Owen,
Great to hear from you. I've been hearing about you for years everywhere
from SFI to SFC, but alas our paths have not yet crossed. I may have
come to Sun (1999) a little after you left, from what our mutual
acquaintance Jan (also a Sun alumnus) has told me of the history of
things. I joined the FRIAM alias because of a suggestion from Stephen
Guerin - as I have recently discovered the delights of SFC. (Also David
West suggested FRIAM to me this year at OOPSLA.)
Yes, I've been back here in Santa Fe since '05. (Also lived here in the
early 80's.) And, I am on LinkedIn as 'Grant Holland and Associates'.
Tryin' to do that consulting thang. Same thing I did at Sun for a decade
- design and build large-scale enterprise (Java) applications and
infrastructure systems for mostly F500 companies and biggov
institutions. Don't know if there's a whole lot of that around here -
except for maybe the labs. Likely, my opptys will come from where they
always have - the coasts.
And I took a look at your website. Your 'Math typesetting' July 2008
blog made my day! and was worth the entire cost of the visit! I
definitely need that.
I liked your quote from Chris Moore. I never could buy all that Occam's
razor stuff anyway! >:o
Hope to finally meet you face-to-face - maybe at one of the SFs, or at
FRIAM.
Take care,
Grant
Owen Densmore wrote:
On Feb 25, 2010, at 12:06 PM, Grant Holland wrote:
Dear FRIAM...
I'm excited and happy to subscribe to the group. (Thanks for the
invite Stephen, - and David.) For many years I have architected and
implemented large-scale (mostly Java) enterprise software
(applications and systems) for corporations and gov. institutions
mostly in North America on behalf of a number of major computer
systems vendors (e.g. Sun).
...
Hi Grant, sorry to be so late responding. I was at Sun as well, I
suspect our paths crossed. http://backspaces.net/
I'm taking CS500 at UNM this semester, and Cris Moore, the prof and
SFI faculty member made an interesting comment:
We find in physics that the simplest, most beautiful solutions are the
most likely to be correct, almost as if there were a wonderful,
elegant designer behind things. While in constructed things, like
computer science, we often find the reverse: they are very hard to
understand and often the best solutions have an Advisory trying to
make a worst case solution intractable.
Apologies to Cris for the misquoting, but an interesting thought.
Are you here in Santa Fe? Linkedin has a profile including Grant
Holland & Associates. If so, you may be interested in the SFComplex:
http://sfcomplex.org where a lot of complexity goes on!
-- Owen
On Feb 25, 2010, at 12:06 PM, Grant Holland wrote:
Dear FRIAM...
I'm excited and happy to subscribe to the group. (Thanks for the
invite Stephen, - and David.) For many years I have architected and
implemented large-scale (mostly Java) enterprise software
(applications and systems) for corporations and gov. institutions
mostly in North America on behalf of a number of major computer
systems vendors (e.g. Sun).
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