wiki.accu.org - 2013

a_framework_for_growing_effective_software_teams

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: A framework for growing effective software teams Proposer: roy_osherove Type: Tutorial Duration: 45 minutes Description: Roy Osherove explains the ideas behind the “elastic leadership” framework, and about its three phases (survival, learning and self organization), and how they correspond to different types of leadership required at each of them. He also discusses what he believes the role of the team leader is: To Grow the people on their team. You can find…

adam_petersen

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Adam Petersen is a post-graduate psychology student with a passion for software development. Combining degrees in engineering and psychology, Adam tries to unit these two worlds by making his technical solutions fit the human element.

adrian_bolboaca

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: I try to be a continuous learner and a continuous teacher, because I think good software comes from the skills of the people that are involved in the process, on each and every level. Whenever I write code I focus on reducing domain complexity to obtain maintainable software. I love to develop software that helps companies to improve their business, to implement solutions that improve their internal processes and to motivate teams to use their capabilities to yet an…

advanced_ios_development

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Advanced iOS Development Proposer: pete_goodliffe Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: iOS is a great platform to work on, and many developers have spend some time looking at the platform. This talk is aimed at programmers with prior iOS experience who want to get into iOS in more depth.

adventures_in_data

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Using data to understand how you develop software Proposer: ed_sykes Type: Experience Report Duration: 90 minutes Description: What do you do once you've achieved agility? Once you can respond to change from the business and you're delivering value predictably. Once you've adopted all the useful technical practices. Once you've created an environment that amplifies learning? Where does your next improvement come from? A report about how we're trying to use da…

agile_contracts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Agile Contracts: Building Trust Proposer: ewan_milne Type: Tutorial Duration: 45 minutes Description: The Fixed Price contract continues to be the most common means of defining contracts for software development projects, despite the amount of evidence suggesting that such contracts commonly contribute to project failure. Schedule and cost overruns, expensive change control procedures, and a lack of trust between customer and supplier are typical war stories…

agile_developers_-_your_country_needs_you

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Agile Developers - Your Country Needs You Proposer: mark_craddock Type: Presentation Duration: 45 minutes Description: The G-Cloud programme represents a change in the way government works with suppliers and enables the Public Sector to buy assured Cloud services. The Government spends £16Bn on ICT every year, find out how you can get a slice of it.

alan_griffiths

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Alan is an experienced and effective proponent of the craft of software development. Interested in development processes, tools, design and coding techniques. His expertise covers a range of programming languages, tools and platforms. A long term C++ user, Chair of the ACCU and a member of the BSI C++ Panel.

aleksandar_fabijanic

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Alex is the POCO (C++ POrtable COmponents, ) Project Lead, C++ Standard Study Group 4 (Networking) member, and ISO/IEEE Computer Society Certified Software Development Professional. Alex has been a professional programmer since 1992 - specializing in industrial automation and process control software using C and C++ since 1998. He earned a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Faculty of Engineering (University of Rijeka, Croatia) an…

aleksandra_mierzejewska

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Ola (which is short for Aleksandra (naturally)) has been working as software developer for the last 5 years. Have worked in Morgan Stanley and Bloomberg L.P., currently at Barclays. Interested in searching for the best, simple and pretty solution - not easy in the rushed everyday life full of deadlines. Finding ACCU a great aid to achieve it.

alexey_kukanov

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Alexey Kukanov is a software engineer in Developer Products Division at Intel Corporation. For 12 years at Intel, he worked on performance and threading analyzers and libraries. He is currently the architect of Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks library, the project that happily combined Alexey's interests in C++ programming, library design & development, and parallel programming. He is a co-author of several TBB-related articles. Alexey received an M.S. equivalent …

alisdair_meredith

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Email:ameredith1@bloomberg.net What the LWG did next The C++11 Standards Experience C++11 Rescues Allocators!

allocators_for_shared_memory_in_c_03_c_11_and_boost

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Allocators for Shared Memory in C++03, C++11, and Boost Proposer: frank_birbacher Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: C++ allocators are rarely looked at but for using shared memory as a means of interprocess communication they spring to mind. For a long time this was a good idea in theory but in practice not until C++11. Explaining allocators and their use case “shared memory” is the focus of the presentation. Topics of the talk are the C++03 a…

an_exploration_of_the_phenomenology_of_software_development

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: An Exploration of the Phenomenology of Software Development. Proposer: charles_tolman Type: Workshop/Discussion Duration: 45 minutes Description: First let me say that this will not be a presentation by someone with all the answers. It is to be a sharing of the more subtle aspects of software development from a practitioner's standpoint.

an_integrated_programming_language

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: An integrated programming language Proposer: julian_smith Type: Presentation Duration: 45/90 minutes Description: The programming world is full of compromise; popular languages have serious flaws, better languages are not popular and even the best languages have significant restrictions.

an_undecided_customer

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: An Undecided Customer Proposer: adrian_bolboaca Type: Workshop Duration: 120 minutes Description: Can you write code that can be changed in a matter of minutes when your requirements change? Do you write your code clean enough that you can respect the strange requirement of your customers?

andrew_sutton

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Andrew Sutton is a postdoctoral researcher at Texas A&M University where he works with Bjarne Stroustrup and Gabriel Dos Reis. His current work focuses on language support for generic programming in C++ and generic library design. He is an active member of the software engineering research community and the author of the Origin C++ Libraries: an experimental collection of libraries written in the C++11 programming language. He graduated with a PhD in computer scienc…

anthony_williams

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: I am the author of C++ Concurrency in Action, and developer of the just::thread implementation of the C++11 concurrency library. Email:anthony.ajw@gmail.com C++11 features and real-world code

applied_hierarchical_reuse_-_capitalizing_on_bloomberg_s_foundation_libraries

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Applied Hierarchical Reuse - Capitalizing on Bloomberg's Foundation Libraries Proposer: john_lakos Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: Designing one library is hard; designing an open-ended collection of interoperable libraries is harder. Partitioning functionality across multiple libraries presents its own unique set of challenges: Functionality must be easy to discover, redundancy must be eliminated, and interface and contract relationship…

arjan_van_leeuwen

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Arjan van Leeuwen is a developer at travel software giant Amadeus, where he mainly works with C++. Reliability and speed are things that matter every day, but code quality is the subject that can really rile him up. Arjan has previously worked on Opera Software's flagship product - the Opera browser - for 6 years and is active in company groups dedicated to technical education.

astrid_byro

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Astrid Byro is a mercenary who tends to work for whoever will put up with her insanity and uses whatever techniques will get her software into production. She does penance by working to raise money for Bletchley Park and The National Museum of Computing.

auto_-_a_necessary_evil

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Auto - a necessary evil? Proposer: roger_orr Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: C++11 repurposed an old keyword “auto” to allow you to declare a variable with a deduced type. For example “auto i = 10;” declares a variable

back_to_the_future_-_re_learn_smalltalk

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Back to the future - (re)learn Smalltalk Proposer: stephan_eggermont Proposer: willem_van_den_ende Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: A lot of the things in software engineering we take for granted these days are rooted in Smalltalk. But most people do not program in Smalltalk. Do you wonder if there are more pieces of brilliance in Smalltalk waiting to be picked up by the general computing community? Come and experience yourself.

bad_test_good_test

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Bad test, good test Proposer: seb_rose Type: Workshop/Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Foundational unit testing techniques are often taken for granted, but are an essential underpinning for delivering maintainable software. The tests need to assist software development not hinder it, and to that end need to be flexible, robust, comprehensible and performant. If you find yourself fighting your test suite, then something is wrong.

batoo_jpa_-_the_new_java_persistence_api_implementation_-_15_times_faster_then_the_alternatives

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Batoo JPA - The new Java Persistence API Implementation - ~15 times faster then the alternatives Proposer: hasan_ceylan Type: Presentation-Workshop Duration: 90 minutes Description: What is JPA JPA stands for Java Persistence API a JCP (Java Community Process) Specification led by Oracle and others.

becoming_a_better_programmer

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Becoming a Better Programmer Proposer: pete_goodliffe Type: Tutorial/Panel Duration: 90 minutes Description: We all want to be better programmers, right? This entertaining session will help you to work out how. With the help of a number of special guests, we will provide a series of practical, simple methods to become a better programmer. We'll gain some real insights from respected developers.

bernhard_merkle

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Bernhard Merkle works as a Software Architect and Engineer for Software Engineering in the central Research & Development Department at SICK AG, one of the world’s leading producers of sensors and sensor solutions. He serves as internal consultant for the complete Software Development Cycle and is responsible for Process- and Methods-Selection as well as Tool-Evaluation and Introduction. In his spare time he gives a lecture about MDSD (Model Driven Software Deve…

beyond_mocking-sustainable_unit_testing

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Beyond mocking - Sustainable unit testing Proposer: gil_zilberfeld Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: When you start your path in unit testing you start with selecting a test framework, and usually the next stop is a mocking framework. You tool belt is equipped.

bjarne_stroustrup

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Bjarne Stroustrup designed and implemented C++. Over the last decade, C++ has become the most widely used language supporting object-oriented programming by making abstraction techniques affordable and manageable for mainstream projects. Using C++ as his tool, Stroustrup has pioneered the use of object-oriented and generic programming techniques in application areas where efficiency is a premium; examples include general systems programming, switching, simulation, g…

brian_marick

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Brian Marick was a Lisp and C programmer in the 80's, a testing consultant in the 90's, and an Agile consultant in the 00's. This decade he's a Clojure and Ruby programmer. He was one of the authors of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and is the author of four books,

brutal_refactoring_game

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Brutal Refactoring Game Proposer: adrian_bolboaca Type: Workshop Duration: 90 minutes Description: Did you know you can have legacy code after only 15 minutes? This is why we will be brutal with the coding smells. We will take the time to refactor soon and often.

c_11_features_and_real-world_code

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: C++11 features and real-world code Proposer: anthony_williams Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: C++11 has many nifty features, but how do they actually impact developers at the code face? Which C++11 features offer the best bang for the buck?

