wiki.accu.org - 2014

abusing_csharp_5

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Abusing CSharp 5 Proposer: Jon Skeet Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Horrible but entertaining code which should never see the light of day.

accelerated_agile

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Accelerated Agile Proposer: Dan North Type: preconference tutorial Duration: 360 mins Description: Great software professionals build better software faster. Agile methods, continuous delivery and software craftsmanship helped speed up delivery from years to months or even weeks, but then what?

accessible_algorithms

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Accessible Algorithms Proposer: Dietmar Kuhl Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: The standard C++ library contains a fairly large set of algorithms suitable for containers. The interface to these algorithms makes them unnecesary hard to use: Even if there is a readily available perfect match, the need to extract a pair of iterators for a container seems unnecessary hard. Also, the interface is makes it hard or inefficient to apply the algorithms t…

adam_tornhill

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Adam combines degrees in engineering and psychology to get a different perspective on the cognitive and social challenges of software. In his day job as a software consultant Adam works as an architect and programmer. While he often gets paid to code in C#, Java and Python, he's more likely to hack Clojure or Erlang in his spare time. Adam has published an open-source library for building distributed Erlang nodes in C++. He's the author of the popular Lisp for the…

adapetva_s_parallela_-_data-flow_and_data-parallelism_on_novel_architectures

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Adapetva's Parallela: Data-Flow & Data-Parallelism on Novel Architectures! Proposer: Jason McGuiness Type: Case-Study Duration: 90 mins Description: Based upon previous work in Dataflow & Data-Parallel based parallelism, this presentation focuses upon the obtaining performance metrics from a novel computer architecture.

advanced_agile_practices_-_the_evo_method_in_practice

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Advanced Agile Practices - The Evo Method in practice Proposer: Tom Gilb Type: Case-Studies Duration: 90 mins Description: 1. Case Study of presenting Agile for the whole Organization to top management (CEO); making serious agility scary, as opposed to oversimplified. Use of Rico's agile and lean structures. Redefining agile, as what gives real value.

agile_and_mobile_-_do_they_work_together_as_well_as_they_sound

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title:Agile & Mobile - Do They Work Together As Well As They Sound? Proposer: Phil Nash Type: Tutorial-Case-study-discussion Duration: 90 mins Description: Most discussion of agile practices and processes seem to assume a context of desktop applications or web or server-based systems. They also tend to imply an enterprise context that colours the way priorities and expectations are set.

alan_griffiths

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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. He is 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 2014-speakers Bio: Alex is the POCO (C++ POrtable COmponents, ) Project Lead, C++ Standard Study Group 4 (Networking) participant, 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, Croa…

alexander_bogush

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Alexander is a project manager and senior software engineer working at Schlumberger. In the last 15 years he has worked in Kazakhstan, Russia, and England on real-time/logging/data management distributed systems using .NET and Java, and more recently modeling/simulation/optimization software. He graduated from Novosibirsk State University with an MSc in Applied Math and Computer Science. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Scrum Master (CS…

alisdair_meredith

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Alisdair Meredith is a software developer at BloombergLP in New York, and the C++ Standard Committee Library Working Group chair. He has been an active member of the C++ committee for just over a decade, and by a lucky co-incidence his first meeting was the kick-off meeting for the project that would become C++11, and also fixed the contents of the original library TR.

all_about_exceptions

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: All About Exceptions Proposer: Frank Birbacher Type: Preconference Workshop Duration: 360 mins Description: The tutorial will deal with all of the aspects of C++ exceptions. It will cover syntax and semantics of the built-in keywords, the meaning and use of the library support functions and classes, and the craft of using these tools to build exception safe code with the basic, strong and nofail exception safety guarantees in mind. Topics are:

allan_kelly

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Allan Kelly has held just about every job in the software world, from system admin to development manager by way of programmer and product manager. Today he works helping teams adopt and deepen Agile practices, and writing far too much. He specialises in working with software product companies and aligning products and processes with company strategy.

alpar_gabos

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Alpar Gabos is a software craftsman at Prezi in Budapest, creating the future format of idea sharing. Before he joined Prezi, he had been working at Nokia Siemens Networks for 3 years, first as developer and later on as a Scrum Master. He built a high-performing team from ground zero in over one year with the help of programming practices, principles and with attitude change towards software craftsmanship. At Prezi he develops quality software with the help of Twi…

an_agile_project_startup_week

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title:An Agile Project Startup Week Proposer: Tom Gilb Type: Case-Studies Duration: 90 mins Description: Week: How to start any agile project in a single overview week, and get the basis for quick continuous measurable value delivery to customers and users, and other stakeholders.

an_introduction_to_declarative_logic_programming_with_answer_set_programming

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Say what you want not how you want it done - logic programming with answer sets Proposer: Marina De Vos Proposer: Willem van den Ende Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: If you’ve ever struggled with programming a solution for a problem that had easy to describe constraints, but is difficult to implement, this session may be for you. Good programmers are lazy - so why waste your time implementing a solution when the computer can do it for you…

andrew_sutton

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Andrew Sutton is an assistant professor at the University of Akron in Ohio where he teaches and conducts research at the intersection of Software Engineering and Programming Languages. Dr. Sutton helped design and implemented the Concepts Lite proposal for the C++ programming language. He is also the author of the Origin C++ Libraries, an experimental collection of generic libraries that supports ideas and research for generic programming. Dr. Sutton had previously …

andy_brice

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: I am a UK-based software developer with over twenty five years of professional software development experience. In 2005 I had enough of working for other people and decided to start my own software product business. I have been pleasantly surprised with the success of my first product, event planning software PerfectTablePlan, and I am still working on it over 8 years later. I am currently working on a second product. I also teach a 2 day training course for peop…

angelika_langer

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Angelika Langer works as a trainer and consultant with a course curriculum of Java and C++ seminars. She enjoys speaking at conferences, among them JavaOne, JAX, JFokus, JavaZone and many more (see lanyrd.com/profile/angelikalanger/). She is author of the online

anthony_williams

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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@justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk The continuing future of C++ concurrency Location: Cornwall

architecture_engineering

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title:Architecture Engineering Proposer: Tom Gilb Type: pre-conference tutorial Duration: 360 mins Description: The use of a quantified Planning Language to articulate all quality and other performance variable attributes of all designs, architecture ideas, and strategies as a basis for Architecture Decisions and Quantified Agile Project Management (Evo)

arjan_van_leeuwen

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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.

arrows_in_haskell_s_hxt_library

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Arrows in Haskell's HXT library Proposer: Frank Birbacher Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: The Haskell HXT library is an open source library to processe XML and it offers its operations as 'arrows.' Arrows are an abstraction from ordinary functions like monads abstract from regular values. The special class of list arrows allows a concise, yet strong syntax for traversing an object tree like an XML DOM tree. Even more, it allows filtering, modi…

astrid_byro

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Astrid Byro is Head of Project Management at Comanaco, specialising in information management solutions for global enterprises and has been in the business for over 15 years. Astrid has done projects in the construction, transport, asset management, engineering, petrochemical, banking, insurance, agrichemical and utilities industries.

asynchrony_in_csharp_5

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Asynchrony in CSharp 5 Proposer: Jon Skeet Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description:

austin_bingham

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Austin is a founding director of Sixty North, a software consulting, training, and application development company. A native of Texas, in 2008 Austin moved to Stavanger, Norway where he helped develop industry-leading oil reservoir modeling software in C++ and Python. Prior to that he worked at National Instruments developing LabVIEW, at Applied Research Labs (Univ. of Texas at Austin) developing sonar systems for the U.S. Navy, and at a number of telecommunicatio…

automated_test_hell_or_there_and_back_again

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Automated Test Hell, or There and Back Again Proposer: Wojciech Seliga Type: Case-Study Duration: 90 mins Description: Almost 2 years ago we faced the fact that we are hitting the wall with our large scale automated testing of Atlassian JIRA - the product we have been developing in agile way for almost a decade. The cost of running and maintaining tests was growing exponentially. We analysed the problems and possible solutions and started the improvement pr…

balog_pal

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: My first programs that hit the market were games for Commodore 64, 30 years ago. Since then I worked in various environments including solo, small team and big international team, and projects including embedded devices, data gathering, communication, banking, healthcare and currently CAD. The long time allowed me to see the full lifecycle of many projects from idea to being decommissioned. Success with one or multiple generations. And failures up front or aft…

behaviour_driven_development_live_session_-_from_the_idea_to_working_software

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Behaviour Driven Development live session -From the idea to working software Proposer: Alpar Gabos Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: We all know how Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) should work from books, but can we apply all of its principles in real life? Is it helpful to apply? Is it worth it? If yes, then how can we build a working, high quality software from scratch? In this workshop we will see how can we apply BDD through a real life e…

bill_liao

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Diplomat, investor, entrepreneur, business mentor, speaker and author, Bill Liao co-founded the business social network service XING and is a venture partner at SOS Ventures, a global venture capital firm and investment management firm. Bill is a special diplomatic envoy for St Kitts and Nevis for sustainable development and the environment. He is also the founder of WeForest.org, an international not-for-profit organization combating global warming in the most na…

biological_realms_in_computer_science

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Biological Realms in Computer Science Proposer: Didier Verna Type: keynote Duration: 60 mins Description: In biology, evolution is usually seen as a tinkering process, different from what an engineer does when he plans the development of his systems. Recently, studies have shown that even in biology, there is a part of good engineering. As computer scientists, we have much more difficulty to admit that there is also a great deal of tinkering in what we do,…

building_on_solid_foundations

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Building on Solid Foundations Proposer: Nat Pryce Proposer: Steve Freeman Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: We know we're supposed to break code up into coherent parts, but many codebases just don't seem to get it right. To add some simple feature, we have to tear things apart or, worse, patch and work around the existing code. In a better system, it would just take a few lines of code to change our object graph. Why is it often so hard? We…

burkhard_kloss

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Having spent most of my career doing C++ and Python in Investment Banking, I've started exploring R for data analysis in the last few years. I've also dealt with other technologies, but I try not to talk about them too much ;) I've also run teams of a variety of sizes.

