Robert Di Falco

I am the CTO of products at Tripwire, Inc. Most of my career has been spent working on programming interfaces, class interfaces, and reusable programming assets in general. Today I spend most of my time trying to bridge the gap between a user's mental model of how they want to work and a programmer's implementation model. Most of my recent reading has been around Product Management, IxD, and UxD. Weird places indeed for an engineer to hang out.

You can check out some marketing stuff on the latest version of the product at: http://www.tripwire.com/. The 7.6 version is currently shipping and I'm pretty excited about it.

Contact Information:

: Robert Angelo DiFalco
: Portland, OR 97204
: http://www.tripwire.com
: mailto:rdifalco@tripwire.com

Some recent books I've liked:

Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love -- Marty Cagan
An Underachiever's Diary -- Benjamin Anastas
ThePragmaticProgrammer
Intelligent Information Agents -- MatthiasKlusch (Ed.)(highly-recommended)
High Performance Cluster Computing (Volume 2) -- RajkumarBuyya (highly-recommended - especially the chapters on TupleSpace and Concurrency in Java)
JavaSpacesPrinciplesPatternsAndPractice
Information Warfare and Security -- Dorothy Denning

Some of my favorite books are:

Full of Life -- the one and only John Fante
Complexity : The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos -- M. Mitchell Waldrop
TheMythicalManMonth
Working with Objects -- TrygveReenskaug
SoftwareArchitectureInPractice
ComputersAsTheatre
Object-Oriented Software Construction -- BertrandMeyer
Software Reusability : Applications and Experience (Acm Press Frontier Series) -- Ted J. Biggerstaff Editor (specifically the chapters by JosephGoguen)
DesignPatternsBook
Object-Oriented Software Engineering : A Use Case Driven Approach -- IvarJacobson
Object-Oriented Design with Application -- GradyBooch
Applying UML and Patterns -- CraigLarman
Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer -- EdwardYourdon
ComponentSoftware - Beyond Object-Oriented Programming -- ClemensSzyperski

Some of my favorite music is:

Wolfe Parade
Elliot Smith
Arcade Fire
Devandra Banhart
Bright Eyes
Jolie Holland
Nick Drake
Modest Mouse
Neutral Milk Hotel
Tom Waits
Charles Mingus
June of 44
Ornette Coleman
Karate
Charlie Parker
Thelonious Monk
Built to Spill
Pavement
Sonic Youth
Sebadoh
Billie Holiday
Nina Simone
Captain Beefheart
Mozart (especially Great Mass in C Minor and The Requiem)
Bella Bartok

Some of my Pages

CppUtxOverview -- my very first contribution to Wiki
GeneralizeOnExceptionBehavior -- needs to be shortened
BlocksInJava -- get rid of redundant sections on InternalIteration
HierarchicalVisitorPattern -- in progress
BlackboardMetaphor -- AssociativeMemory idiom
ComputeServer -- AssociativeMemory idiom, nasty, but at least I started it. Should probably clean up and use one of the CategoryPatternForm entries.
GreatDesign -- I liked this one
EntryAsMetaObject
DistributedComposite

Pages I don't want to forget to keep working on....

DoEngineersNeedOpportunists -- another rant
CommunalDevelopment -- just a little refactoring
InheritedJavaSingletonProblem -- WayneConrad and I, at some point, will try to put this into DocumentMode.
CppUtxOverview -- mine for the Restricted Compositeinto pattern format and onto their own pages (this is a composite that does not have the collection interface in the Leaf components)
DesignPatterns -- find non-GangOfFour patterns on Wiki and reference the appropriate Topic (i.e. CategoryStructuralPatterns, CategoryBehavioralPatterns, or CategoryCreationalPatterns) -- s**t, shouldn't have made these plural!!

The Smoking Lounge

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