c_11_for_the_rest_of_us._simpler_code_with_more_power

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: C++11 for the rest of us. Simpler Code with More Power! Proposer: peter_sommerlad Type: Preconference workshop Duration: 360 minutes Description: With the publication of the new C++11 ISO standard one might ask what that will mean to current or past skills in that language. In addition one could recognize that even Microsoft leans back to use native C++ instead of the .NET languages for some new developments to get more power from smaller hardware.

c_11_rescues_allocators

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: C++11 Rescues Allocators! Proposer: alisdair_meredith Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: Allocators are widely regarded as one of the less useful parts of the original C++ standard library, yet all of the containers pay the cost of carrying an allocator parameter. What could we do to make this feature genuinely useful in C++11?

c_11_the_future_is_here

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: C++11 The Future is Here Proposer: bjarne_stroustrup Type: Keynote Duration: 60 minutes Description: C++ allows you to write better code faster. By “better” I mean maintainable code with fewer errors than was possible in C++98. C++11 allows you to write less code for a given problem and have it run faster. By “faster” I mean getting real-world code to run as fast as or faster than hand-tuned C, as fast as or faster than code written in any modern language I …

c_11_user-defined_literals_and_literal_types

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: C++11 User-defined Literals and Literal Types Proposer: peter_sommerlad Type: Tutorial Duration: 45 minutes Description: C++11 introduces user-defined literals (UDL) that allow a programmer to mark numeric or string literals with a dimension suffix, e.g., 15_s to denote 15 seconds. For non-standard UDLs all suffix names must start with an underscore. The talk will show, how to define such UDLs through operator

c_14_early_thoughts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: C++14 Early thoughts Proposer: bjarne_stroustrup Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: I focus on small changes with a chance to make it into C++14, such as braces for copy initialization, return type deduction in functions (just as in lambdas), generic (polymorphic) lambdas, user-defined literals in the standard library, dynamic arrays, generalized constexpr functions, and

c_for_very_small_embedded_systems

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: C++ for Very Small Embedded Systems Proposer: detlef_vollmann Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Many embedded systems today have more computing power and memory available than a typical workstation 10 years ago. On such systems, C++ is the main programming language.

c_in_the_21st_century._extensible_languages_with_mps

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: C in the 21st century. Extensible languages with MPS Proposer: bernhard_merkle Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: Many new programming languages are emerging theses days (e.g. ), however C is still the most used language and serves as the root for most of the “new” languages. Especially when it comes to the bare metal and real embedded development, there is nothing like C.

c_pub_quiz

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: C++ pub quiz Proposer: olve_maudal Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Join us for a pub quiz on C++! You will be working in groups where I present interesting code snippets in C++ and you will discuss, reason about and sometimes need to guess what the code snippet will print out. There will be many educational snippets where we elaborate on the basics of C++, but some of the snippets will be really hard with surprising answers and where we expl…

c_unit_testing_with_the_fake_function_framework

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: C Unit Testing with the Fake Function Framework Proposer: mike_long Type: Tutorial/Live coding Duration: 45 minutes Description: Unit testing C code is possible, but compared to other languages there are very few tools and frameworks available to help. The Fake Function Framework was born out of the repetitive and time-consuming task of creating fake functions to mock out the runtime dependencies of code under test.

c-sharp_is_a_doddle

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: C# is a doddle Proposer: steve love Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: C# is a simple language that has none of the flaws that continually bite at other - particularly C++ - programmers. With automatic memory management, a system of generics that can be understood by mere mortals, a unified type system with no holes in it, and no complicated name lookup schemes, C# is easy. Right?

catch_-_a_natural_fit_for_automated_testing_in_c_c_and_objective-c

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: CATCH - A natural fit for automated testing in C, C++ and Objective-C Proposer: phil_nash Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Writing test code should be as easy as writing any other code. C++, especially, has been notorious for being a second class citizen when it comes to test frameworks. There are plenty of them but they tend to be fiddly to set-up and ceremonious to use. Many of them attempt to follow the xUnit template without respect for th…

charles_bailey

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Charles is a C++ software developer at Bloomberg LP, working in commodity derivatives. His career in software has included roles in such diverse areas as web technology, business intelligence, data warehousing, defence and radar. He is a strong believer in the benefits of good design and clean implementation.

charles_tolman

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Having started in electronics back in the mid 70s I moved into software shortly after getting an Electronic Engineering degree at Southampton. I have moved on from soldering chips onto computer boards to programming them through microcode, assembler, Pascal, Eiffel and thence to C++. I am now one of the [ir]responsible architects for a too large media editing system and having seen many silver bullets come and go, am interested in programmer development as much as i…

chris_oldwood

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Chris started out as a bedroom coder in the 80's writing assembler on 8-bit micros; these days it’s C++ and C# on Windows in big plush corporate offices. His career has covered both shrink wrapped applications and in-house systems with the past 7 years focusing on grid-based distributed systems in the Finance industry. When not attached to a keyboard and screen he has a wife and four children to entertain, dips his toe in the local swimming pool and provides the com…

chris_simons

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Dr Chris Simons is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Chris is very interested in how people design, test and code software and is currently researching into various ways that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help. Chris is convinced that elegance has a crucial role to play in software design and development, and is currently researching into interactive, evolutionary systems that …

clang_considered_helpful

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Clang Considered Helpful Proposer: martin_waplington Proposer: donal_mulvany Type: Case Study Duration: 90 minutes Description: In this talk we will show how to use clang to perform automated refactoring of a code base. We will take specific examples of some anti-patterns (e.g. Singleton, Double Checked Lock) from a well known open source code base and show how to change the code and then (if necessary) all call sites. We will conclude by showing how to …

clanging_effectively_with_legacy_code

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Clanging Effectively With Legacy Code Proposer: martin_waplington Proposer: donal_mulvany Type: Case Study Duration: 90 minutes Description: In this talk we will show how to use clang to automate the dependency breaking refactorings detailed by Michael Feathers in Chapter 25 of his excellent book Working Effectively With Legacy Code.

claudius_link

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: During nearly 20 years working in the software business, Claudius Link held in many different roles, from administrator, supporter, tester, to developer and architect. Developing software for scientific simulations, laboratory systems, system control, and embedded medical devices. Currently he works at IBM leading a team developing content security software. His interests are Open Source, and applying agile practices and software craftsmanship to improve legacy code…

cleaning_code_-_tools_and_techniques_for_legacy_restoration_projects

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Cleaning Code - Tools and Techniques for legacy restoration projects Proposer: mike_long Type: Case Study Duration: 90 minutes Description: “Too big to fail” is not often a term associated with software, but many companies rely on large software systems that are business critical. Over time, the pressure of deadlines and other forces can reduce the quality of these systems to the point where it impacts business. When systems were small it was easier to …

code_as_a_crime_scene

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Code as a crime scene Proposer: adam_petersen Type: Tutorial Duration: 45 minutes Description: Human intuition is unequaled when it comes to assessing the quality of a design. Intuition, however, is not without problems. It's prone to social and cognitive biases that are hard to avoid. Human expertise also suffers from a lack of scalability. As such, intuition rarely scales to encompass large software systems and we need a way to guide our expertise.

coding_dojo_challenge-refactoring

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Coding Dojo Challenge-Refactoring Proposer: emily_bache Type: Dojo Duration: 90 minutes Description: In this hands-on session we will be looking at a rather smelly piece of code which helpfully has a fairly comprehensive suite of automated tests. Refactoring is one of the key skills of Test-Driven Development, and this is your chance to really practice it. The idea is not to rewrite the code from scratch, but rather, by taking small refactoring steps, gradua…

coding_dojo_challenge-solid_design_principles

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Coding Dojo Challenge-SOLID design principles Proposer: emily_bache Type: Dojo Duration: 90 minutes Description: In this hands-on session we will be looking at a couple of pieces of code which are slightly awkward to write tests for, because they violate SOLID design principles. Before we start I'll remind you of the theory of these principles (Single Responsibility, Open-Closed, Liskov Substitution, Dependency Inversion, Interface Segregation), then it's up…

concepts_lite-constraining_templates_with_predicates

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Concepts Lite-Constraining Templates with Predicates Proposer: andrew_sutton Type: Tutorial Duration: 45 minutes Description: In this talk I introduce a new language feature being proposed for C++14: template constraints (a.k.a., concepts lite). A constraint is a predicate that determines whether or not a template argument can be used with a template. Using constraints, we can improve the declaration of templates by directly stating their requirements, and w…

crossing_the_chasm_from_web_to_windows_8_development

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Crossing the chasm from web to Windows 8 development Proposer: sander_hoogendoorn Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: With the introduction of the new Windows 8 / Windows Store platform Microsoft is delivering a whole new software development paradigm. Building applications for this platform is totally different from ASP.NET web development, and even differs from building WPF and Silverlight applications. Or isn’t it?

culture_hacking

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Culture Hacking Proposer: dadi_ingolfsson Type: Workshop Duration: 45 minutes Description: Culture hacking is the systematic development of culture in the workplace. In other words, a deliberate, continuous effort to develop a group's set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that both describe and shape the group. Culture hacking originates with software people and is faithful to the particular ethos of software hackers. It's about modifying cul…

dadi_ingolfsson

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Dadi is a knowledge sponge from Reykjavik, Iceland who's been working as an Agile Coach for the last five years. Before that he was a programmer for seven years where good design, sustainable development and technical excellence were his main obsessions. Today, he is one of the founders and owners of Sprettur (

dan_haywood

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio:Dan Haywood is a freelance consultant, writer, trainer, mentor, specializing in domain-driven design, agile development and enterprise architecture on Java and .NET. With 20+ years' experience building enterprise systems, he's best known as an advocate of the naked objects pattern, and has an ongoing involvement as technical advisor for the Irish Government's strategic naked objects system. Dan instigated the move for the original Naked Objects Framework to become a …

dataflow_is_the_architecture_you_need

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Dataflow is the architecture you need Proposer: russel_winder Type: Presentation (with interaction) Duration: 90 minutes Description: Shared-memory multi-threading is all very well just as long as you don't do it for applications programming. Yet we need concurrency and parallelism in our applications, and threads are the current principal tool to provide this.