c_11_14_for_the_rest_of_us._simpler_code_with_more_power

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: C++11/14 for the rest of us. Simpler Code with More Power! Proposer: Peter Sommerlad Type: Preconference Tutorial Duration: 360 mins Description: With the publication of the new C++11 ISO standard and the upcoming release of its C++14 update one might ask what that will mean to current or past skills in that language. In addition one could recognize that even Microsoft returns to promote native C++ instead of the .NET languages for some new developments t…

c_14_an_overview_on_the_new_standard_for_c_11_programmers

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: C++14 an overview on the new standard for C++(11) programmers Proposer: Peter Sommerlad Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: The standardization process of C++ accelerated. After C++11 we will have a bug-fix release in 2014. This talk will summarize the most important 'fixes' and new features that were introduced with C++14. It will not only list the features, but also show how these features simplify the life of a C++ programmer, especially one, t…

c_best_practice_-_designing_header_files

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: C++ Best Practice - Designing Header Files Proposer: Alan Griffiths Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: C++, shares information between translation units with a directive to insert text from a header file. This text is inserted with no regard for the surrounding context and, as a result, successful the use of header files relies on a number of conventions.

c_dynamic_performance

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: C++ Dynamic Performance Proposer: Aleksandar Fabijanic Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: The tutorial continues the exploration of C++ type erasure solutions, this time with emphasis on detailed performance comparisons between various library solutions as well as performance improvements that can be achieved when new C++11 features are employed. Session will cover the 'usual suspects' - dynamic typing solutions from from Boost, Poco and Facebo…

c_is_irrelevant_with_d_go_and_rust_around

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: C++ is Irrelevant with D, Go and Rust Around? Proposer: Russel Winder Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: C++ is a venerable language, but it doesn't so much evolve as grow bigger. When it does evolve it is in 10 year cycles. D has for 10 years been what C++ might like to become. Everything that C++ has, D has, but better. D also has more and is a smaller language. But D is big. Go is not. And it has communicating sequential processes (CSP).…

c_pub_quiz

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: C++ Pub Quiz Proposer: Olve Maudal Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins 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 explor…

c_s_future_-_concepts-lite_-_how_a_future_template_parameter_type_system_might_look_like

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: C++'s future - Concepts-Lite - how a future template parameter type system might look like Proposer: Peter Sommerlad Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: The standardization of C++0x lead to the drop of the language feature called 'concepts' due to the complexity of its specification and implementation. Now the protagonists of a type system for template parameters propose a new approach to get constraints on template parameters into the language st…

c_undefined_behavior_-_what_is_it_and_why_should_i_care

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: C++ Undefined Behavior - what is it, and why should I care? Proposer: Marshall Clow Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: More and more people are becoming aware of undefined behavior (UB) in C and C++. It has become a research interest at several universities, and code generators routinely use information about UB when deciding how to optimize code. In this talk, I will give examples of UB, show how optimizers reason about UB while doing code gene…

changes_in_the_c_14_standard_library

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: The C++14 Standard Library Proposer: Nico Josuttis Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: A talk about the changes in the library with C++14

charles_bailey

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Charles is a software developer at Bloomberg LP. He works in the Source Control Governance team where he helps maintain and improve the tools used in development. His previous career in software has included roles in such diverse areas as web technology, business intelligence, data warehousing, defence and radar.

charles_tolman

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Having started in electronics back in the mid 70s I moved into software shortly after getting an Electronic Engineering degree at Southampton. Moving 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. Having seen many silver bullets come and go, I am interested in programmer development as much as improv…

chris_o_dell

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Chris O'Dell is a Lead Developer at 7digital, one of London's premier digital download companies, where she heads up the API team. She has nearly ten years experience working on the back-ends of web based services, primarily in .Net, most recently focussing on Web APIs.

chris_oldwood

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Chris is a freelance developer who started out as a bedroom coder in the 80's writing assembler on 8-bit micros; these days it's C++ and C# in plush corporate offices. He also commentates on the Godmanchester duck race and can be contacted via gort@cix.co.uk or @chrisoldwood.

christopher_simons

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: As a Medical Laboratory Technician in the 80's, Chris found himself increasingly automating laboratory tests when someone told him what he was actually doing was programming. As this was rather fun, Chris studied for his MSc in IT from Bristol Polytechnic in 1989. He became a software engineer, then architect, then agile methodology and design consultant and trainer, before then taking up a lectureship at the University of the West of England, Bristol in 2002. He …

chuck_allison

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Chuck Allison is Professor of Computer Science at Utah Valley University. Before he joined the faculty in 2001, he spent 20 years developing software in FORTRAN, C, C++, and Java. He was a contributing member of the ISO Committee for C++98, Senior Editor for The C/C++ Users Journal, and wrote two books on C++ (Thinking in C++ Volume 2 - with Bruce Eckel, C and C++ Code Capsules). He lives in Springville, Utah, USA.

claudius_link

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: During nearly 20 years working in the software business, Claudius held 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 for IBM leading a team developing content security software.

clojure_is_the_new_c

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Clojure is the new C Proposer: Robert Martin Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Why do we love C? Many reasons. Among them are it's simple syntax, it's minimal semantics, and it's closeness to the hardware. But for the last decade we have been transitioning into an era where the hardware doesn't matter. Who, 30 years ago, would have thought that the majority of enterprise applications would be executing on virtual machines; and that a plurality…

coderdojo_and_self_organization

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: CoderDojo and Self Organization Proposer: Bill Liao Type: keynote Duration: 60 mins Description: Consumer software thrives when a certain cocktail of ingredients are applied to the UX/UI. These principles of design which include scale-free self-organizing systems were applied to CoderDojo as an organization and the impact has been global and continues to expand. Speaking about the design of the system that makes CoderDojo work Bill will share insights that …

coderetreat

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Coderetreat! Proposer: Mike Long Type: Preconference Workshop Duration: 360 mins Description: Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design. By providing developers the opportunity to take part in focused practice, away from the pressures of 'getting things done', the coderetreat format has proven itself to be a highly effective means of skill improvement. Practicing the basic principles…

comfortable_concurrency

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Comfortable concurrency Proposer: Dominic Robinson Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Reflections on what is comfortable and uncomfortable about developing concurrent software. What makes for 'comfortable software', that is to say software that is comfortable to work with? In this talk, Dominic Robinson will take a look at different models of concurrency, their applicability and impact on your comfort as a developer.

complementary_visions_-_integrating_c_and_python_with_boost.python

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Complementary Visions: Integrating C++ and Python with Boost.Python Proposer: Austin Bingham Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Python and C++ are both popular languages that each bring a lot to the table. The languages also complement one another well: Python is high-level, dynamic, and easy to use while C++ is at-the-metal, static, and (in)famously tricky. There are times when there are real advantages to combining these disparate natures, and …

continuous_delivery_with_legacy_code

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Continuous Delivery with Legacy Code Proposer: Dan Swain Proposer: Leon Hewitt Type: Case-Study Duration: 45 mins Description: Your team are invited to a meeting about their next exciting assignment. The company's doing so well and taking so much money, that now the banks need you audit for PCI compliance. You start looking at what's involved in changing this vast legacy codebase to comply. What you discover is a labyrinth of code with many traps and even …

continuous_integration_101

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Continuous Integration 101 Proposer: Paul Grenyer Proposer: Chris O Dell Type: Tutorial Duration: 360 mins Description: Objectives Continuous Integration 101 is a foundation continuous integration course for Java developers. It is a practical course that can be completed within a working day in most cases. After completing the course you will:

cool_and_ripe_for_exploitation_-_search-based_software_engineering_sbse

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Cool and Ripe for Exploitation: Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE) Proposer: Christopher Simons Type: Case-Study Duration: 90 mins Description: Once in a while, a very good idea comes along. When explained, we might wonder why we didn't think of it before. For instance, many software programming tasks involve making trade-off judgments between conflicting needs. Should my code be robust or fast? Should it be rock-solid or is the need to ship to market…

crafting_more_effective_technical_presentations

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Crafting more effective technical Presentations Proposer: Dirk Haun Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: The typical technical presentation in 2014 still consists of slides full of bullet points, completely ignoring evidence showing that this form of presenting is not very effective in helping your audience understand and remember your content.

