I think I enjoyed Tufte's seminars more in the early days, but the 4th book is good and I think it's worth hearing some of the same old anecdotes again. I don't mind getting extra copies, as I don't keep my first edition Tufte at the office. So I won't have a volume 4 at the office until I attend the volume 5 tour. His road crew puts on a quality event. Last time I saw him, Boston Park Plaza ballroom was a better fit than his prior venue of Fairmont Copley Plaza the book before. I took my boss last time, he enjoyed it too. If you don't have 4th book, and only have one or fewer copy of 1-3, do it.
Bill, typing with thumbs ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Boston Perl Mongers <[email protected]> Sent: Fri Jan 25 20:16:27 2008 Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Edward Tufte in Boston this March On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Bob Rogers wrote: > Edward Tufte is coming to Boston on March 3, 4, and 5 to give his > famous one-day course [1]. I've never been to one myself, but I've > heard (including at Boston.PM meetings) that's it's really good -- and > the books speak for themselves. When I showed the brochure to the > CEO, his eyes lit up. So not only is our entire software development > team going to attend, plus maybe some of the scientists, but the CEO > may come too. Ehhhh.... I have the first three books, and I *really* like them. (I only found out recently that there's a fourth one now, which I don't have yet, but I imagine I'll like it too once I get a copy.) I went to the seminar he gave in Boston a few years ago (2003?), and was underwhelmed. I really wanted to like it. It was impressive to see the actual physical examples he cites in the books (text from Galileo, etc). But he also spent most of the time just reading the books to us, with kind of a "gee aren't these great" air. Which they are, I'll grant, but I was hoping for a bit more than that. Then he spent an hour or so showing us piles of metal in his yard. Great glorious photos of pillars of twisted gleaming steel. Don't ask why. If you haven't read the books, you'll get a lot out of the seminar. If you've read them, you'll get the re-read to you. Oh and you'll get another copy of the books. So there's that, too. I'm glad I went, once, but was underwhelmed overall :-/ -- Chris Devers DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
