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Ottawa Road Trip Diary, Part 1: Slow Going

Once again, Damir and I are road-tripping to a TechDays conference. This week, the destination city is our nation’s capital, Ottawa. With the wet snow and being boxed in by trucks (see the photo below), the going’s a little slow:

Here’s a trucker who’s a big fan of just-in-time compilers. Or is it just-in-time manufacturing?

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.

Joey deVilla

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