creating_safe_multi-threaded_applications_in_c_11

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Creating safe multi-threaded applications in C++11 Proposer: Jos van Eijndhoven Type: Tutorial Duration: 45 mins Description: C++11 finally establishes the mechanisms and libraries to create portable multi-threaded applications. 'Portable' meaning both to different

cultural_considerations_for_working_in_the_middle_east

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Cultural Considerations for Working in the Middle East Proposer: Astrid Byro Type: Presentation Duration: 45 mins Description: While the IT market is moribund in the USA and Europe there are ample opportunities in the booming Middle East. This talk will cover some of the basic cultural considerations that one must be aware of when embarking on and managing projects in this area.

dadi_ingolfsson

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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_north

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Programmer and organizational change specialist Dan North applies principles from lean operations and agile software development to help organizations align their technology capabilities with their business objectives. With over twenty years of experience in IT, Dan is a frequent speaker at technology conferences worldwide, has published feature articles in numerous software and business publications, and contributed to The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development…

dan_swain

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Dan Swain is a software developer at Wonga formerly 7digital. He has over 10 years of experience developing software and is old enough to have seen his old code moved into a folder called legacy. An advocate of delivering value through agile, lean or any other buzzword Dan has a keen interest in the business of software and the impact it can have on the world.

derek_jones

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Working on source code analysis having previously written compilers for a variety of languages and processors. Currently writing a book on empirical software engineering using R. Over the last few years have been researching software engineering from a cognitive psychology perspective.

detlef_vollmann

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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…

developing_organizational_health

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Developing Organizational Health Proposer: Dadi Ingolfsson Type: Presentation Duration: 45 mins Description: Roughly: Health is important, even more so than smarts in organizations. I will present Lencioni's Advantage model for developing organizational health (for the entire org, the SW dev org, or any part of a company). Then I'll describe how we use it in our company to stay healthy.

diagnoses_for_your_project

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Diagnoses for your Project Proposer: Klaus Marquardt Proposer: Claudius Link Type: Tutorial with workshop elements Duration: 90 mins Description: When you are new 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. Mostly this is fascinating, sometimes this is worrysome - and in retrospect, you co…

didier_verna

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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_kuhl

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Dietmar Kuehl is a senior software developer at Bloomberg L.P. working on the data distrubtion environ used both internally and in enterprise installations at clients. 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 2014-speakers Bio: Dirk Haun has worked as a software developer before moving on to the fields of QA and build management. His ultimate goal is to free the world from bad presentations, which he pursues by helping his fellow geeks improve their presentation skills. Dirk runs presentation workshops, wrote an ebook (Presenting for Geeks), regularly blogs about the topic of presentations, and helps organise TEDxStuttgart, an event that showcases examples of short and to-the-point prese…

dmytro_mindra

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Dmytro has been developing commercial software for almost a decade, and he has an in-depth knowledge of software development practices and techniques. In his own words: “Programming is my hobby, my profession, my calling, my art. It is the world without boundaries, without physical limitations. It is the world where only your fantasy is the limit.

dominic_robinson

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Dominic has mis-spent the last 27 years developing video games, flight simulators and software development tools in various assembly languages, C and C++. He founded and sold a video games company during the .com boom and is now a principal engineer at SN Systems, the subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment that is responsible for the development tools for the Sony PlayStation platforms. He has spent the last 5 years developing a fault tolerant, distributed bu…

donal_mulvany

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Donal is a contract programmers working in the finance sector. He is fed up of trying to understand and refactor bad code bases by hand. Email: donal_mulvany@hotmail.com Generative C++ Visualizing Code Generative C++ Scripting Generative C++ Hosting Location: London

dori_exterman

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: An expert software developer and product strategist, Dori has 20 years of experience in the software development industry. As Chief Technical Officer, he directs the company's product strategy and is responsible for product vision, implementation, and technical partnerships. Before joining IncrediBuild, Dori held a variety of technical and product development roles at software development companies, with a focus on architecture, performance and advanced technologies…

duncan_mcgregor

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Homepage: Email: duncan@oneeyedmen.com It's Time to Light the Lights Location: Hamshire, England

dynamic_design_prioritization

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title:Dynamic Design Prioritization Proposer: Tom Gilb Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: 'Intelligent Project Management' (for a change, or it that an Oxymoron?) A proposed solution the the 50% total and 40% additional failure rate of software projects

ed_sykes

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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_pair_programming

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Effective Pair Programming Proposer: Ivan Stepaniuk Type: Presentation Duration: 45 mins Description: Pair programming is a central element in Extreme Programming (XP) and its correct practice dramatically improves software quality. The technique is however quite difficult to master, and not doing it properly will not only be frustrating for the developers but also a waste of the team and company resources. This talk introduces different approaches to the t…

eleanor_mchugh

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: London-based hacker Ellie has a passion for the esoteric corners of programming stretching back to her misspent teenage years. During the course of her career she's worked on mission critical systems ranging from avionics to banking security and now devotes her time to writing digital romances in Ruby and Go. In her free time she enjoys polyhedral dice, home brewing and gothic music.

empirical_software_engineering_with_r

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Empirical Software Engineering with R Proposer: Derek Jones Type: Preconference Tutorial Duration: 360 mins Description: A hands on tutorial (i.e., 60 min talking, 30 minute problem solving, repeat) on analyzing software engineering related data using R. Based on a book I am working, see:

end-to-end_tdd

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: End-to-end TDD Proposer: Hubert Matthews Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: When designing systems people often struggle with knowing where to start and how to build testable systems. Although increasingly popular, TDD can be tricky to start as it relies heavily on good design practices. Refactoring interfaces can cause reworking of tests, causing people to question the value of tests. Furthermore, TDD can become slow or hard to repeat when…

enterprise_gardening_-_transforming_workplaces_into_somewhere_we_belong

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Enterprise Gardening - Transforming workplaces into somewhere we belong Proposer: Portia Tung Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: Do you feel all washed out and chewed up by your daily slog? Are you snowed under an ever-growing mountain of low value work? Do you dream instead of making a dent in the world through positive contribution to the world from where you're sitting?

everything_you_ever_wanted_to_know_about_move_semantics_and_then_some

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Move Semantics (and then some) Proposer: Howard Hinnant Type: keynote Duration: 60 mins Description: Get the lowdown on move semantics from the person who put move semantics into C++11. Learn what the best practices are and what popular practices are not best. Learn about the interaction of move semantics with noexcept, and exception safety. Learn when to default and when to delete special members, and even more i…

evolution_of_c_libraries

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Evolution of C++ Libraries Proposer: Alisdair Meredith Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: The C++ Standard Committee are ambitious for new standard libraries. We want to see more of them, and to deliver them more quickly. Following the decade-long development of C++11, we are now moving at a much quicker pace, and this session will catch up on the latest developments of the C++14 standard library, and multiple active Technical Specification…

evolving_organization_with_holacracy

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title:Evolving Organization with Holocracy Proposer: Dadi Ingolfsson Type: Presentation Duration: 45 mins Description: Roughly: This talk will tackle two main points: 1) What is Holacracy? 2) What does applying it look like at a small Agile Software Development company?

exception_safety_guarantees_in_c

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Exception Safety Guarantees in C++ Proposer: Frank Birbacher Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: When learning programming C++ there is the point where exceptions and try-catch are introduced. The classes I've seen just explain the language syntax around throw and catch, but don't go tell you that your code usually doesn't need try-catch. The talk discusses what the basic, strong and nofail exception safety guarantees are and how to implement them…

exceptional_handling

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Exceptional Handling Proposer: Klaus Marquardt Proposer: Claudius Link Type: Tutorial and stories that could be true Duration: 90 mins 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', or 'establish a rational error handling policy'. This understanding leads to instable systems, and to diagnosis reports that miss the root caus…

executors_for_c

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Executors for C++ Proposer: Detlef Vollmann Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Executors (or schedulers) will be a base building block in C++ for asynchronous and parallel work. Executors for asynchronisity are somehow similar to allocators for containers: They are a very important implementation aspect, but for most people they are hidden behind the scene.

