slug":"ibm-impact-developer-unconference-next-week-you-gotta-come-tim-oreilly-grady-booch-and-yours-truly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/ibm-impact-developer-unconference-next-week-you-gotta-come-tim-oreilly-grady-booch-and-yours-truly\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Impact Developer Unconference next week &#8211; you gotta come. Tim O&#8217;Reilly, Grady Booch and Yours Truly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jgovernor-media.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/files\/2013\/04\/impact-unconference.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3976\" alt=\"impact unconference\" src=\"http:\/\/jgovernor-media.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/files\/2013\/04\/impact-unconference-300x102.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"102\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I must admit I am getting pretty excited about the IBM Impact Unconference next week. I have been involved with the event for a few years now, helping IBM to to recalibrate around practitioners, rather than just\u00a0enterprise\u00a0purchasers, but it seems like we finally have critical mass. IBM can&#8217;t win without getting buy in from developers, so it needs to think and act differently.<\/p>\n<p>If you do want to engage developers you want credible leaders to bring them in, and to that end, I am proud that I will be on stage with two heroes &#8211; Grady Booch and Tim O&#8217;Reilly.<\/p>\n<p>Tim is a visionary, and a role model. As I like to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RedMonk stays four years ahead of the market by staying four years behind Tim O&#8217;Reilly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tim also helps all of to remember we should <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2009\/01\/work-on-stuff-that-matters-fir.html\">Work On Stuff That Matters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Grady meanwhile is not just a great computer scientist &#8211; he is also a speaker of great poetic beauty, and a deep thinker about human responsibility. Every line of code a developer writes has a moral dimension, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of podcasts to whet your whistle. I talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.websphereusergroup.org\/gwcgroupsowner\/go\/podcast\/view\/2689\">the growing influence of software developers in business today, and how and why Java isn&#8217;t dead<\/a> (hint: big data). Tim and Grady talk <a href=\"http:\/\/ibmtvdemo.edgesuite.net\/software\/websphere\/events\/impact\/unconference_audio.mp3\">about mobile, code and purpose<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit I am getting pretty excited about the IBM Impact Unconference next week. I have been involved with the event for a few years now, helping IBM to to recalibrate around practitioners, rather than just\u00a0enterprise\u00a0purchasers, but it seems like we finally have critical mass. IBM can&#8217;t win without getting buy in from developers,<\/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-3975","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-127","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975","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=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}