April Fool's Conferences

The Waterfall 2006 conference on April 1, 2006 looks hillarious. Lots of great talks planned! For example, in regards to Web development:

The only important design elements to tie down are those that affect the project's buzzword compliance. The project must be implemented using trendy technology and some forethought is required as trends may change over the three months it will take to implement. You don't want to be stuck trying to sell something based on a 1999 also-ran like J2EE when all the cool companies have moved on to Ruby-on-Roids.

And the talk about Working Harder, Not Smarter reminds me of something that certain executives at my previous job might have gone to...

—Michael A. Cleverly
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 22:10

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