extended_xp_game

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Extended XP Game Proposer: Allan Kelly Type: Hands-on Session Duration: 90 mins Description: Back in the days when Extreme Programming was new, and agile referred to acrobatics, someone created a game to explain XP to teams. Allan Kelly too played this game to learn, and then he played it to teach others and he did it again and again. And in doing so he added bits, found new lessons and improved the game. It is now a standard part of his agile introducti…

filip_van_laenen

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Filip van Laenen is a Chief Engineer at the Norwegian software company Computas AS, which supplies IT solutions to the public and the private sector in Norway. He has more than fifteen years of experience in the software industry, from being a developer in both small and large teams to being the lead developer and competency leader for security and software engineering for the whole company. In his professional career he has mainly used programming languages like …

floating-point_numbers_aren_t_real

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Floating-Point Numbers Aren't Real Proposer: Chuck Allison Type: Tutorial Duration: 45 mins Description: Too many developers use floating-point numbers without a sufficient understanding of how they behave. Notorious mishaps, such as the malfunction of the Mars Rover( 'Curiosity'), show the crucial need for mastery in numeric computing. This tutorial gives developers what they need to know to create reliable numeric software. Topics include the architecture…

fr-agile_without_good_thinking

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Fr-agile without good thinking Proposer: Balog Pal Type: Tutorial/Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: At my previous workplace supposedly SCRUM was used but I soon discovered that while the formal elements are there it's really something else, and doesn't work either. So I held a series of seminar sessions to look at the thinking patterns, the underlying philosophy it was originally built on. What in surprisingly short time lead to streamlining the p…

frances_buontempo

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Biog: 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…

frank_birbacher

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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 in…

functional_programming_makes_a_comeback

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Functional Programming Makes A Comeback Proposer: Chuck Allison Type: Tutorial Duration: 45 mins Description: Functional and imperative programming had their start at about the same time: 1936! The Turing machine led to imperative programming and Church's lambda calculus to functional programming. These paradigms found their first, high-level outlets in FORTRAN and Lisp, respectively. The twain are now meeting in today's popular programming languages. This …

gail_ollis

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: I have been writing software for many years, working on applications rang- ing from radars and air traffic control to video effects and Java-powered cash registers. After twenty years as a professional programmer my long-term interest in the human element in programming practice finally led to a career break for a psychology degree. Now I am a postgraduate researcher at Bournemouth University, where I also teach programming to first year undergraduates.

gavin_heavyside

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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 13 years Gavin has developed software for platforms including mobile phones, desktop PCs, servers and telephone exchanges…

geert_van_meerbergen

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Speaker biography: Geert Van Meerbergen is senior architect and group leader of the software and DSP group at Premium Sound Solutions, a subsidiary of the Denon & Marantz group. In his role, he is responsible for the design and deployment of software methodologies and architectures at Premium Sound Solutions, both in the automotive as in the consumer electronics space. He holds a M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Engineering - Signal Processing, both from the Catholic Uni…

generative_c_hosting

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title:Generative C++: Hosting Proposer: Martin Waplington Proposer: Donal Mulvany Type: Case-Study Duration: 90 mins Description: So you have a bunch of objects but really you'd like the same functionality in a web-service, or a fault tolerant cluster, or even just in a command line application. This is going to take time: you can't just throw your object into node.js or an erlang C-node. You'll need protocol mappings for the methods you want to expose, and some…

generative_c_scripting

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title:Generative C++: Scripting Proposer: Martin Waplington Proposer: Donal Mulvany Type: Case-Study Duration: 90 mins Description: Exposing the C++ objects of an application to scripting languages such as Lua, Python or JavaScript offers a myriad of opportunities beyond doing a DSL on the cheap: task automation, macro recording and undo, rapid prototyping, scalable testing, extensibility, flexible architecture to name a few. Unfortunately such exposure involves …

generative_c_visualizing_code

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title:Generative C++: Visualizing Code Proposer: Martin Waplington Proposer: Donal Mulvany Type: Case-Study Duration: 90 mins Description: The code you work on is often a complex mass; never is the documentation a true reflection of the code. Existing brown field work is almost void of any engineering diagrams that reflect the composition of the code base.

generic_programming_with_concepts_lite

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Generic Programming with Concepts Lite Proposer: Andrew Sutton Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: In this talk, I will give an overview of the Concepts Lite language extension for the C++ and present examples of its use in the design and implementation of real-world generic libraries. Concepts Lite provides the ability for programmers to directly state constraints on template arguments as part of the template declaration. These constraints are pr…

getline_considered_harmful

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Getline considered harmful Proposer: Frances Buontempo Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: High level interfaces can make code simpler to understand but can sometimes be slower than dropping down to lower level APIs or resorting to neat tricks. People with Computer Science degrees will have been taught complexity notation to use as a guide for how quickly something may run, but this ignores constant factors.On the face of it, getline is a simple h…

getting_started_with_ipv6

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Getting started with IPv6 Proposer: Jim Hague Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: The global pool of IPv4 addresses is exhausted, and the regional pools are running low. The pressures driving towards IPv6 are building. The device which runs your applications is almost certainly IPv6 capable. But what about your applications? What do you need to know about IPv6? What changes do you make need to make to your application to have it work over IPv6? H…

giovanni_asproni

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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_archaeology

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Git archaeology Proposer: Charles Bailey Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Source control is all warm and fuzzy in day-to-day to development but it should really come into its own when things are going wrong. Paradoxically, the need to delve into the past is frequently triggered by urgent events in the present. Something has gone wrong, but what caused this failure? What changed recently? How long has this function been coded like this? What …

greenspun_-_a_lisp_extension_library_for_go

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Greenspun - A Lisp Extension Library for Go Proposer: Eleanor McHugh Type: Case-Study Duration: 90 mins Description: Greenspun [ is a lightweight implementation of Lisp written in Go and intended for use as an application extension language. It features a byte code virtual machine based on the SECD architecture and a DSL for performing Lisp-like data manipulations in core application logic.

growing_games_guided_by_tests

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Growing Games Guided by Tests Proposer: Dmytro Mindra Type: Interactive Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: This interactive workshop will not only give an introduction to game development to the attendees, but also will reveal the techniques of building truly testable games. We will be using unit tests, integration tests and acceptance tests as our guides and safety net. We will change the requirements and make changes in the code. We will refactor the…

hash_define_hell_in_multi-platform_embedded_programming

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: #define hell in multi-platform embedded programming Proposer: Tore Martin Hagen Type: Presentation Duration: 45 mins Description: A lot of projects face the challenge that the source code has to be compiled for different targets. Either the same SW has to be compiled for different CPUs or slightly different code has to be compiled for the same CPU. In some projects the same binary code has to run on several different HW platforms, but behave differently. In…

he_s_not_the_messiah_-_cinema_and_myths_of_leadership

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: He's Not The Messiah! Cinema and myths of leadership Proposer: Jim Hague Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: At the climax to Peter Jackson's film “The Return of the King”, Aragon leads the remains of his army to the Black Gates of Mordor. He delivers a stirring speech to his forces before launching a final attack, providing the diversion that allows Frodo to achieve his goal. The curious thing about this speech is that it's not in Tolkein's story…

henry_coles

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Henry Coles is a failed chemist. For the last 14 years he has been working at becoming a better software developer. Based in Edinburgh, Henry has designed and developed award winning systems in domains ranging from energy trading and smart metering through to life insurance.

how_beauty_shapes_our_cognition_and_code

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: How beauty shapes our cognition and code Proposer: Adam Tornhill Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: What if your code was your child? Would you be proud of its growth in the face of ever changing environmental conditions through life's highs and lows? Do you find that you get along well or are you often in disagreement about how things should work? If your answers tend towards the negative side, this presentation is for you.

how_i_went_from_c_programmer_to_running_my_own_software_product_company_and_you_can_to

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: How I went from C++ programmer to running my own software product company (and you can to) Proposer: Andy Brice Type: Case Study Duration: 90 mins Description: Many software developers dream of escaping bosses, cubicles and TPS reports to start their own software product business. But they are put off the distorted 'Google or bust' image of starting your a software business portrayed by the media. I will discuss what it is really like to make a living selli…

how_to_gain_quality_in_software_and_c_projects

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: How to gain quality in software (and C++) projects Proposer: Nico Josuttis Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description:

howard_hinnant

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Lead author of several C++11 features including: move semantics, unique_ptr, , and . Coming in C++14: . Homepage is (never seem to have time to make it look pretty). Lead author on two open source projects:

howto_the_brain

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: HOWTO - The Brain Proposer: Ian Bruntlett Type: Presentation Duration: 45 mins Description: This is a talk to give people a better idea on how to maintain their mental health. It also deals with varying degrees of mental ill-health and how a sensible life style can either prevent or mitigate mental ill-health. It also explains how to get the most from your brain (essential for a software developer) and how to improve your brain as well.

hubert_matthews

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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 rowi…

i_broke_the_wip_limit_twice_and_i_m_still_on_the_team

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: I Broke the WIP Limit Twice, and I'm Still on the Team! Proposer: Zsolt Fabok Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Hi, my name is Zsolt, I broke the WIP limit several times, I'm still on the team and I'm happy about it. Most probably you've had a similar experience (except maybe you weren't happy at all) when you first started to work in a team that got hit by the Kanban method introduced by one of your fellow teammates. At first, it is hard to fol…

ian_bruntlett

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Ian is a software developer. He has done search engines for public libraries and the National Inter-Library Loan system. Due to illness Ian now works as a volunteer for Contact Morpeth, a mental health centre and has become a bit of an expert on mental health himself. He has a blog about schizophrenia and other experiences. He has a small website with some of his IT or RPG scribbles.