death_by_dogma_versus_assembling_agile

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Death by dogma versus assembling agile Proposer: sander_hoogendoorn Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: Almost all organizations, large and small, are turning towards agile to escape failing traditional software development projects. Due to this strong increase in popularity of agile approaches and techniques, many newcomers will enter the field of agile coaching. Many of them without the very necessary real-life experience but proudly wavin…

design_is_a_joke

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Design’s a Joke Proposer: chris_simons Type: Interactive Workshop Duration: 90 minutes Description: Christmas Cracker jokes are corny but fun. But I heard a different take on Christmas Cracker jokes on a local radio station phone-in last year. Instead of asking the Christmas Cracker question, the contestant is given the punch-line, and they have to guess the build-up question. It’s great fun, not least because, of course, there are many possible build-up …

designs_for_human_minds

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Design for Human Minds Proposer: adam_petersen Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Human intuition is unequaled when it comes to assessing the quality of a design. Intuition, however, is not without problems. It's prone to social and cognitive biases that are hard to avoid. Human expertise also suffers from a lack of scalability. As such, intuition rarely scales to encompass large software systems and we need a way to guide our expertise.

detlef_vollman

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Detlef Vollmann has a background of more than 30 years in software engineering, about 25 years in object technology. He is an active member of the C++ standardization committee (generally assigned to the concurrency sub-working group) and one of the (many) authors of the C++ performance report. He designs and implements programs with and without concurrency since 1980. He's currently independent, consulting and teaching courses on embedded systems, concurrency and…

detlef_vollmann

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

diagnoses_for_your_project

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Diagnoses for your Project Proposer: klaus_marquardt Proposer: claudius_link Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: When you are knew to a project, your senses are wide open and you quickly spot how this project ticks: same but different. People do other things, or similar things differently. They sit, talk, interact, and have lunch differently.

didier_verna

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Dr. Didier Verna has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is currently working as an assistant professor for EPITA, a private Computer Science university located in Paris. He gives lectures on Operating Systems, Computer Graphics, Functional Programming and Typesetting. His main research topic is on the use of Lisp, a multi-paradigm dynamic language, to reconcile genericity and performance.

dietmar_kuehl

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Dietmar Kuehl is a senior software developer at Bloomberg L.P. working on energy-related functionality and the core infrastructure. He frequently gives in-house training for C++ related topics. In the past, he has done mainly consulting for software projects in the banking area. He is a regular attendee of the ANSI/ISO C++ standards committee and a moderator of the newsgroup comp.lang.c++.moderated

dirk_haun

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Dirk Haun has been developing software in C and C++ for smart card POS terminals, PDAs and smartphones, service level management tools, and systems for document processing and conversion. He has since moved on to the fields of software QA and build management. In his spare time, he is maintaining an open source project. When he's not dabbling in code, he is helping others improve their presentation skills.

donal_mulvany

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Donal and Martin are both contract programmers working in the finance sector. They have 40 years experience of some of the worst code imaginable. They see clang as an opportunity to automate their way out of the misery they witness every day in large C++ code bases.

dror_helper

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio:Dror Helper is an experienced software developer, PostSharp MVP and technical team lead who has written and designed software in various fields including video streaming, eCommerce, performance optimization and unit testing tools. He is passionate about programming languages and software development best practices, and has been a guest presenter at several user groups, ALT.NET events and conferences.

dynamic_c

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Dynamic C++ Proposer: aleksandar_fabijanic Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Data from external sources comes in diverse types and brings along the need for datatype conversion. How can a C++ programmer accurately and efficiently transfer data from relational or XML database to JSON or

eben_upton

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Eben is the founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, SoC Architect at Broadcom During his third year at Cambridge University, Eben co-founded Ideaworks3D specialising in mobile games and technology, and worked on Java mobile games to help fund his Computer Science PhD.

ed_sykes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: I'm Ed Sykes and I'm a practitioner at 1e. I'm interested in how software technologies can help people create better systems. I am trying to find and bring the best ideas to the attention of the people that I create systems with. I occasionally give talks and sometimes write a blog with these ideas. Catch me in the following places: edsykes.blogspot.co.uk, @edyskes

effective_gof_patterns_with_c_11_and_boost

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Effective GoF Patterns with C++11 and Boost Proposer: tobias_darm Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: “With C++11 we broke all the guidelines, we broke all the idioms, we broke all the books” - Herb Sutter. Even the GoF-book is broken now too. Let us see how some of these patterns can be implemented with C++11 more effectively. And maybe you will be surprised with what happens to some of these patterns. We will have a look at some Boost librarie…

embedded_development_what_s_changed_in_30_years

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Embedded Development, What's Changed in 30 years? Proposer: james_grenning Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: In my travels training and coaching embedded engineers, it seems not much has changed during my career of 30 plus years. Engineers debug with printf, equate single stepping with unit testing, run their code only in their target platform, and are obsessed with micro optimizations. Things have changed. C is much the same as it was all th…

emily_bache

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Emily Bache is an independent consultant specializing in automated testing and agile methods. With over 15 years of experience working as a software developer in organizations as diverse as multinational corporation to small startup, she has learnt to value the technical practices that underpin truly agile teams. Emily is the author of

ephemeral_unit_tests_using_clang

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Ephemeral Unit Tests Using Clang Proposer: martin_waplington Proposer: donal_mulvany Type: Case Study Duration: 90 minutes Description: Ever had to work on a legacy code base? In this talk we will show how to use clang to generate unit tests on the fly for C++. These unit tests can be used in the same way that any other unit test is but they do not have to be stored: they are targeted at the refactoring change you are making right now. Once refactoring i…

ewan_milne

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Ewan Milne has been involved in software development for over twenty years, and has been lucky in being a member of ACCU for most of them. He is a former Chair of both ACCU and the conference. He currently works at IPL in Bath, where he has been involved in any number of roles with many customers, often in the public sector. He helps run Agile development efforts and advises on best practices.

exception-safe_coding_in_c

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Exception-Safe Coding in C++ Proposer: jon_kalb Type: Tutorial Duration: 180 minutes Description: Are you 100% confident that your code is exception-safe? Safe usage of exceptions is a non-trivial problem that the industry has struggled with for the better part of two decades. If you have fear, uncertainty, or doubt about exception safety or just want to see the best practices for using exceptions in C++, this session is for you. We’ll start with “What is…

exceptional_handling

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Exceptional Handling Proposer: klaus_marquardt Proposer: claudius_link Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Error handling easily attributes to the larger part of a project's software. And it is rarely better specified as in “use exceptions only in exceptional circumstances

extreme_startup

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Extreme Startup Proposer: robert_chatley Type: Workshop Duration: 90 minutes Description: In this hands-on workshop we aim to simulate product teams building software and delivering it into a market. Attendees form teams and compete to build the best product. Through the session you can continue to refine and upgrade your software, releasing new versions and testing their performance in the market. Once your software is live it will begin to accrue points, as…

faking_stubbing_and_mocking_in_c

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Faking, Stubbing and Mocking in C Proposer: james_grenning Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: C is rather limited in the options you have for faking, stubbing and mocking, or is it? In this tutorial we'll see how to use the linker, function pointers and the preprocessor to substitute fakes for troublesome dependencies. We'll look at some of the patterns helpful for customizing fakes. To get the feel for it, we'll write some code and try the id…

fast_enough_vms_in_fast_enough_time

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Fast Enough VMs in Fast Enough Time Proposer: laurence_tratt Type: Tutorial/Experience Report Duration: 90 minutes Description: Programming language designers face an unpleasant dilemma when it comes to implementing their languages: too little implementation, and it will be laughed at as too slow; too much, and it will divert energy away from design. Lacking the manpower to make a plausibly fast implementation, many interesting language design ideas …

fear_and_loathing_on_the_agile_trail

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Fear and loathing on the agile trail Proposer: seb_rose Type: Workshop/Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Many people may be familiar with the 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' book (Hunter S. Thompson) and film (Johnny Depp/Terry Gilliam). Less well-known is a collection of his articles that cover the collapse of the Democratic party during the 1972 US presidential campaign, 'Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail'. This session, without recourse to …

fork_--_exploring_a_separate-process_async

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: fork() -- exploring a separate-process async() Proposer: detlef_vollmann Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Parallelism on a multi-core system is efficient only if as few data as possible is shared. The POSIX fork() interface provides a very interesting way to achieve non-shared data.

