Well that was the most annoying business trip of my life. The short version of the story is that my flight to San Francisco sat at the gate for over two hours before they decided to offload everyone and rebook them. I ended up taking a flight into Oakland which was itself thirty minutes late. Combined with the longest AirBART bus trip from Oakland Airport in the history of mankind and I ended up being 20 minutes late for my session, which they had canceled when it became clear I wouldn’t make it. Mucho apologies to the FTP staff, though I was in contact with them thru the day so they are well aware of the effort I made to be there on time.

The most annoying part was the airplane crew who continuously assured me that I’d make it because the repairs we were waiting on would be finished any minutes. Two hours later the damage was done.

I guess if I go to Toronto or Orlando, I’ll go in the day before to avoid this happening again. I didn’t want to be gone from home the extra night since both my kids are sick. But instead, I ended up going to SFO for nothing which is worse.

FYI, I sat down for an ARCast with Ron Jacobs last month to talk about Developer 2.0. It’s not he full presentation I did at the p&p summit, but it covers much of the same ground. Catch the show over on Channel 9.

FYI, for those going to VSLive! in San Francisco, I’m a last minute addition to the schedule. I’m presenting a talk titled Developer 2.0: Finding Your Way in the Future of Software Development. I wrote and delivered this presentation originally for the patterns & practices Summit back in December. It was the second-highest rated talk of the summit (after Anders’ LINQ keynote) so I’m excited to be delivering it again. I’m hoping to get a high-quality recording so I can publish it (I recorded the p&p summit version with my laptop. You can hear it but I wouldn’t say it’s “high quality”). The session is at 5:45pm on Tuesday. I’ve been told it’s in room 2016/2018, but you should double check when you get there if you’re interested in going.

There’s a solid showing from the Architecture Strategy Team at the VSLive! Software Architecture Summit this year. In addition to my last minute addition:

• John deVadoss’s day two keynote on Software Architecture on the Edge: Moving Beyond OA.
• Ron Jacobs on Integration, Service Orientation and Pattern Driven Design .
• John Evdemon on Workflow Enabled Services.
• Mauro Regio on Collaboration Software Factory.

See you in San Fran!

I was just talking to Michael Arrington about some Web 2.0 stuff when I realized I’ve been blogging for three years now. I started blogging three years and two weeks ago. Doesn’t seem that long ago I was sitting in a Phoenix hotel room putting the finishing touches on the blog engine that powered the first version of DevHawk. (I moved over to DasBlog just under a year later.) But in reality, there’s been two kids, a new house, four roles, five managers and a move to campus since I launched my DevHawk Blog. Quite a ride!

I got an email this morning from Richard Veryard wondering if I should now be called EdgeHawk. That’s funny. Alas, EdgeHawk.com is “Your #1 internet Hoosier Racing Tire source” so I think I’m going to stick with DevHawk…at least for now.