if_the_cap_fits_-_the_apache_cassandra_database

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: If the CAP fits - The Apache Cassandra Database Proposer: Gavin Heavyside Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Apache Cassandra () is one of the world's most popular open-source distributed databases. Originally created by Facebook to power their Inbox Search, it was open-sourced in 2008, became a top-level Apache project in 2010, and is now used by companies all over the world including household names like Spotify an…

immutabilty_ftw

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Immutability FTW! Proposer: Kevlin Henney Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: “When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change” observed Lucius Cary, four centuries ago. He could well have been talking about program state (had such a concept existed). We have it by the bucket - by the megabucket, gigabucket and terabucket - and most code, designs and programming languages assume that program state is something that is changeable.…

implications_of_conway_s_law

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Implications of Conway's Law Proposer: Rachel Davies Proposer: Michael Feathers Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: Conway's Law is a simple statement - Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. Come to this workshop to reflect on the implications of Conway's Law for software construction and how we should organise software developers wo…

insecure_coding_in_c

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Insecure coding in C Proposer: Olve Maudal Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: In this talk we will explore ways to write insecure code in C that can be exploited by hacking. We will then use tools to study our insecure programs and give concrete demonstration of concepts such as: stack smashing, shellcode, arc injection, return-oriented programming and more.

introduction_to_bdd_with_cucumber-jvm

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Introduction to BDD with Cucumber-JVM Proposer: Seb Rose Type: Pre Conference Workshop Duration: 360 mins Description: This workshop covers both the theory and the practice of BDD. Starting with a simple product idea, we will work in teams to develop and refine the stories that we need to implement. During this part of the day, we examine the theory behind BDD and how to fit it into your own agile process. Once we have a few prioritized user stories, we th…

it_s_time_to_light_the_lights

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: It's Time to Light The Lights Proposer: Duncan McGregor Proposer: Richard Care Type: Preconference Tutorial Duration: 360 mins Description: Working on embedded systems, we noticed that slow deployments and limited debugging facilities affected the way that we develop code. Unit tests are critical, but so are functional tests of the target architecture. Some code just can't run on development PCs, so that mocks and stubs play a large role, but in the end th…

ivan_stepaniuk

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Ivan Stepaniuk is an agile software developer with a strong background in electronics that has been writing software for more than fifteen years in a wide variety of languages and platforms, from Assembler to JavaScript and from 8 bit micro-controllers to large enterprise web applications.

james_grenning

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: James Grenning trains, coaches and consults worldwide. His mission is to bring modern technical and management practices to embedded development teams. He is the author of Test-Driven Development for Embedded C (). He is a co-author of CppUTest, a popular unit test harness for embedded C and C++. He invented Planning Poker, an estimation technique used around the world, and participated in the creation of the Manifesto for Agi…

james_richardson

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Email: james@time4tea.net Looking for Smoking Guns in a Haystack - using a graph database for JVM heap analysis Location: London

jason_mcguiness

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Since graduating from the University of Bristol, Jason has worked for a number of well known international companies as a technical architect/software developer and has also worked as a technical director in a few front-office facing roles within the City. Amongst various breaks from the rigours of professional work, he undertook a period of research on the topic of ’The Challenges of Writing Software for Massively Parallel Architectures’ (

java_is_dead_long_live_scala_kotlin_ceylon_etc

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Java is Dead, Long Live Scala, Kotlin, Ceylon, etc Proposer: Russel Winder Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Java 8, a huge revolution is Java, is due 2014 Q2. But is it too little, too late? Scala, Kotlin and Ceylon are statically typed languages designed as replacements for Java (*). Instead of trying to force a 1990s stripped down C++ to be a modern programming language, they start from scratch with only the JVM and the Java Platform as f…

jeff_foster

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Jeff is head of Software Engineering at Red Gate. Prior to working at Red Gate he's worked on a diverse range of projects from a recognizing people by the way they walk, writing a Java IDE, stitching together satellite images and trying to optimize the fuel mix inside of a furnace. He still enjoys writing code, particularly a bit of functional programming with Haskell. As head of Software Engineering at Red Gate, his focus is on connecting the dots and building a …

jim_hague

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Currently development lead for several mission-critical applications for Czech Air Traffic Control, Jim would like to be able to spend more time coding. Previously he has coded (and the rest) at companies large and small, as well as contributing to the odd open source project.

john_lakos

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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 framewo…

jon_skeet

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Jon Skeet is a Java developer for Google in London, but he plays with C# (somewhat obsessively) in his free time. He loves writing and talking about C#, and the third edition of “C# in Depth” was published in September 2013. Writing less formally, Jon spends a lot of time on Stack Overflow - where

jonathan_wakely

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Jonathan Wakely works as a maintainer of GCC's implementation of the C++ standard library and is a member of the C++ standards committee. Email: accu@kayari.org There Ain't No Such Thing As A Universal Reference The C++14 Standard Library JJ: these are 2×45 minute talks which Jonathan says he could do as a single 90 minute talk

jooq_-_get_back_in_control_of_your_sql

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title:jOOQ - Get Back in Control of Your SQL Proposer: Lukas Eder Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: SQL is a powerful and highly expressive language for queries against relational databases. SQL is established, standardised and hardly challenged by alternative querying languages. Nonetheless, in the Java ecosystem, there had been few relevant steps forward since JDBC to better integrate SQL into Java. All attention was given to object-relational mapp…

jos_van_eijndhoven

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Jos van Eijndhoven is co-founder and CTO of Vector Fabrics, a Dutch high-tech startup that focusses on tools and performance optimizations for C/C++ applications. Before launching Vector Fabrics he was principle architect at NXP Semiconductors research, active in the domain of multi core chip architecture, compilers, and mapping of media-processing applications. In NXP and Philips he participated in the corporate patent portfolio management. Before that, he was as…

just_enough_haskell_to_be_dangerous

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Just Enough Haskell to be dangerous Proposer: Jeff Foster Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: In this workshop, we'll introduce Haskell with no prior knowledge assumed. We'll start by learning just enough syntax to be dangerous and then we'll jump straight into solving some problems in a functional style!

jutta_eckstein

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Jutta Eckstein, a partner of IT communication, is an independent consultant and trainer from Braunschweig, Germany. Her know-how in agile processes is based on over ten years experience in developing object-oriented applications. She has helped many teams and organizations all over the world to make the transition to an agile approach. She has a unique experience in applying agile processes within medium-sized to large mission-critical projects. This is also the t…

kanban_for_startups

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Kanban for Startups Proposer: Zsolt Fabok Type: Presentation Duration: 45 mins Description: A good thing about startups is that they don't want a classic organisational change. They want speed. They want to release faster. One can argue that they don't need the Kanban method because it is an evolutionary change for technology businesses, and if a business, such as a startup, doesn't need change, it doesn't need the Kanban method either.

kevlin_henney

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know book and site. He lives in Bri…

klaus_kreft

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Klaus Kreft works as a consultant and performance experts. His main field of interest are complex systems with high performance requirements. He is a speaker at conferenc in Germany, among them JAX. Together they are authors of several books and a series of articles in the German JavaMagazin.

klaus_marquardt

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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

lambdas_and_streams_in_java_8_presentation

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Lambdas and Streams in Java 8 Proposer: Angelika Langer Proposer: Klaus Kreft Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Java 8 comes with several new language features. First, there is support for expressing anonymous functions: Java 8 has lambda expressions and method/constructor references for this purpose. Second, interface methods can have an implementation in Java 8: there are default methods and static methods in interfaces in addition to the…

lambdas_and_streams_in_java_8_workshop

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Lambdas and Streams in Java 8 Proposer: Angelika Langer Proposer: Klaus Kreft Type: Preconference workshop Duration: 360 mins Description: In this workshop we explore new language features in Java 8 (i.e., lambda expressions, method / constructor references, static and default interface methods) and the overhauled collection framework in JDK 8 (i.e., streams, collectors and functional interfaces). Attendants are encouraged to bring their notebooks. We will…

large-scale_c_-_advanced_levelization_techniques

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Large-Scale C++ - Advanced Levelization Techniques Proposer: John Lakos Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Developing a large-scale software system in C++ requires more than just a sound understanding of the logical design issues covered in most books on C++ programming. To be successful, one also needs a grasp of physical design concepts that, while closely tied to the technical aspects of development, include a dimension with which even exp…

lars_gullik

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Lars Gullik Bjønnes joined Cisco in 2005 where he is involved in developing software for advanced video-conferencing technology and solutions. He has a strong passion for C++, maintainability, code cleanliness, build systems and continuous integration. Lars has also been the project maintainer and a major contributor to the open source project LyX.

leon_hewitt

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Dr Leon Hewitt is an avid disciple of the good book (Kent Beck's XP Explained), both first and second editions, and a skilful teacher of the craft of software. With over a decade of experience Leon has nearly seen it all (it being the entire Dr Who back catalogue).

