Portland Bound

A few weeks ago there was an announcement at work where they were accepting abstracts to take part in a technical exchange program between my work site in San Jose and our IBM work site in Beaverton, Oregon, just outside of Portland (and right next to Nike world headquarters).  Since it wasn't any extra work for me, I recycled my abstract about Test Automation (see previous entry for slides and audio recording of my talk) and submitted it.  It got accepted, and now I get to go up to Portland this week and preach the gospel of Test Automation and recommend that other groups adopt the framework and I and the team I work on developed.  In addition to me getting to go, two more guys from my group get to go.  Tony is going to talk about Continuous Integration while Michael is going to talk about our contributions to Lucene (open source text search engine written in java).  The only bummer is that since I had to book the trip last minute all the flights back to San Jose on Sunday evening are booked, so I can't have Timber come up and spend the weekend with me there.  So I am going to fly up there on Wednesday evening, have the event on Thursday, and fly back on Friday morning.