Category Archives: conferences
No:SQL (east) 2009
As you may have noticed, there has been a lot of talk around NOSQL “movement” lately. The name, NOSQL was created to describe non-traditional data storage engines and techniques to address concerns of data sets of horizontal scale. Innovations such … Continue reading
Axum, Reactive Framework and other Lang.net items
A few weeks ago, the 2009 Lang.NET symposium was came and went and there were a few talks that caught my eye. There were many great talks including those by some of the following luminaries: Philip Wadler Erik Meijer Anders … Continue reading
Announcing the Lean Kanban Conference
I’ve been working with David Anderson and crew to produce the Lean Kanban Conference in Miami, February 18th-20th. There are a number of great speakers and some folks that have been practicing Kanban and flexing Agile methodologies with Lean thinking … Continue reading
Ayende on Advanced NHibernate
There’s this cat called Ayende that’s been around the NHibernate block (20 or 30 times). In Austin, he did a 3-hour workshop detailing the advanced features of the tool. If you weren’t there, sorry you missed it. Oh wait! You’re … Continue reading
KaizenConf’08 Functional Programming Presentation Video
Last week, I provided a basic wrap up of my functional programming talk at the Continuous Improvement in Software Development conference (KaizenConf) in Austin. Little did I realize that I was indeed being filmed while I talked by Mark Leon … Continue reading
Code Contracts for .NET 4.0 – Spec# Comes Alive
As I’ve said in many posts before, I’m a big fan of stating your preconditions, postconditions, invariants and so on explicitly in your code through the use of contracts in the Design by Contract Parlance. Spec# is a project that … Continue reading
KaizenConf Workshops Schedule
UPDATE: We will try to record the full sessions. I’m hoping some participants will bring video cameras and have at it. I’m bringing mine. First of all the temporal situation: Morning Sessions – 9a-NoonAfternoon Sessions – 1:30p-4:30p Then, we have … Continue reading
KaizenConf – Functional Programming – Is it a game changer?
Next week at the "Continuous Improvement in Software Development Conference" (KaizenConf), I will be giving a session called "Functional Programming – Is it a game changer?". In this discussion, I’ll cover the basics of functional programming, moving from an imperative … Continue reading
DC ALT.NET 10/2008 Recap – A Look at Kanban Software Development
Thanks to everyone who came out to the DC ALT.NET meeting on "A Look at Kanban Software Development" with Linda Cook. This was a great discussion about Kanban and continuous improvement with Lean Software Development techniques. Linda shared her experiences … Continue reading
Presenting the KaizenConf Workshops
UPDATE 1: Schedule is coming tonight. Each workshop is approximately three hours long. We’re going with a longer form to get more knowledge transfer, interactivity, etc. UPDATE 2: Based on space and time constraints, there will be two sessions going … Continue reading