lets_talk_about_sets

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Let's talk about sets Proposer: Thomas Guest Type: Case Study Duration: 45 mins Description: This session starts with a bug report. Subsequent investigations take us back through the history of a codebase, and of C++ itself, uncovering some wrong turns and awkward truths. The bug is resolved, fixed, but questions remain.

lies_damn_lies_and_estimates

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Lies, damn lies, and estimates Proposer: Seb Rose Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Are estimates an essential part of project planning and delivery or a waste of everybody's time? As is so often the case the answer is neither and both. In this session we discover that there is more than one kind of estimate and examine how they are typically used in an agile context.

long_life_software

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Long Life Software Proposer: Mike Long Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Civil engineers build structures to last. Aerospace engineers build airplanes for the long haul. Automotive engineers build cars to last. How about software engineers?

looking_for_smoking_guns_in_a_haystack_-_using_a_graph_database_for_jvm_heap_analysis

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Looking for Smoking Guns in a Haystack - using a graph database for JVM heap analysis Proposer: Nat Pryce Proposer: James Richardson Type: Experience Report Duration: 90 mins Description: Late in the development of a major new feature for one of the most widely used consumer products in the UK we encountered potentially show-stopping memory fragmentation issues. Our platform uses a proprietary embedded JVM that has limited diagnostic tooling. We therefore …

lukas_eder

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: I’m an enthusiast Java and SQL developer, having spent most of his professional life around Oracle flagship products, for instance in my recent job in the E-Banking field. I feel that the two most popular languages are not yet integrated well enough, which is why I’m pushing jOOQ to become the next standard for close SQL to Java integration.

machine_learning_for_fun_and_profit

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Machine Learning for Fun and Profit Proposer: Burkhard Kloss Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Machine learning is a popular field at the moment, and there are a plethora of techniques and a bewildering array of free tools and libraries that are becoming available.

marina_de_vos

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Marina de Vos is a senior lecturer in the department of Computer Science at the University of Bath. Her main research area is themed “Knowledge Representation and Reasoning”. In other words she tries to make programs reasoning

marshall_clow

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Marshall has been programming professionally since 1981. He has been a contributor to Boost for 10 years, and to LLVM/clang for 4. He is a member of the C++ standards committee, and chairs the “Ranges” study group. He works for Qualcomm in their Open Source Portal.

martin_waplington

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Martin is a contract programmers working in the finance sector. He is fed up of trying to understand and refactor bad code bases by hand. Email: waplington@gmail.com Generative C++ Visualizing Code Generative C++ Scripting Generative C++ Hosting Location: London

matchbox_scalable_test_system

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Matchbox Scalable Test System Proposer: Lars Gullik Type: Presentation Duration: 45 mins Description: Matchbox is our home grown continuous integration system used for most of Cisco's TelePresence products. It enables hundreds of developers to successfully maintain and develop a large C and C++ codebase supporting advanced embedded products running on a wide range of hardware platforms. This talk will focus on the considerations and design choices that has …

meat_machines_-_psychology_and_programming

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Meat Machines - Psychology and Programming Proposer: Mike Long Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Why does bad code happen to good people? How does an industry full of introverts nonetheless succeed in a high-communication industry? Why do we fall into the same logical traps over and over? Why is everything so hard to change?

mens_sana_in_corpore_sano_a_healthy_mind_in_a_healthy_body

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body) Proposer: Phil Nash Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Our minds and bodies do not exist in isolation. Even the Romans knew that. What the Romans didn't know was how our modern lifestyles - especially in sendatry professions such as ours - would throw the balance between them into crisis!

methodology_patterns_workshop

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title:Methodology Patterns Workshop Proposer: Giovanni Asproni Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: I've recently started to work on the idea of 'Methodology Patterns' as an alternative way for teams to come up with a methodology fit for their needs - a one methodology per project as proposed by Alistair Cockburn. The idea is to describe all the practices (all meaning technical like TDD, but also managerial, leadership, etc.) we use every day as patterns …

michael_feathers

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Michael Feathers is an independent consultant. Prior to that, he was a member of the technical staff at Groupon and Chief Scientist of Obtiva. Over the past 15 years he has consulted with hundreds of organizations, helping them with general software design issues, process change, and code revitalization. Michael is also the author of the book

michael_wong

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Michael Wong is the CEO of the OpenMP Corporation, a consortium of 26 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 Transactional Memory group. He is the co-author of a number of C++/OpenMP/TM features and patents. He is the past C++ team lead to IBM's XL C++ compiler, C compiler and has been designing C++ compil…

mike_long

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Mike Long is a software architect currently working on improving development practices in large- scale software development teams, based in Beijing, China. His previous experiences working with embedded systems development in Norway and England have instilled a great passion for test driven development, code craft, and avoiding oscilloscope debugging as much as humanly possible.

mock_that_legacy_c_-_hands-on

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Mock that Legacy C - Hands on Proposer: James Grenning Type: Preconference Workshop Duration: 360 mins Description: You have test-driven in other languages but need to sharpen your skills for C or C++. In this session we'll test-drive code using CppUTest and CppUMock. You'll also take the legacy C challenge and use all the tools of the trade to get this code, never meant to be unit tested, into CppUTest. To effectively mock and fake in C and C++ you need …

mutation_testing_-_why_should_you_care

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Mutation testing - Why should you care? Proposer: Seb Rose Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Do you know how good your tests are? Mutation testing can tell you. Unlike test coverage metrics (which only tell us how much of your application was executed, not whether the tests were any use) mutation testing lets us say something concrete about the quality of your test suite.

mutation_testing_and_pit

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Mutation Testing and PIT Proposer: Filip van Laenen Proposer: Henry Coles Type: Tutorial/Case-Study Duration: 90 mins Description: Mutation testing is nothing new, but remarkably few programmers are familiar with the technique, and very few real world projects have ever used it. That's a pity, because mutation testing is a very powerful tool. Not only will it improve the quality of your code dramatically, it will also make you reflect more over your unit …

nat_pryce

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Nat Pryce is a co-author of Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests. An early adopter of XP, he has written or contributed to several open source libraries and tools that support TDD and was one of the founding organizers of the London XP Day conference. He has worked as a programmer, architect, trainer, and consultant in a variety of industries, including sports reportage, marketing communications, retail, media, telecoms and finance, and has delivered b…

natural_laws_in_software_development

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Natural laws in Software Development Proposer: Claudius Link Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: This is an opinionated talk to spur discussions. Many areas against which software development is commonly compared to, like architecture and engineering disciplines, are based on natural laws. The talk looks at properties of natural laws and how they were utilized in the last thousand years of history and as well look at their limitations. Together…

nico_josuttis

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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

no_estimates_and_probabilistic_planning

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: No estimates and probabilistic planning Proposer: Ed Sykes Type: Workshop with presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: This year has seen the rise of the noestimates movement. This workshop will explain the arguments for and against noestimates and will tie it into the probabilistic planning techniques that are emerging from the kanban community.

noda_time_-_the_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_-_experiences_of_an_open_source_project

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Noda time - the good the bad and the ugly - experiences of an open source project Proposer: Jon Skeet Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description:

none_of_the_ideas_presented_here_are_new_-_they_are_just_forgotten_from_time_to_time

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: None of the ideas presented here are new - they are just forgotten from time to time Proposer: Giovanni Asproni Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: The title is a quote from Alan Perlis' Turing Award Lecture. The idea is to talk about things in sw development that we keep rediscovering all the time, often because we forget our past, but also because we don't seem to look for inspiration in the right places - a case in point are people re-discoveri…

olve_maudal

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Olve Maudal works for Cisco Systems where he is involved in developing collaboration technology, in particular video conferencing products and telepresence solutions. He loves to write code, but he is just as interested in how software is developed as what it actually does. Main interests are C, C++, TDD, secure coding, software architecture. Olve is based in Oslo.

openmp_4.0_a_new_standard_in_high_level_parallelism

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: OpenMP 4.0 A New Standard in High Level Parallelism Proposer: Michael Wong Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: The OpenMP 4.0 API supports the programming of accelerators, SIMD programming, and better optimization using thread affinity

order_notation_in_practice

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Order Notation in Practice Proposer: Roger Orr Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Many of us are familiar with the “Big O” order notation for giving an idea of the complexity of algorithms; for example the C++ std::sort function is described as

parallel_processing_for_accelerated_alm_and_ci_-_better_faster_and_more_cost-effective_software_development

