(2009-05-08) Zed Euro Django Con

page was renamed from z2009-05-08-ShawEuroDjangoCon

Zed Shaw posted the notes from his Euro-DjanGo-Con talk. What I learned from my time at Bear is the following absolute truth: Anyone calling themselves an "EnterPrise" anything is a loser... The Enterprise failed the Financial world when it needed them most... When banks were crumbling they had no way to get information they needed to survive... They couldn't get status, data, evidence, hell even accounting records because..... the "Enterprise Class" systems and the worthless programmers that code them couldn't do it fast enough... An example: Bear-Stearns had a 10000% increase in the number of failed trades the 3 days before it died... Where was the Real Time updates to the CEO blackberry from key systems?.. The end result is that the world put their trust in programmers and software and got burned by incompetence... I didn't burn out, I was a victim of arson... Something I learned from the military is that you can learn anything... You may not become a grand master of it, and you may have to work your ass off... One secret to Learning anything is to have a plan and take it slow... The absolute worst thing about a sudden change in your life like that is realizing that you really are not that good at it... Rather than being critical (of yourself), just be aware of what's going on... No my friends, what I would love, is if you just quit fetishising technology and identifying with it... I'd be ecstatic if you stopped thinking the entire world is about code, code, code... I want you to explore this world using this unique tool of computation, not explore computation like it is the world...