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07/24/09 PHD comic: 'Definition of Vacation'

Tue, 07/28/2009 - 02:17

Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "Definition of Vacation" - originally published 7/24/2009

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Measure for Measure: Quantifying the Effect of TDD

Thu, 07/09/2009 - 10:52

Summary
It is possible to measure certain properties of code, and on the one hand, correlate them with project factors known to have economic merit and on the other, with programmer-pleasing practices. This session surveys emerging evidence that we can measure the effect of the technical practices of Agile development, and explores what we might be able to do about it to our benefit.

Bio
Keith Braithwaite is a Principle Consultant with Zuhlke Engineering, and leads their Center for Agile Practice in London. He provides Agile training, consultancy and mentoring to development teams in the wholesale finance and mobile telecoms industries.

About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

Google I/O 2009: The Myth of the “Genius Programmer”

Mon, 06/29/2009 - 20:41

A pervasive elitism hovers in the background of collaborative software development: everyone secretly wants to be seen as a genius. In this talk, we discuss how to avoid this trap and gracefully exchange personal ego for personal growth and super-charged collaboration. We'll also examine how software tools affect social behaviors, and how to successfully manage the growth of new ideas.

Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman