Scaling right and left

[hoho]

I would like to talk my experience of rethinking everything over and over again: template engines, model-view-controller pattern, build scripts. About splitting things into pieces. About some ways to keep yourself motivated. Regarding to an experience of working in a quite large and heterogeneous IT company.

And my talk has no much flesh for the moment. Just a few bones in my mind. With this issue I'm setting up a challenge for myself (I have an experience in talking tech talks, but all of them were in Russian). I am ready to give a preparation reasonable efforts to make this talk interesting.

[mikeal]

I like the premise, have you had some time over the last month to work out any more of the details?

[hoho]

I keep regularly thinking about it, sometimes I make notes.

Basically, it is the story about my experience and some conclusions I make.

Like: — What is the difference between working on a big public project and working on a bunch of small ones. — Why reinventing the wheel is good and why reinventing the wheel is bad. — What do I make some tiny things (like https://github.com/hoho/concat.js, https://github.com/hoho/conkitty, https://github.com/hoho/histery and probably a few things that are not published yet) for. — Some observations about Life, the Universe and Everything.

No big deal, but I guess it could be fun.

[hoho]

Just let me know if you need some more details for easier decision.

It's probably worth to note that the company I work for has a pretty solid culture of preparing for public talk. Even though I'm going to talk for myself, I can expect all the help from my colleagues (for example, in cleaning out my English and in cutting off the bullshit).

[hoho]

And more to the details.

I would like to talk about the idea that no general-purpose language is good enough to solve domain-specific problem. It's turning out that I would be able to show proof-of-concept examples of my DSL for MVC applications. And present my elaborations in this area.