Friday, October 18, 2002

What a night. So I went down to the Wang Auditorium - Boston University Corporate Education Center for our .NET User's Group meeting and got "hijacked" by John Lam and Ingo Rammer stalking the hallways after a day of WinDev. Since I had to give up free pizza to go with them, we all went out to some fantastic barbecue at Smokey Joe's in Nashua. John needed another PC to do nasty CLAW stuff to in prep for his talks tomorrow (today?) so we went back to his hotel room and just spent hours digging into his Runtime Aspect Weaver. I haven't spent much time with this before so I was really amazed at how powerful this stuff is. There is so much potential. I can think of many product uses for this: enforcement of Design by Contract, company standards, logging and tracing, unit test enforcement, and more. Of course, some of the way he implemented this is quite sinister-) and when he weaved onto (into?) System.Windows.Forms.dll, I thought it was the end of my PC-). It still seems to be working. Of course, the three of us shared war stories as well as talking about many things. Ingo has pictures in case my PC does break to blackmail John-) 1:38:43 AM