frances_buontempo

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Frances has a BA in Maths + Philosophy, an MSc in Pure Maths and a PhD technically in Chemical Engineering, but mainly programming and learning about AI and data mining. She has been a programmer for over 12 years professionally, and learnt to program by reading the manual for her Dad’s BBC model B machine. She is currently ACCU's Overload editor, is married to ACCU's CVu editor, has recently taken up weighing technical books and decided they are usually too heavy.…

francesco_cesarini

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Francesco Cesarini is the founder and Technical Director of Erlang Solutions. He has used Erlang on a daily basis for almost 15 years, starting as an intern at Ericsson’s computer science laboratory, the birthplace of Erlang. He moved on to Ericsson’s Erlang training and consulting arm working on the first release of OTP, applying it to turnkey solutions and flagship telecom applications. In 1999, soon after Erlang was released as open source, he founded Erlan…

frank_birbacher

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Frank Birbacher completed his studies in computer science at RWTH Aachen University in Germany and works as a software engineer at INFORM GmbH in Aachen. Having started programming in Basic and Assembler, he had his first experience in C++ in 1998. Most of his knowledge of C++ stems from Usenet where he has been an active member in the group comp.lang.c++.moderated. He is a listed Boost.Spirit developer and occasionally contributes to Boost in general. His main inte…

from_plans_to_capabilities

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: From plans to capabilities Proposer: niklas_bjornerstedt Type: Presentation Duration: 45 minutes Description: Agile can be seen as a shift from planning towards a more capability based way of solving problems. Different agile approaches balance planning and capability in different ways. Many agile adoptions fail because of a conflict between a planning mentality in the organization and the more capability based mindset in agile. The relationship between agi…

functional_programming_for_the_dysfunctional_programmer

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Functional Programming for the Dysfunctional Programmer Proposer: matthew_gilliard Proposer: thom_leggett Type: Preconference tutorial Duration: 360 minutes Description: Functional Programming is undergoing a surge in popularity with new and exciting languages, blog posts and books appearing every week. FP techniques are especially powerful when dealing with modern multi-core processors and distributed systems, even though the theories on which it is based …

gavin_heavyside

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Gavin is Director of Software Engineering at MyDrive Solutions, which provides telematics data services to the insurance industry. MyDrive collects GPS data from vehicle telematics devices and smartphone apps, analyses it, and provides behavioural analysis services to insurers, using repeatable, automated infrastructure and deployment. For over 12 years Gavin has developed software for platforms including mobile phones, desktop PCs, servers and telephone exchanges. …

generic_programming_in_c_a_modest_example

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Generic Programming in C++: A modest example Proposer: marshall_clow Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: In this session, I will take a request from the boost mailing list: “Why doesn’t boost have hex/unhex functions, I think they would be useful

getting_legacy_c_c_under_test

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Getting Legacy C/C++ under Test Proposer: peter_sommerlad Proposer: michael_rueegg Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: Getting Legacy C/C++ under Test: “Introduce Seams” Refactorings and Mockator Mock Object Support Library C++ has a rich set of libraries which support the creation of fake and mock objects (i. e., test doubles). The overwhelming part of them are based on subtype polymorphism by inheriting the test doubles from a common ba…

gil_zilberfeld

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Gil Zilberfeld has been in software since childhood, starting out with Logo turtles. With twenty years of developing commercial software, he has vast experience in software methodology and practices. Gil is the product manager at Typemock, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He promotes unit testing and other design practices, down–to–earth agile methods, and some incredibly cool tools. Gil speaks in internation…

giovanni_asproni

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Giovanni is a freelance contractor and consultant living in the UK. Despite the fact that he often gets hired as an architect, team leader, trainer, and mentor, he is a programmer at heart, with a taste for simple code. He is a regular conference speaker, and a past member of the committee of the London XPDay conference and a past conference chair of the ACCU conference. Giovanni is a member of the ACCU, the AgileAlliance, the ACM, and the IEEE Computer Society.

git_-_everyday_recipes_for_you_and_your_team

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Git - Everyday recipes for you and your team Proposer: charles_bailey Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: Git is a very powerful and flexible distributed version control tool. Because it is so flexible, it provides very little implicit guidance on how best to benefit from its power. This talk aims to show you how to look at problems from the Git perspective and how to use and develop optimal recipes for common situations which you encounter …

git_-_why_should_i_care_about_the_index

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Git - Why should I care about the index? Proposer: charles_bailey Type: Presentation Duration:90 minutes Description: One of the unique features of Git is its “index” but it is often poorly understood and frequently cited as confusing, especially for newcomers to Git.

greg_law

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Greg is a co-founder and the Chief Executive of Undo Software. He has a broad experience straddling the technical and business worlds, and finds it particularly rewarding to turn innovative software technology into real, commercially-successful products. Before co-founding Undo, he was the OpenOnload product manager for Solarflare and Chief Software Architect at NexWave. His first job was as a software engineer at the pioneering British computer firm, Acorn. Greg's…

groovy_is_a_high_performance_language

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Groovy is a high performance language Proposer: russel_winder Type: Presentation (with interaction) Duration: 90 minutes Description: It is often thought that using a statically typed languages compiled to native code is the only route to fast code, even if at expense of increased verbosity and/or complexity of source code. Languages using a virtual machine are still disparagingly lumped with interpreted languages and labelled

groovy_programming

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Groovy Programming Proposer: russel_winder Type: Workshop Duration: all day Description: Introducing Groovy and how to use it. Groovy is a dynamically type language running on the JVM, designed to be symbiotic with Java. Groovy has traction within the community in many directions.

growing_c_software_guided_by_tests

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Growing C++ Software Guided by Tests Proposer: alan_griffiths Type: Experience Report Duration: 90 minutes Description: In 2010 Alan reviewed “Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests” (by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce) for C Vu. He said

growing_cross-functional_teams_in_the_public_sector

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Growing cross-functional Teams in the Public Sector Proposer: michael_leber Type: Cast Study Duration: 90 minutes Description: Looking at collaboration in IT teams of public organizations we typically face two major obstacles: traditional concepts of departments, teams and individual responsibilities as well as a rather bureaucratic culture. In addition the fixed budget approach even stimulates the idea of following plans over responding to change in sep…

growing_software_from_examples

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Growing software from examples Proposer: seb_rose Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: There are a wealth of methods that use specifications, examples and tests to drive out the design and implementation of software systems: TDD, ATDD, BDD, SbE and more. Beyond a common feeling that the use of the T-word (test) is unfortunate (because it serves to distort the intent and distract the focus of the practitioner) there is little agreement. A further i…

gumption_traps_reloaded

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Gumption traps Reloaded Proposer: rachel_davies Proposer: ivan_moore Type: Workshop Duration: 90 minutes Description: In the book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values” the author, Robert Pirsig, talks about “gumption traps

hands_on_continuous_deployment

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Hands on continuous deployment Proposer: robert_chatley Type: Preconference Workshop Duration: All day Description: A hands-on tutorial giving the opportunity to experience rapid automated release and continuous deployment techniques Release and deployment is often still a stressful part of software delivery. We still often see teams producing large releases and problems occurring at release time. Following the principle of

hasan_ceylan

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Hasan Ceylan is a Java and Linux developer, architect and open source enthusiast with total of 25+ years of development experience. During his early career, he worked for Alarko Tourism Group. Later joined Biletix AŞ (The leading Turkish on-line ticketing company acquired by TicketMaster the global ticketing company operating in 15+ countries) at its start-up phase. Ceylan quickly became the IT Manager and CTO of Biletix and worked for Biletix until 2008. Leaving…

health_and_hygiene_in_the_modern_code_base

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Health and Hygiene in the Modern Code Base Proposer: michael_feathers Type: Preconference tutorial Duration: 360 minutes Description: We all know what good code looks like and we know what our current code looks like. But, do we know what normal is? What code is most likely to be and how it comes to be that way. In this workshop, Michael Feathers will lead you through a series of code readings, and convey measures of code quality across a number of domain…

how_to_narrow_down_what_to_test

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: How to Narrow Down What to Test Proposer: zsolt_fabok Type: Tutorial Duration: 45 minutes Description: Nowadays testing, especially writing automatic test cases, costs a lot. This looks like an extra expense in short time, but saves a lot of trouble in the long run. However, not every organisation can afford to spend expensive coding time on testing that considered as no real value to the customer.

how_to_program_your_way_out_of_a_paper_bag

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: How to program your way out of a paper bag Proposer: frances_buontempo Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Frequently programmers complain that people they interview, or colleagues, or blog writers clearly couldn't program their way out of a paper bag. This fills me with fear, since I have never tried and therefore am not sure I can program my way out of a paper bag. Anecdotal evidence suggests if you can code FizzBuzz that's good enough. I will …

hubert_matthews

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Hubert is an independent software consultant, architect and trainer based in Oxford. His work ranges from teaching and advising on software development and agile methods in far-off places through to designing enterprise systems and government web sites. Hubert has been an ACCU member for many years and has presented regularly at its conferences as well as being a former chairman. In his abundant free time he indulges in salsa, clay-pigeon shooting, organising row…

hybrid_programming

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Hybrid programming Proposer: aleksandra_mierzejewska Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: The presentation will discuss architectural question of using multiple languages in a project. We often need flexibility in parts of a project and maximum performance in other parts. Various solutions of that problem will be discussed. In particular use of interpreted language for the bits that need flexibility and compiled one for the performance sensitive …

implementing_smart_use_cases_on_the_windows_8_platform

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Implementing smart use cases on the Windows 8 platform Proposer: sander_hoogendoorn Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: Use cases have been around for many years describing the requirements of software development projects. From a developer’s point of view, use cases are often seen as too abstract and too complex to develop code from. Until now, that is.

improving_application_efficiency_on_arm_-_what_app_developers_need_to_know_about_hardware_systems

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Improving Application Efficiency on ARM - what App developers need to know about hardware systems Proposer: william_wang Type: Tutorial Duration: 45 minutes Description: As more and more developers write applications on mobile platforms, and most mobile hardware platforms are based on ARM CPUs. This workshop aims to address the performance issues for app developers from bottom-up, with the focus on the ARM CPU memory subsystems, from TLB, L1 and L2 caches to …

in_credible_leadership_for_agile_engineering_teams

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: (In)Credible Leadership for Agile Engineering Teams Proposer: michael_leber Proposer: michael_laussegger Type: Workshop Duration: 90 minutes Description: Simply following agile methods is not enough for reaching the benefits of better products, a collaborative environment with customers and more satisfied teams. We are told, that Agile needs leadership. But what kind of leadership does an engineer, does the engineering team expect and actually need? Wh…

incremental_software_delivery

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Incremental Software Devlivery Proposer: ed_sykes Type: Workshop Duration: 90 minutes Description: Breaking work down incrementally is difficult and many struggle with it. This workshop is designed to show how to think incrementally and how this can benefit supplier and customer.

inspiring_future_generations_with_open_hardware_-_the_raspberry_pi

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Inspiring future generations with open hardware - the Raspberry Pi Proposer: eben_upton Type: Keynote Duration: 60 minutes Description: In a world full of expensive, “closed” consumer devices emerges the Raspberry Pi, a low-cost credit-card sized computer that can be plugged into a TV and a keyboard.