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title:Parallel Processing for Accelerated ALM and CI - Better, Faster and More Cost-effective Software Development Proposer: Dori Exterman Type: Tutorial Duration: 45 mins Description: Organizations are trying to automate and streamline the software building process for a competitive edge. The process of releasing new software can be complex and lengthy. A rapid feedback cycle that notifies whether the latest build of the software passed successfully or not can of…

parallelism_beyond_c_14

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Parallelism beyond C++14 Proposer: Detlef Vollmann Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Parallelism and multi-threading are two of the main topics for the next versions of C++ (beyond 2014). This talk will present the additions for concurrency support currently planned C++17 (and beyond) targeting mainly real parallelism (and not just multi-threading) and generally asynchronous programming models currently discussed in the C++ standardization co…

pattabi_raman

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Pattabi Raman is a physicist, who has made a special contribution in the development of new data mining algorithms and user-friendly software in nuclear spectroscopy. He performs trading in finance and tutoring in numerical subjects. He wrote a C++ book, entitled:

paul_grenyer

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Paul Grenyer is a software consultant, working for Naked Element Ltd, with over ten years experience of developing robust software solutions. He has worked for a range of companies from small startups to large investment banks and insurers.

performance_choices

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Performance Choices Proposer: Dietmar Kuhl Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: When programming there are always these small choices: write code one or another way. When the required behavior can be achieved in different ways we need to choose and many criteria are rather subjective. Choosing the fastest approach is a relatively obvious and objective solution which other choices can, at least, be measured against. The presentation discusses a numb…

pete_goodliffe

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: No shoes. Nail varnish. No hair. Maybe a hat. Email: pete@goodliffe.net Words in Code Location: Cambridge, England

peter_sommerlad

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Prof. Peter Sommerlad is director of IFS Institute for Software at FHO/HSR Rapperswil, Switzerland. Peter is co-author of the books POSA Vol.1 and Security Patterns and contributed to “97 things every programmer should know”. 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. To reach that goal his team and students create IDE tooling based on…

phil_nash

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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.

polymorphic_allocators_for_fundamental_libraries

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Polymorphic Allocators for Fundamental Libraries Proposer: Alisdair Meredith Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: One of the key resources in any C++ program is memory, as every object must, if nothing else, occupy some memory itself. Unsurprisingly, this has lead to many attempt to find

portia_tung

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Portia Tung is a consultant-coach, storyteller, and games maker who combines business strategies with play to bring about positive organisational change. Portia is an international speaker, and the creator of concepts such as Playmaking and

processing_decimal_values

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Processing Decimal Values Proposer: Dietmar Kuhl Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: In many business contexts it is necessary to process decimal values. C and C++ don't have any built-in support for processing fractional decimal values, leading developers into using binary floating points instead. Although binary floating points can work sufficiently well, they cannot represent fractional decimal values exactly and even simple computations introd…

programming_to_d_max

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Programming To D Max Proposer: Chuck Allison Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: D is a modern programming language used all over the world for gaming, web development, and systems programming. It combines the best features of C++, Java, C#, Python. It is a multi-paradigm language that supports garbage collection and yet compiles to native code. This is soup-to-nuts tutorial illustrating robust type inference, compile-time function evaluation, uni…

python_the_language_all_programmers_should_know

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Python, the Language All Programmers Should Know Proposer: Russel Winder Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Bioinformatics, particle physics, astronomy, much of any and all data sciences, and many others, have embraced a workflow: C++ and Fortran for the computation, Python for the analysis and visualization. In many places, e.g. finance institutions, much of the actual computation is now happening in Python instead of C#, Java, C++, Excel.

rachel_davies

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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.

random_number_generation_in_c_-_present_and_potential_future

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Random number generation in C++ - present and potential future Proposer: Pattabi Raman Type: Tutorial Duration: 45 mins Description: Random numbers are numbers that appear in random. They are one of the fundamental tools in numerous numerical works such as simulating graphics, extrapolating financial data, smoothing digitalisation and forecasting the weather. Initially random numbers were generated by tossing coins, throwing dice and spinning roulette whee…

range_and_elevation_-_c_in_a_modern_world

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Range and Elevation - C++ in a modern world Proposer: Steve Love Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: As programmers we spend a lot of time and effort dealing with collections of ... stuff. Words, numbers, files, Employees, you name it, we have collections of it. C++ provides some pretty sophisticated tools for managing collections, but they are, in truth, pretty low-level, and not altogether intuitive. Other languages seem to do better in this reg…

recruitment_-_how_to_find_a_team_you_like

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Recruitment - how to find a team you like Proposer: Burkhard Kloss Type: panel discussion Duration: 45 mins Description: Recruitment is probably one of the most important aspects of software development - with the right team, anything is possible. It's certainly a topic with strongly held opinions, as repeated discussions on accu-general suggest - but I think it's not been examined as thoroughly as possible. I'd like to bring together a panel of three or …

rehabilitating_allocators_in_c_11_14

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Rehabilitating Allocators in C++11/14 Proposer: Alisdair Meredith Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: The original C++ standard allowed containers to be parameterized on allocators, without nailing down what that would mean in practice. The result was a dark corner of the standard that is widely ignored.

requirements_engineering

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title:Requirements Engineering Proposer: Tom Gilb Type: pre-conference tutorial Duration: 360 mins Description: • Requirements Engineering: The use of a quantified Planning Language to articulate all quality, and other performance variable, requirements - as a basis for Architecture Engineering and Quantified Agile Project Management (Evo)

richard_care

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: I've been programming for way too long in languages ranging from PDP-11 Macro Assembler to Scala. Much of my work has been linked to industrial monitoring and control, for example nuclear fuel re-processing, automotive robotic paint spraying and undersea monitoring. More prosaically most of my recent work has been in Java/C/C++

robert_martin

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Robert Martin (Uncle Bob) (@unclebobmartin) has been a programmer since 1970. He is the Master Craftsman at 8th Light inc, an acclaimed speaker at conferences worldwide, and the author of many books including: The Clean Coder, Clean Code, Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices, and UML for Java Programmers. He is a prolific writer and has published hundreds of articles, papers, and blogs. He served as the Editor-in-chief of the C++ Repor…

roger_orr

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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.

russel_winder

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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, and Gant. Also Gradle, Ceylon, Kotlin. And Python-CSP.

say_what_you_want_not_how_you_want_it_done_-_logic_programming_with_answer_sets

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Say what you want not how you want it done - logic programming with answer sets Proposer: Marina De Vos Proposer: Willem van den Ende Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: If you've ever struggled with programming a solution for a problem that had easy to describe constraints, but is difficult to implement, this session may be for you. Good programmers are lazy - so why waste your time implementing a solution when the computer can do it for you…

seb_rose

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Seb Rose is an independent software developer, trainer and consultant based in the UK. He specialises in working with teams adopting and refining their agile practices, with a particular focus on automated testing. He first worked as a programmer in 1980 writing applications for estate agents and solicitors in compiled BASIC on an Apple II. He has worked with many mainstream technologies since then, for many well-known companies, such as Amazon, IBM, NCR, HBOS, …

so_long_and_thanks_for_all_the_tests

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: So long and thanks for all the tests. Proposer: seb_rose Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: TDD has long been recommended by agile practitioners, but the community still argues about how to go about it. Inside-out or outside-in? Mockist or classical? Through a component's public

social_sciences_make_a_difference

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Social Sciences Make a Difference Proposer: Zsolt Fabok Type: Presentation Duration: 45 mins Description: The pure intention of this talk is to introduce interesting phenomena and fascinating experiments from the social sciences to the audience. These experiments have been around for a while, but we rarely apply their findings in our life. The talk won't just explain a phenomenon like the 'Learned Helplessness' or an experiment like the 'Hawthorne experimen…

software_craftsmanship_in_real_life

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Software craftsmanship in real life Proposer: Alpar Gabos Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: The software industry is young, and unfortunately its lacking at least one component of a mature industry: the craftsmanship. We have a lot of buggy and useless software in the world. There were many catastrophes thanks to the characteristics of our working environment (high pressure with tight deadlines). Don't you think it is time to move the softwa…

software_imaginations

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Software Imaginations Proposer: Charles Tolman Type: Presentation + Discussion Duration: 90 mins Description: Following on from my talk at ACCU last year on Phenomenology and Software Development, I shall give an initial 30-45 minute talk exploring some existing philosophical ideas about imagination, followed by a

software_quality_dashboard_for_agile_teams

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Software Quality Dashboard for Agile Teams Proposer: Alexander Bogush Type: Case-Study Duration: 45 mins Description: It is common knowledge that prevention is better than cure; built-in quality and good design is more efficient than thorough regression testing and bug fixing at later stages of development cycle. Yet it is not uncommon to see complex code that has gone well beyond the point of no return, when it's no longer feasible to support any furthe…

solid_design_for_c

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: SOLID Design for C Proposer: James Grenning Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: C does not have to be spaghetti code. It can be modular and flexible if you apply the SOLID design principles. In this tutorial, we look at applying Single Responsibility, Open-Closed, Liskov Substitution, Interface Segregation and Dependency Inversion principles to C. SOLID gives good guidance on modularity and coupling; these principles are not just for programmers…

something_from_dan_north

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Something from Dan North Proposer: Dan North Type: keynote Duration: 60 mins Description: To follow

something_from_howard_hinnant

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Something from Howard Hinnant Proposer: Howard Hinnant Type: keynote Duration: 60 mins Description: To follow

spock_the_test

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Spock The Test Proposer: Russel Winder Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: In the Java world many people think of JUnit as the de fact standard (unit) test framework. They are the past, TestNG is the real Java test framework. And that is history, Spock is the (Groovy-based) test framework for all Java (and Groovy) developments. TDD is covered. Unit, integration, system testing is covered. Even BDD styles are covered. So who need Cucumber etc…

steve_freeman

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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 2014-speakers 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.

