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Frank Sauer
Eileen Sauer |
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Eileen Sauer has worked in IT from 1986, and was independent from
1994 to 2005. In March 1997, she walked into a large room at a client
site and saw nothing but chaos, except for a small island of sanity
within that room.
She learned that this island sheltered five Smalltalk developers who
were evaluating a relatively new technology called Java. Now, epic
religious wars aside, whether they programmed in Smalltalk or Java
didn't matter; what did matter was that quite often someone would come
running up to them yelling: stop the presses! We have a change in the
requirements! This is a disaster! What is it going to cost us? And
this group would blink, consult with one another, and return with the
following response: it will take anywhere from five minutes to two days
to fix. And roughly 90% of the time, it was five minutes. In spite of
the obstacles (8+ years of structured programming and unsuccessful
attempts with C++), she recognized that whatever it was that this
group knew, this was the key to evolving out of that primordial soup
represented by the rest of the room.
Fast forward to the present, which is a world away from 1997. What
Eileen gained, through a combination of luck and hard work, is an
ability to teach a solid foundation in Java, object-oriented, and
distributed computing concepts to just about anyone, whether they
are technical or not.
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