is_extreme_programmers_still_alive_and_kicking

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Is eXtreme Programming still alive and kicking? Proposer: rachel_davies Type: Case Study Duration: 45 minutes Description: Back in 2000, I worked for 3 years as a Java developer at Connextra, one of the first companies trying eXtreme Programming in UK. If you've ever been asked to write stories using the

ivan_moore

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Ivan Moore has been programming for over 30 years and yet he still makes mistakes. That's why he's interested in test driven development, refactoring, continuous integration, and drinking tea. He has a PhD in automated refactoring (1996), and has presented at numerous international conferences, such as OOPSLA, XP, ACCU, TOOLS and ECOOP. He works for Team Optimization as a coach, developer and tea boy.

james_grenning

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: James Grenning trains, coaches, and consults worldwide. He has more than thirty years of software development experience, both technical and managerial. James’ mission is to bring improved technical and management practices to embedded development teams. He is one of the authors of CppUTest, a unit test harness for embedded C and C++. His book,

java_8_a_new_beginning

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Java 8 a new beginning Proposer: russel_winder Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: Java 8 will introduce lambda expressions to Java, and include a whole new library – a bigger change to Java than Java 5. The change is a simple evolution, but is also a complete revolution of Java.

java_a_new_beginning

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Java a new beginning Proposer: russell_winder Type: Workshop/Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description:

java_ee_handbook_7

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Java EE Handbook 7 Proposer: peter_pilgrim Type: Technical Session Duration: 90 minutes Description: This will be 75 minutes presentation on the Java EE 7 platform forthcoming release on April 2013. This talk will show the new features of the platform in supporting

johan_herland

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Johan Herland is a software developer at Cisco in Oslo, Norway, developing the next generation of video conferencing solutions. Before joining Cisco in 2011, he worked for 7 years at Opera Software, making web browsers for a variety of desktop and embedded platforms.

john_lakos

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: John Lakos, author of Large Scale C++ Software Design, serves at Bloomberg LP in New York City as a senior architect and mentor for C++ Software Development world-wide. He is also an active voting member of the C++ Standards Committee, Library Working Group. Previously, Dr. Lakos directed the design and development of infrastructure libraries for proprietary analytic financial applications at Bear Stearns. For 12 years prior, Dr. Lakos developed large frameworks an…

jon_kalb

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Jon has been programming in C++ for twenty years. He is currently doing this for Amazon’s A9.com. During the last two decades he has written C++ for Amazon, Apple, Dow Chemical, Intuit, Lotus, Microsoft, Netscape, Sun, Yahoo! and a number of companies that you've never heard of. He taught C++ at the Golden Gate University graduate school for two years. His talk on Exception-Safe Coding won Best Tutorial at C++ Now! in 2012. Jon is co-chair of C++ Now (aka BoostCon) …

jonathan_wakely

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Jonathan Wakely is a programmer in the financial sector, working mostly with C++ and UNIX. He is one of the maintainers of GCC's implementation of the C++ standard library and participates in the panel which represents the UK on the C++ standards committee.

julian_smith

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Julian is a co-founder and CTO of Undo Software. He holds a physics degree from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Edinburgh, and has spent the subsequent years writing software professionally, with a focus on development tools and system-level programming. Julian is a keen cyclist and an accomplished violin, viola and baroque violin player and plays in various chamber music groups, orchestras and a local folk/rock group.

just_agile-there_is_more-establishing_the_creative_team_space

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: : Just Agile-There is more-Establishing the Creative Team Space Proposer: michael_leber Proposer: michael_laussegger Type: Workshop Duration: 90 minutes Description: While many teams have adopted agile approaches to learn faster and boost performance, still few seem having managed to create radically better products than before. However, some have succeeded. We have observed that some teams managed to establish something we now refer to as the „Creative …

kevlin_henney

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Kevlin is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His development interests are in patterns, programming, practice and process. He has been a columnist for various magazines and web sites and is co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series. He is also editor of the

key_habits_of_highly_successful_agile_organizations

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Key Habits of Highly Successful Agile Organizations Proposer: selena_delesie Type: Workshop Duration: 90 minutes Description: Transitioning and succeeding with Agile can be challenging. You have probably been told what you're supposed to do and the process everyone will follow. But that's easier said then done, isn't it? You're left wondering how people are supposed to interact and how the organizational culture is going to change for the better. Having been …

klaus_marquardt

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Klaus's software development experience covers life-support systems, international projects, frameworks and product lines, and agility in regulated environments. He has documented a series of diagnoses and therapies on software systems that stem from his interest in the mutual influences of technology, humans, processes, and organization — these can be found at

laurence_tratt

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Laurence Tratt is a Lecturer at King's College London and software consultant. His main field of research is in programming languages, though he has also worked on mapping software (Fetegeo), software modelling, and security. He tries to keep himself grounded in the

lean_principles_for_leading_organizational_change

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Lean Principles For Leading Organizational Change Proposer: matt_barcomb Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Conversations about Lean often turn immediately to eliminating waste. While certainly important, this tends to overshadow other principles and doesn't provide much insight into organizational change. This session focuses on three of the Lean principles that can help facilitate organizational culture change. First is

learning_ruby_through_tdd_and_katas

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Learning ruby through tdd and katas Proposer: roy_osherove Type: Tutorial Duration: 45 minutes Description: TDD Katas are not just a powerful way to learn tdd , but they are also a powerful tool to learn new languages. Once you know how to perform a kata (such as String Calaculator) in one language, trying to translate it to a different language provides a very easy platform to incrementally learn a new language's features. In this session, we will look at th…

lightning_talks

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Lightning talks Proposer: ewan_milne Type: Presentation Duration: 60 minutes Description: Each session of lightning talks is a sequence of five minute talks given by different speakers on a variety of topics. There are no restrictions on the subject matter of the talks, the only limit is the maximum time length. The talks are brief, interesting, fun, and there's always another one coming along in a few minutes.

live_from_the_trenches._building_.net_web_applications_on_top_of_cobol

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Live from the trenches. Building .NET web applications on top of COBOL Proposer: sander_hoogendoorn Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: In the Netherlands we are running in intriguing project for a major social security agency building an ASP.NET web application on top of one of the largest COBOL installations in the country. This 25 person (and growing) project includes many different aspects that make life challenging, including combining …

location_location_location

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Location, location, location Proposer: gavin_heavyside Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Geospatial information is everywhere - nearly every smartphone has a GPS chip in it, and your IP address gives clues to your physical location to every web site you visit. Between smartphones and sat-navs, most of us now have devices that are recording our location and using online services that use that location.

logic_programming_and_test_data_generation

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Logic Programming and Test Data Generation Proposer: brian_marick Type: Listecture Duration: 45 minutes Description: Primum: logic programming computes values for variables based on relationships between known facts. In the main, introductions to it are either based on logic puzzles (cannibals and boats!) with an at best unclear relationship to the problems we write programs to solve, or on laboriously reimplementing things (arithmetic!) that we can already …

look_ma_update_db_to_html5_using_c_no_hands

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Look ma, “update DB to HTML5 using C++”, no hands! Proposer: aleksandar_fabijanic Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: The session will demonstrate and explain in detail a mechanism for event-driven data pushing from database to the web page using C++ and Javascript.

making_cross-shore_time-zone-spanning_teams_work

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Making cross-shore, time-zone-spanning teams work Proposer: ed_sykes Type: Experience Report Duration: 90 minutes Description: The advice given to teams is to co-locate. Some of us find ourselves in a situation where that is not possible, often due to a board level strategic goal to use off-shoring. When this is your context and it can't change how should you organise yourselves?

managing_from_the_mountaintop

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Managing from the Mountaintop Proposer: astrid_byro Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: Whether you generally work with remote teams or are managing the risk of things like a snowmageddon or the London Olympics, this talk is for you. A case study in implementing an agile toolset that increased transparency between the shop floor and TPTB and allowed me to manage my team from the Himalaya.

marc_evers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Marc works as an independent coach, trainer and consultant in the field of (agile) software development and software processes. Marc develops true learning organizations that focus on continuous reflection and improvement: apply, inspect, adapt. Marc also organizes workshops and conferences on agile and lean software development, extreme programming, systems thinking, theory of constraints, and effective communication. Marc is co-founder of the Agile Open and XP Day…

mark_craddock

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio:Mark has worked on many Cloud projects and programmes, including the Cloud First Strategy for the Houses of Parliament. Mark now works for the Cabinet Office and is responsible for the G-Cloud CloudStore (uk.gov/cloudstore) and Propagation streams of the Government ICT Strategy.

marshall_clow

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Speaker biography: Marshall has been programming in C++ for almost 20 years. He contributes to Boost, where he is the maintainer of several libraries, and LLVM. He is a Principal Engineer at Qualcomm in San Diego. Email:marshall@idio.com

martin_waplington

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Martin and Donal are both contract programmers working in the finance sector. They have 40 years experience of some of the worst code imaginable. They see clang as an opportunity to automate their way out of the misery they witness every day in large C++ code bases.

mathhew_gilliard

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: I've been a Java programmer for a long time, since university where they taught us OO (clearly the best kind of programming) and FP (weird, academic and impractical). But I enjoyed playing with FP as a hobby where I could learn about all these things with weird names and fancy logos. Imagine my surprise when I found out that the functional style could actually be useful in my day job, too! Since we started BrisFunctional I've found FP to be just as much fun as I …

matt_barcomb

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Matt Barcomb (@mattbarcomb) is passionate about building collaborative, cross-functional teams; enjoys being out-of-doors; loves punning; and thrives on guiding organizations towards sustainable, adaptive and systemic improvement. Matt started programming as a wee lad and eventually wound up getting paid for it. It took him nearly 10 years before he realized that the

matt_turner

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Matt's software engineering experience spans embedded C to C# to JavaScript. Currently an Agile team leader, Matt is interested in all the usual Agile and Lean stuff, but still can't help looking at things in a technological way. He hasn't written a book or anything, but has given a few talks at ACCU and other conferences, and tries to make interesting points.

