The Nerd, the suit and the Fortune Teller | The Coffeehouse

jeffsand
Inch by Inch

Clemens Vasters (the nerd), Rafal Lukawiecki (the suit), and Pat Helland (the Fortune Teller) gathered in front of an audience in excess of 1500 people at TechEd EMEA on July 2, 2004 for this combination skit and technical discussion.

the nerd, suit and fortune teller

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The Suit and the Nerd begin with the conflict between the businessman who is struggling to see the value he is receiving from his technology investments and the technologist who is confident in his use of the latest technology in implementing the solutions his boss has requested.

As the tension between them unfolds, the fortune teller arrives to describe the ways in which service oriented architectures offer hope for meeting the needs of both the businessman and the technologist as they both strive to meet their goals. This session offers a light hearted and fun exposition of the latest technology trends in enterprise computing.

Jeremy W
that blogging guy

Tried to watch it earlier. Got a permission denied error. Tried to email Pat from his site... Ditto...

I'll try again tomorrow at work Smiley

jeffsand
Inch by Inch

I just updated the URL to point directly to the video, it should work now.

Dr. Shim
Inaniloquent monomathical people inlapidate me.

I really liked this one! It was very informative, and confirmed some stuff that I was considering for a while now.

This is a really good presentation.

Jeremy W
that blogging guy

Still getting an error:

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The source filter for this file could not be found...

At home and work, same error.

Ah well Smiley

MrDee
MrDee

try going back to pat's home page and clicking the videos link THEN try the video - this worked for me (after a failed initial attempt going direct to the video page)