3 weeks ago, at a local Java User Group Meetup, I won a ticket to No Fluff Just Stuff's 2019 Software Symposium held at Redmond town center this weekend. A regular ticket costs ~$1000. No vendors, just software classes held in 4 classrooms concurrently. Two 90 minute classes in the morning, and two in the afternoon, no repeat, starting at 1:15pm Friday. Dinner on Friday, breakfast and lunch on Sat and Sun. A raffle after Sunday lunch. Snacks during the breaks. Food is acceptable. I attended these classes:Friday
9:00-12:00 free class by Gradle, promoting gradle scan
13:15-18:30 Kubernetes by Johnathan Johnson (fundamentals, containier pattern, operator pattern). His online training classes at https://katacoda.com/javajon/courses/kubernetes-fundamentals
Saturday
9:00-10:30 Gradle by Kenneth Kousen
11:00-12:30 Thinking Architecturally by Nathaniel Schutta
13:30-16:45 Machine Learning by Brian Sletton (overview, NLP). References: https://tinyurl.com/bs-ml-gist
Sunday
9:00-12:30 Machine Learning by Brian Sletton (deep learning, TensorFlow)
13:30-15:00 WebAssembly Salon by Brian Sletton. webassembly.org
16:00-17:30 Decentralized Web by Brian Sletton. WebRTC, WebTorrent, IPFS. More reference.
I liked Brian's talks and Kenneth's gradle session Sat morning. The last two foretells a revolution of web in data hosting and presentation. I didn't care for the other classes, even though all of them are good speakers. My biggest obstacle is work, because I took my laptop to the classroom and was working on the side. Free also hurts concentration.
Puget Sound public transportation is a pain. The government/system simply doesn't care. Due to the east on-ramp closure of 520, bus 545 is rerouted via I-90, but none of the stops had any indication that the bus is rerouted, nor any alert on kingcounty.gov/metro website. Saturday, the bus was 12 min late, probably due to the reroute. Sunday morning, however, I waited for 43 minutes for the bus which is scheduled on a 30 min interval. I arrived 5 minutes ahead of the schedule, and the bus never came. A couple of very angry passengers on the next bus got off at Overlake which is many miles away from where they wanted to get off, simply because their stop is not serviced this weekend.