matthew_gilliard

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

measure_and_manage_flow_in_practice

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Measure and Manage Flow in Practice Proposer: zsolt_fabok Type: Session Duration: 45 minutes Description: Measure and Manage Flow is the third of the core principles of Kanban. It means that the members of the organisation are supposed to measure their progress and use the gathered information to improve their way of working. The most famous measurement tool for Kanban is the Cumulative Flow Diagram, but there are other usable approaches out there.

methodology_a_la_carte

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Methodology a la carte Proposer: giovanni_asproni Type: Tutorial/Workshop Duration: 90 minutes Description: In the software world we have been looking for “The Methodology” to solve our software development sorrows for quite a while. We started with Waterfall, then Spiral, Evo, RUP and, more recently with XP, Scrum and Kanban (there are many others, but, their impact, so far, has been more limited). In this session I'll argue about the fact, that an out-of-…

michael_feathers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Michael Feathers is Chief Scientist of Obtiva Corporation. He balances his time between working with, training, and coaching various teams around the world. Michael developed CppUnit, the initial port of JUnit to C++, and FitCpp, a C++ port of the FIT integrated-test framework. Michael is also the author of the book

michael_laussegger

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Michael is the founder of Die Projektur, the European training and consulting hub for agile innovation. Michael has been a creative geek ever since he learned programming from his father at the age of ten. Ten years later, in 1994 he founded his first software company with the aim to revolutionise knowledge management in technology businesses. This was when he learned that knowledge and innovation have got verylittle to do with technology, but quite a lot with cultu…

michael_leber

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Agile Coach, long-standing experience in the IT and strong background on agile methods from practice, consulting and research. As Agile coach and Scrum Master he has been supporting agile teams and organizations during complex project initiatives and for sustainable establishment of agile practices. As an educated systemic coach he supports management with agile transitions. Having worked more than 10 years in and with large industrial organizations as well a…

michael_rueegg

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Michael Rüegg is a scientific assistant at IFS Institute for Software and holds a diploma in computer science of FHO/HSR Rapperswil. He works on refactoring Eclipse plug-ins for C++. Mockator Pro is his master thesis project. Email

michael_ruegg

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

michael_wong

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Michael Wong is the CEO of OpenMP Corporation, a consortium of 22 member companies that hold the de-facto standard for parallel programming specification for C/C++ and FORTRAN. He is the IBM and Canadian Head of delegation to the C++ Standard, and Chair of the WG21 Software Transactional Memory group. He is the co-author of a number of C++11/OpenMP/STM features. He is the past C++ team lead to IBM´s XL C++ compiler, C compiler and has been designing C++ compilers fo…

michel_grootjans

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Michel Grootjans has been programming since the age of 12. He has programmed strange machines like the TI 99-4A, the Atari 2600, Mac128, HP28, Apple II, Siemens PLC's using languages like Basic, Pascal, C, HyperTalk, Assembler, ... along the way.

mike_long

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: I am Mike Long, a software engineer working at Schlumberger. I have worked in the UK and Norway, and now I’m based in Beijing, China. I have worked on drilling geosteering systems, seismic acquisition, positioning, and navigation, and now borehole acquisition platforms. I made the

more_effective_presentations

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: More effective presentations Proposer: dirk_haun Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Presentations have found their way from conferences into everyday life and business. Most presentations, however, are boring, confusing, and just not very effective. In this tutorial, we will look at why your standard bullet-point driven presentation does not work like you think it will and learn about ways to better structure presentations, to customize them fo…

move_noexcept_and_push_back_and_how_it_relates_to_each_other

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Move, noexcept, and push_back() and how they relate to each other Proposer: nico_josuttis Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: One key feature of C++11 is move semantics with rvalue references. However, combined with other features and guarantees of the standard library the consequences of introducing move semantics turn out to be remarkable. In fact, late in the standardization process this features caused the new concept for exception handling …

multicore_parallelism_for_c_with_intel_r_threading_building_blocks

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Multicore parallelism for C++ with Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks Proposer: alexey_kukanov Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks (further referred as TBB) is an open-source C++ library for parallelism, developed and maintained by Intel and influenced, ported, reviewed and widely adopted by community as well as the industry. It is aimed to ease development of applications that exploit thread-level parallelism …

nico_josuttis

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Nicolai Josuttis () is an independent system architect, technical manager, author, and consultant. He designs mid-sized and large software systems for the telecommunication, traffic, finance, and manufacturing industries. He is well known both in the programming community because he not only speaks and writes with authority (being the (co-)author of the world-wide best-sellers

niklas_bjornerstedt

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Niklas was a leading figure in the Scandinavian object oriented and Smalltalk communities in the nineties. He went on to focus on agile development and was among the first people to use XP in Norway. Niklas is a practitioner at heart and is not afraid to spend years with one project. He also has extensive experience from both the customer and supplier side of projects.

olve_maudal

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Olve Maudal works for Cisco Systems where he is involved in developing telepresence and video conferencing products and solutions. He loves to write code, but is just as interested in how software is developed as what it actually does. Olve is also an active member of the vibrant geek community in Oslo where he is involved in JavaPils, Cantara, XP Meetup, Oslo C++ Users Group, Lean Meetup and a few other things.

omer_kilic

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Omer is an Embedded Systems Engineer working on Erlang Embedded, a Knowledge Transfer Partnership project in collaboration with University of Kent which aims to bring the benefits of concurrent systems development using Erlang to the field of embedded systems; through investigation, analysis, software development and evaluation.

open_source_patterns

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Open Source Patterns Proposer: claudius_link Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: Open Source has gained major importance throughout many industries. It provides a significant element in the software value chain by offering features, functionality and quality, as well as enabling a faster time to market while saving costs. The Open Source communities provide knowledge and support. Software development is hardly imaginable without Open Source.…

organizational_influence_hacks

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Organizational influence hacks Proposer: roy_osherove Type: Tutorial Duration: 45 minutes Description: In this session Roy covers six areas of influence that we can use to change the behavior of other people and ourselves. These areas can also help in answering magical questions such as

otp_the_middleware_for_concurrent_distributed_scalable_architectures

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: OTP, the Middleware for Concurrent Distributed Scalable Architectures Proposer: francesco_cesarini Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: While Erlang is a powerful programming language used to build distributed, fault tolerant systems with requirements of high availability, these complex systems require middleware in the form of reusable libraries, release, debugging and maintenance tools together with design principles and patterns used t…

parallelism_in_c_1y

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Parallelism in C++1y Proposer: detlef_vollmann Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Parallelism and multi-threading are two of the main topics for the next versions of C++. Some additional concurrency support might even show up in the small planned revision C++14, and some bigger additions are discussed for C++17.

pattern-oriented_software_architecture

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Proposer: kevlin_henney Type: Preconference tutorial Duration: 360 minutes Description: Patterns offer a successful way of exploring, reasoning about, describing and proposing design ideas. There are many valuable aspects of pattern-based thinking that are overlooked in the common perception of design patterns. The original vision of patterns embodies a notion of incremental, feedback-based design – something that may c…

pete_goodliffe

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Pete Goodliffe is a software developer, columnist, speaker, and author who never stays at the same place in the software food chain; he's worked in numerous languages on diverse projects. He also has extensive experience in teaching and mentoring programmers, and writes the regular

peter_pilgrim

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Peter Pilgrim is a professional software developer and designer. Since 1998, he has worked in the financial services industry, investment banking mainly, developing Information Technology solutions for clients. He is a well-known specialist in Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) technology, focused on the server-side and the implementation of electronic commerce. Peter is Scala and JavaFX enthusiast.

peter_sommerlad

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Prof. Peter Sommerlad is head of IFS Institute for Software at FHO/HSR Rapperswil. Peter is co-author of the books POSA Vol.1 and Security Patterns. His goal is to make software simpler by Decremental Development: Refactoring software down to 10% its size with better architecture, testability and quality and functionality. The original idea behind Mockator Pro was inspired by him.

phil_nash

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Phil has spent much of the last three decades trying to work out how to transform percussive actions on a keyboard into patterns of electrical pulses that seem to make some people happy. Along the way he has discovered that sometimes you need to get other people involved too and generally tries to hang out with those that care about the craft as much as he does. Outside of paid contract work, consulting, training and coaching he has authored open source projects suc…

professional_css_for_developers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Professional CSS for developers Proposer: michel_grootjans Type: Workshop Duration: 90 minutes Description: Creating beautiful designs seems out of reach for us common developers. Its as if a different set of brains is needed to design for the web.

rachel_davies

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Rachel Davies is co-author of Agile Coaching and has worked in software development since 1987 developing systems in C, C++, and Java. She is interested finding ways to help teams work more effectively to achieve their goals and has specialised in coaching teams in agile approaches to software development, such as XP and Kanban. Rachel currently works as a agile coach at Unruly Media in London.

real_architecture-engineering_or_pompous_bullshit

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Real Architecture-Engineering or Pompous Bullshit? Proposer: tom_gilb Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: What should software architecture be? How is it related to major critical software qualities and performance, to costs and constraints? How do we decide exactly what to propose, and how do we estimate and prove it is justified. How can an organization qualify their own architects, and know the difference between the frauds and the expert…

refactoring_to_functional

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Refactoring to Functional Proposer: steve_freeman Type: Workshop Duration: 90 minutes Description: Knowing functional techniques leads to better object oriented code, just as knowing about objects leads to better procedural code. The trick is getting from here to there.

restful_objects_-_a_hypermedia_api_for_domain_object_models

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Restful Objects - a hypermedia API for domain object models Proposer: dan_haywood Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: REST architectures are becoming increasingly more common, both on the internet and within the enterprise. Behind most of these REST APIs is a domain model (some anaemic, some less so); the wiring up of that REST

rob_westgeest

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: After years of experience with Object Oriented Software Development with UML, several development processes and project approaches as developer, trainer and project leader, Rob worked on his first XP project in 2000. And with great success! He supports projects and people in the application of agile practices, principles and values since then. Rob develops himself and others continuously by visiting, organising and hosting workshops at conferences and user group mee…

robert_chately

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Robert is a practising software engineer, and currently works as a principal consultant with Develogical working with clients ranging from startups to global investment banks. Previously he led the engineering team at the startup MetaBroadcast and before that worked at Google in London on their Tv Ads product. He also acted as an agile coach and conducted training in agile development in Google's offices throughout the EMEA region.

robert_chatley

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

robust_software_dotting_the_i_s_and_crossing_the_t_s

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Robust Software - Dotting the I's and Crossing the T's Proposer: chris_oldwood Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: It’s been said that the first 90% of a project consumes 90% of the time, whereas the second 10 % accounts for the other 90% of the time. One reason might be because elevating software from “mostly works” to robust and supportable requires an attention to detail in the parts of a system that are usually mocked out during unit testing…

roger_orr

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: I have over 30 years experience in IT, using a variety of languages and platforms and have experienced working for a number of different companies over the years. In 1989 I became a contract computer programmer and have successfully managed to remain at the technical end of IT ever since; my recent work has mostly been in C++ and Java, on Windows and Linux.

romilly_cocking

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Romilly Cocking spent ten years before his 'retirement' as an agile software developer, coach and trainer. After he'd spent a couple of years of retirement experimenting with robotics, the Raspberry Pi came along. Now Romilly works full-time running Quick2Wire - a lean start-up developing add-ons for the Pi.

roy_osherove

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Roy Osherove is the chief scientist at Bouvet.no and the author of The Art of Unit Testing and Notes to a Software Team Leader . On twitter he is @royosherove and his blog is at Email:roy@osherove.com A framework for growing effective software teams Learning ruby through tdd and katas Organizational Influence Hacks

ruby_and_rails_for_n00bs

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Ruby and Rails for n00bs Proposer: michel_grootjans Type: Workshop Duration: 90 minutes Description: You 've heard all the hype about ruby and you've heard how great rails is, but you've never got far in it. In this workshop, you will gain an understanding that most tutorials skip in favor of generation voodoo magic. We'll be building a small application from scratch in ruby on rails. If the networking gods permit it, we'll have a working online application …

russel_winder

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Ex-theoretical physicist, ex-UNIX system programmer, ex-academic. Now an independent consultant, analyst, author, expert witness and trainer. Also doing startups. Interested in all things parallel and concurrent. And build. Actively involved with Groovy, GPars, GroovyFX, SCons, Java, and Gant. Also Gradle. And Python-CSP.

russell_winder

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

sander_hoogendoorn

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: In his role of principal technology officer and global agile thought leader at Capgemini, Sander Hoogendoorn is involved in the innovation of software development processes, techniques, architectures, patterns, framework and technologies, both at Capgemini and its many international clients.

schalk_cronje

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Schalk Cronjé has over 20 years of experience in the software industry and has spoken on various software delivery techniques in the UK, USA, India and South Africa. He has delivered software as products and services with delivery cycles between 2 weeks and 12 months. He holds two engineering degrees from the University of Pretoria and a MBA in technology management from the Open University. He is a technology libertarian, and was one of the pioneers of localisin…

scrum_and_evolution_-_what_can_we_learn

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Scrum and evolution - what can we learn? Proposer: matt_turner Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Using scrum to develop software, we seek to continually improve our product and also our team. We aim to be as responsive as possible to changes in our environment and our competitors. We think of something, make the change (to our code or our working practices) and let the market evaluate it. We accept or reject the new code as better and repeat …

seb_rose

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Seb Rose is an independent software developer, trainer and coach based in the UK. He specialises in working with teams adopting and refining their agile practices, with a particular focus on delivering software through the use of examples.

selena_delesie

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Selena Delesie is the founder of Delesie Solutions Inc, a consulting services company helping software organizations accomplish their mission. She works with individuals, teams and companies to unearth and enable big success stories. As an inspiring leader and in-demand speaker, trainer, author and coach, she has helped thousands of people more effectively and efficiently deliver high-quality solutions that exceed expectations. Selena's presentations, workshops and …

server_login_considered_harmful_-_introduction_to_devops_practices

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Server login considered harmful - introduction to devops practices Proposer: stephan_eggermont Proposer: willem_van_den_ende Type: Tutorial/Case Study Duration: 90 minutes Description: The DevOps (Development and Operations together) and the cloud sparked a renewed interest in configuration management tools that generate configurations for one or more servers. Stephann the past two years together with Stephan Eggermont I have used both puppet and chef, two …

sfinae_functionality_is_not_arcane_esoterica

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: SFINAE Functionality Is Not Arcane Esoterica Proposer: jonathan_wakely Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: The phrase “Substitution Failure Is Not An Error”, commonly known as SFINAE, refers to part of the template argument deduction rules in C++, but what does it mean and why is it important? This session will explain the rule and why it's needed to make function templates usable. We'll also see how C++11 extended and changed the rule into the …

stephan_eggermont

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Stephan Eggermont is an independent consultant and software developer. Always interested in ways to make software development better and (even) more fun, he likes helping teams in becoming more able to add value to their organizations. After programming for 15 years, he discovered Seaside and Smalltalk and found out that there was a reasonable way to develop web applications after all. He also does Technology Roadmapping to help organizations realize and visualize t…

steve_freeman

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Steve Freeman was a keynote speaker at ACCU 2010. He is an independent consultant specializing in Agile software development. With Nat Pryce he wrote Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests and won the 2006 Agile Alliance Gordon Pask award. He is a founder member of the eXtreme Tuesday Club and was chair of the first London XpDay. These days Steve is interested in writing better code, and in exploring organizational complexity.

steve_love

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Steve Love is a freelance software developer who has never written a compiler, but has written a (very small) operating system, of which he was once very proud. He now works on the periphery of the finance industry, writing C#, C++ and Python code when he can.

surviving_long-running_agile_projects._agile_by_example

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Surviving long-running agile projects. Agile by example Proposer: sander_hoogendoorn Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: When thinking about agile most people either consider small teams executing two to three month projects or are considering industrializing huge projects in an agile way-of-working, including off-shore distributed teams and quality assurance.

taking_scala_into_the_enterprise

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Taking Scala into the Enterprise Proposer: peter_pilgrim Type: Technical Session Duration: 90 minutes Description: This will be 75 minutes presentation (+15 mins Q&A) about Scala aimed at advancing beginners. The talk will concentrate on bringing how best to bring this ever popular object functional language in an enterprise. At the very beginning, there will be some of the basics including case classes, object functions and the collection framework. The tal…

test_driven_development_on_the_raspberry_pi

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Test driven development on the Raspberry Pi Proposer: willem_van_den_ende Proposer: marc_evers Proposer: rob_westgeest Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: This will be bits of presentation mixed with a prepared kata to show how we do it. Doing test-driven development for embedded devices is possible. It has its' own set of constraints, such as:

the_111111_unity_method_for_decomposition_of_projects_in_to_an_agile_value_stream

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: The 111111 Unity Method for Decomposition of Projects in to an Agile Value Stream Proposer: tom_gilb Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: In Agile, incremental and iterative project management methods, there is an ideal of delivering value to stakeholders early and frequently. This works best if you manage to decompose the planned new system into value increments that can be independently delivered. We can then prioritise high value delivery …

the_actor_model_applied_to_the_raspberry_pi_and_the_embedded_domain

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: The Actor Model applied to the Raspberry Pi and the Embedded Domain Proposer: omer_kilic Type: Presentation Duration: 45 minutes Description: The Actor Model has interesting properties that could be used for dealing with complexities posed by modern embedded systems. Using actors as compositional units to describe these systems is a new proposal which stands out and challenges conventional approaches.

the_art_of_reviewing_code

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: The art of reviewing code Proposer: arjan_van_leeuwen Type: Tutorial Duration: 45 minutes Description: Making sure that the code you write is seen by at least one more person before it goes into production is a great way of increasing the quality of your code. One way of doing that is via code reviews, where code is being checked by peers or code owners after it has been written. Code reviews are gaining popularity again in many companies and communities.

the_bright_side_of_exceptions

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: The bright side of exceptions Proposer: didier_verna Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: In many programming languages, the term “exception” really means “error”. This is rather unfortunate because an exception is normally just something that does not happen very often; not necessarily something bad or wrong.

the_c_11_standards_experience

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: The C++11 Standards Experience Proposer: alisdair_meredith Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: What is it like to explain exception safety to Herb Sutter? To tell Bjarne that he doesn't understand C++? Or to wrestle with libraries designed for language features that are years away from implementation? What are the downsides to a working week in Hawaii?!

the_evo_agile_method_-_a_front_end_to_scrum_and_other_agile_methods_for_focussing_on_stakeholder_value

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: The Evo Agile Method - A Front End to Scrum and other Agile methods, for Focussing on Stakeholder Value Proposer: tom_gilb Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: Blurb: The 'Evo' (Evolutionary) Agile method is one of the earliest Agile methods (documented and practiced at least 30 years before the Agile Manifesto), and is credited publicly by most top tier agile Gurus (Beck, Sutherland, Highsmith and others) as being a direct inspiration to the…

the_git_parable

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: The Git Parable Proposer: johan_herland Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: The Git Parable - a different approach to understanding Git 60 minutes + 30 mins Q&A Learning and using Git commands is all well and good, but until you have a working understanding of how Git itself thinks and works, it will still feel like a strange beast with lots of sharp and pointy bits.

the_history_of_a_cache

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: A history of a cache Proposer: hubert_matthews Type: Case Study Duration: 90 minutes Description: This is the story of a cache component and its evolution from a simple C++ std::map to a high-performance, multi-threaded cache in shared memory called from legacy code and all without changing the calling code's interface. This talk will cover topics such as the bugs that TDD didn't catch and how they were found, how to test concurrent software, how the design …

the_impact_estimation_tool_for_management_of_design_and_projects_-_a_real_software_engineering_approach

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: The Impact Estimation Tool for Management of Design and Projects - A Real Software Engineering Approach Proposer: tom_gilb Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: The Impact Estimation Table is a planning and analysis tool, invented by the speaker persoanlli over several decades of practice. Its principal purpose is to give us insight into how any design, strategy or architecture is expected to impact anyset of objectives for performance and qua…

the_national_museum_of_computing

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: The National Museum of Computing Proposer: astrid_byro Type: Presentation Duration: 45/90 minutes Description: Presentation on what the museum is, and does, and has. Roger: weakly in favour [Ewan: YES, but does it fit in the main programme? Would there be space at lunch or end of afternoon?]

the_phb_transmogrification_kit_-_10_shamelessly_pragmatic_ways_to_convert_meddling_managers_into_helpful_heroes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: The PHB Transmogrification Kit - 10 shamelessly pragmatic ways to convert meddling managers into helpful heroes Proposer: tom_sedge Type: Tutorial/Workshop Duration: 90 minutes Description: Ever struggled with a boss that just doesn’t “get it”? Ever wished you could just be left alone to get on with it? Ever wished Henry Gantt had never been born or that his wife had burned his notebook?

the_story_of_raspberry_pi

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: The Story of the Raspberry Pi Proposer: eben_upton Type: Keynote Duration: 60 minutes Description:

the_true_cost_of_software_bugs_and_what_to_do_about_it

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: The true cost of software bugs and what to do about it Proposer: greg_law Proposer: julian_smith Type: Tutorial (with case-study elements) Duration: 90 minutes Description: Bugs have been estimated to cost the global economy $600bn annually, making debugging an endeavour of similar scale and impact to solving the Euro crisis. Yet startlingly little attention is paid to the problem by wider society or by the industry itself. In this talk we present the resul…

thom_leggett

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Along with Matthew Gilliard I run BrisFunctional - Bristol's premier (ok, only) functional programming club. Having had a lot of exposure to FP at university I was sad to find that it was not widely appreciated in industry. A club seemed to be the best way to both spread the word and continue to learn alongside some smart people. It was.

thoughts_on_error_handling

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Thoughts on Error Handling Proposer: frank_birbacher Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Focusing on C++, but touching also Java and Haskell, the talk reasons about error handling in general and in C++ in particular. Function arguments are a central topic as well as limits that we have to deal with in checking their validity. For that matter, function arguments are categorized and for each category various possible checks are discussed. This inc…

tobias_darm

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: I am an interested developer. Mainly working with C++ and programming embedded devices used in an intensive care environment at Dräger medical. I like to learn and teach about software development and do tutorials and workshops in my company encouraging a modern programming style.

tom_gilb

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Tom started his career at IBM in 1958. In 1960 he founded his own company and has been a business consultant ever since. He pioneered the evolution of iterative development, and his classic book Principles of Software Engineering Management (1988) now in 20th printing, is explicitly credited by Kent Beck and other agile method leaders as the source of short development cycles and many other ideas in development of the agile methods. Currently he works as a consultan…

tom_sedge

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: My first job was writing telescope-control software at Uni in BBC assembler. Then I joined an ISP in the mid-90s as employee #2; in at the deep end with UNIX, TCP-IP, Sendmail and much more. Then I did “internet” consultancy (websites, scripts, Applets) and UNIX/TCP-IP training. I started my own software and consultancy business, specialising in Java and digital security, went well for 3 years (6 employees) then bust with the .com crash. Back as an employee for …

transactional_memory_for_c

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Transactional Memory for C++ Proposer: michael_wong Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: SG5 plans to bring forward a proposal for two types of transactions based on V1.1 of the Draft Transactional Memory for C++ that has been worked on for 4 years.

transactional_memory

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Transactional Memory Proposer: detlef_vollmann Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: For quite some time transactional memory is presented as the future way of synchronization and a way to get rid of explicit locking. Now, the future is here.

understanding_the_evolution_of_whole_teams_using_the_dreyfus_model

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Understanding the Evolution of Whole Teams (using the Dreyfus Model) Proposer: matt_barcomb Type: Workshop Duration: 90 minutes Description: Whole Team is one of the key concepts behind Agile flourishing. However, many organizations stop with only a truncated implementation, simply having testers and coders sitting together. In some cases, many look at this simplistic application and believe the practice of Whole Team doesn't scale to the enterprise, which i…

unspecified_and_undefined

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Unspecified and Undefined Proposer: olve_maudal Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Strange things can, and will, happen if you break the rules of the language. In C there is a very detailed contract between the programmer and the compiler that you need to understand well. It is sometimes said that upon encountering a contract violation in C, it is legal for the compiler to make nasal demons fly out of your nose. In practice, however, compilers …

use_the_source

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Use the Source Proposer: dietmar_kuehl Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Using C or C++ source for any user created tool used to be near impossible due to the complexity of the languages, especially for C++. The open source compiler clang <

user_requirements_for_the_21st_century_user-centred_design_in_agile

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: User Requirements for the 21st Century (User-Centred Design in Agile) Proposer: william_hudson Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: The role of IT has changed enormously in the past 20 years, yet how we go about eliciting requirements and developing software is firmly rooted in the last century (Agile stems from practices at the Lockheed Skunk Works in the 1940s). To build usable systems with good user experience we need user-centred design; itsel…

using_data_to_understand_how_you_develop_software

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

using_fluent_interfaces_to_solve_everyday_problems

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Using Fluent Interfaces to solving everyday problems Proposer: dror_helper Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Not many developers are familiar with the concept of DSLs (Domain Specific Languages) even fewer use them in their day job. It is believed that creating a new language is a hard job that should only be left for professors in the academia or certain developers that write compilers for a living. This notion is utterly wrong!

visualizing_legacy_code_and_data_using_moose

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Visualizing Legacy Code and Data, using MOOSE Proposer: willem_van_den_ende Proposer: stephan_eggermont Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Visualizing the state of a piece of software to all stakeholders is crucial to understanding. A recent data conversion project was much easier to steer with daily visualizations. We created visualizations of both data and code. MOOSE is a toolset that makes it easy to build a code browser, graph or other vi…

wei_wang

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio:Wei Wang is a senior research engineer in the Research Group of ARM Ltd in Cambridge. Wei Wang contributed the Black-Scholes in Hardware article on ACCU Overload 110. Email:camwwang@gmail.com improving_application_efficiency_on_arm_-_what_app_developers_need_to_know_about_hardware_systems

what_c_11_means_for_class_and_framework_designers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: What C++11 means for class and framework designers Proposer: nico_josuttis Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Although C++11 might be a help for application programmers it definitely add a lot work and thinking to class, library, and framework providers. So let's talk about move operators, type traits, and more.

what_s_that_smell_-_refactor_away_that_nasty_odo

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: What's that smell? - Refactor away that nasty odor Proposer: marc_evers Proposer: rob_westgeest Proposer: willem_van_den_ende Type: Workshop Duration: 90 minutes Description: Often, you feel there are some things just not right with the code you’re currently working wit. It is not always clear what exactly the problem is, but you can see some indicators of underlying problems. Many years ago, Extreme Programming founder and Agile pioneer Kent Beck coined t…

what_s_that_smell_-_refactor_away_that_nasty_odor

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

what_the_lwg_did_next

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: What the C++ Library Working Group did next Proposer: alisdair_meredith Type: Presentation Duration: 90 minutes Description: The C++ Library grew significantly for the C++11 standard, embracing new language features such as move-semantics and list-initialization, adding basic support types like function and tuple, adding larger facilities such as the regular expressions and extensible random number facility, and adopting the new memory model and providing ba…

why_is_c_11_library_code_impossible_to_read_and_understand

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Why is C++11 library code impossible to read and understand? Proposer: nico_josuttis Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 minutes Description: Let's look at some g++ implementations of standard classes and try top get an idea why it is full of traits and what they are good for.

willem_van_den_ende

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Willem van den Ende is a Dutch eXtreme Programming pioneer. He works as a developer, trainer and coach, and enjoys the feedback between working with both feet on the ground, and reflecting on that while consulting or training. Willem is an appreciated workshop facilitator and presenter at various practitioners’ conferences. He is always looking for better and more fun ways to do software development/

william_hudson

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: William Hudson has 40 years’ experience in the development of interactive systems. He has contributed material on user-centered design and user interface design to the Rational Unified Process and to Addison-Wesley’s Object Modeling and User Interface Design (van Harmelen, 2001). William has written and taught courses that have been presented to hundreds of software and web developers, designers and managers in the UK, North America and Europe. He is the founder of…

william_wang

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: William Wang is a senior research engineer in the Systems Research Group of ARM Ltd in Cambridge UK. He's published on ACCU Overload (August 2012). Email:william.wang@arm.com Improving Application Efficiency on ARM - what App developers need to know about hardware systems

worse_is_better_for_better_or_for_worse

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to proposals-2013 Title: Worse Is Better, for Better or for Worse Proposer: kevlin_henney Type: Keynote Duration: 60 minutes Description: Over two decades ago, Richard P Gabriel proposed the idea of “Worse Is Better” to explain why some things that are designed to be pure and perfect are eclipsed by solutions that are seemingly compromised and imperfect. This is not simply the observation that things should be better but are not, or that flawed and ill-considered solutions are super…

zsolt_fabok

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00

Back to speakers-2013 Bio: Zsolt is a team leader and a blogger. He has always been curious about software development processes and how to turn them to our advantage and create better products. When he started to get familiar with the Agile, Lean and eXtreme Programming methodologies six years ago, he immediately became an enthusiast. He spent the last three years mastering Kanban and helping the organizations he has been working in to successfully adapt its principles. He is the founder and…