sven_rosvall

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Sven has a long career in many markets and technologies. He has a keen interest in quality and passionate about Agile practices. Email: sven@rosvall.ie Unit Testing Beyond Mock Objects Location: Dublin

switching_from_c_11_to_c_14_in_one_day

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Switching from C++11 to C++14 in one day Proposer: Nico Josuttis Type: Preconference Workshop Duration: 360 mins Description:

switching_to_c_11_and_c_14_in_one_day

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Switching to C++11 and C++14 in one day Proposer: Nico Josuttis Type: Preconference Workshop Duration: 360 mins Description: C++11 is standardized and C++14 is around the corner. This raises the question for existing C++ projects and their programmers whether and when to switch to the new language and its library. This tutorial tries to answer that question in one day. It gives a brief overview about the new key features of the new C++ (including the key el…

test_driven_development_in_c_c_hands-on

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Test Driven Development in C/C++ Hands-on Proposer: James Grenning Type: Preconference Workshop Duration: 360 mins Description: Test-Driven Development is an important design and problem solving technique that helps software developers improve product quality and the quality of their life. How? By getting your code to do what you think it needs to do and by giving you warning when your design is starting to deteriorate.

the_art_of_learning_and_mentoring

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: The Art of Learning and Mentoring Proposer: Jutta Eckstein Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Similarly to design patterns, pedagogical patterns present solutions to recurring problems in a given context. The wider context for the pedagogical patterns is teaching and learning, especially of technical subjects.

the_biggest_mistakes_in_the_c_11_library

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: The biggest mistakes in the C++11 library Proposer: Nico Josuttis Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: What we found out to be broken in C++11

the_c_14_standard_library

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: The C++14 Standard Library Proposer: Jonathan Wakely Type: Tutorial Duration: 45 mins Description: This year will see the publication of a new C++ standard. The changes in the library are mostly small, incremental improvements to existing components, but they make a big difference to usability and convenience for anyone using C++11.

the_continuing_future_of_c_concurrency

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: The continuing future of C++ concurrency Proposer: Anthony Williams Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: An overview at the additions to the Standard C++ concurrency libraries proposed for the C++ concurrency TS and C++17, including: continuations, executors, and parallel algorithms, as well as std::shared_mutex from C++14

the_emperor_s_new_clothes_-_meaningful_interactions_in_stressful_situations

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: The Emperor's New Clothes - Meaningful Interactions in Stressful Situations Proposer: Portia Tung Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: See the Emperor in all his glory! Which role do you play? We all interact with different types of characters in our daily lives which may lead to stressful situations. Together, we can learn how to communicate more effectively with others, especially at times of stress, by transforming our behaviour from incongruenc…

the_evolution_of_good_code

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: The Evolution of Good Code Proposer: Arjan van Leeuwen Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: What do we think of as good code, and how has our perception of good code changed from the early days of programming to the exciting times we live in now? Did the emergence of new programming languages, the rise of functional programming and the need for parallelism change our general opinion? What do we mean when we say code is

there_ain_t_no_such_thing_as_a_universal_reference

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Universal Reference Proposer: Jonathan Wakely Type: Tutorial Duration: 45 mins Description: Scott Meyers coined the term “universal reference” to describe a feature of templates in C++11, but the C++ standard only talks about lvalue references and rvalue references. This session will explain what is meant by

thomas_guest

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Thomas Guest is an experienced and enthusiastic programmer. He likes grappling with algorithms and data structures but spends most of his time fretting over file permissions and trying to remember his various user name and password credentials. His website is

tom_gilb

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

Back to 2014-speakers 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 consult…

tore_martin_hagen

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Embedded Software Architect at WesternGeco. He has more then 15 years experience in the embedded SW industry where he has worked with telecommunication and seismic systems. Email: thagen@slb.com hash define hell in multi-platform embedded programming Location: Oslo, Norway

tribal_leadership_create_the_place_where_you_long_to_belong

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Tribal Leadership - Create the place where you long to belong Proposer: Portia Tung Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: Do you dream that one day all the office politics will be replaced by a common and worthwhile cause? Do you wish to be part of a winning team working in a place where you long to belong?

unit_testing_beyond_mock_objects

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Unit Testing Beyond Mock Objects Proposer: Sven Rosvall Type: Tutorial Duration: 45 mins Description: Unit testing is a well-established practice today. Mocking frameworks are plentiful and available for almost every programming language. We have learned to design our system to make the most of unit testing. We have invented techniques to test our code even when it interacts with the runtime environment and third party libraries that are not designed for mo…

user_stories_don_t_help_users_-_introducing_persona_stories

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: User Stories Don't Help - Introducing Persona Stories Proposer: william_hudson Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: This workshop is based on an article that will appear in the ACM's Interactions magazine, Nov-Dec 2013 and on workshops run by William over several years that address the integration of user-centred design with Agile approaches to software development. A key issue in this integration is the historical focus on roles in user requiremen…

version_control_-_patterns_and_practices

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Version Control - Patterns and Practices Proposer: Chris Oldwood Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: After the text editor and programming language the next most valuable, hotly debated and often poorly used tool is probably the version control system. Some treat it as nothing more than an ad-hoc backup of their source code whilst others endeavour to create a narrative that describes the evolution of their entire software product from inception…

we_make_hardware_a_story_of_introducing_an_agile_ecosystem_in_embedded_software_development

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: We make Hardware! - A story of Introducing an Agile Ecosystem in Embedded Software Development Proposer: Geert Van Meerbergen Type: Case-Study Duration: 90 mins Description: Most embedded system projects today try to achieve stability by freezing requirements, hardware/software architectures and schedules in the initial phase of the project. This is remarkable, as nowadays embedded markets are highly volatile, and well known to make unexpected turns. Reason…

webevent_horizon

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: WebEvent Horizon Proposer: Aleksandar Fabijanic Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: The tutorial will demonstrate and explain in detail a distributed event dispatching notification mechanism, enabling seamless publish/subscribe, many-to-many messaging between web pages, back-end processes and entities within the process. The session is written in standard C++11, Javascript and HTML5, utilizing a combination of platform-independent events with lam…

what_do_developers_really_need

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: What Do Developers Really Need? Proposer: Rachel Davies Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: Come to this workshop to explore what factors developers need in their process and environment to make their time at work enjoyable and productive. We'll be doing group exercise to build a 'programmer hierarchy of needs' based on your own experiences. We'll then use this to focus discussion around what improvements typically have most beneficial impact an…

what_programmer_s_want

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: What Programmers Want Proposer: Gail Ollis Type: Workshop and presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: If you have ever asked yourself “Why did they do THAT!?” when wrestling with a fellow programmer's work, you are the intended audience for this session.

what_wrong_with_c_-_a_rant_from_the_trenches

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: What wrong with C++ - A rant from the trenches Proposer: Claudius Link Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: C++ modern, effective, multi paradigm programming language available on any platform. It is well suited for system, embedded, high performance, programming It is standardized, widely supported, offers a powerful library and supports abstractions. With C++11 there has be a recent overhaul further extending the power . So what can possibly be w…

where_is_c_headed

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Where is C++ headed? Proposer: Hubert Matthews Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: How is C++ is different to other languages and how does that affect the way we write and think about programs? C++11 adds a host of new language ideas that build on these differences and C++14 extends things yet further. Key questions to explore are: how do these new features change how we think about C++? What standard design idioms and techniques should we …

why_agile_doesn_t_scale_and_what_you_can_do_about_it

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Why Agile doesn't scale (and what you can do about it) Proposer: Dan North Type: keynote Duration: 60 mins Description: Agile doesn't scale. There, I said it. Actually people have been telling me that for over ten years, and I've just refused to believe them, but they were right. Does that mean you can't deliver large-scale programmes using agile methods? Not at all. But to scale you need something else, something substantively different, something the Agil…

willem_van_den_ende

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Willem van den Ende works as an independent software developer, trainer and consultant. He focuses on systemic thinking and effective development practices inspired by eXtreme Programming, agile and lean. He is co-founder of xp days benelux and agile open, and was programme chair of SPA and board member of the agile alliance. He presents at a software conference somewhere about once a month. He is based in Bath and the Netherlands. He works through

william_hudson

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: William Hudson has been building interactive systems for over 40 years, focussing on user-centred design for the past 20. He has written over 30 publications and is the creator of the Guerrilla UCD series of webinars (www.guerrillaucd.com). William is the founder and principal of Syntagm Ltd, a small Oxfordshire consultancy specializing in user-centred design and training.

wojciech_seliga

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Wojciech Seliga is a seasoned software developer and entrepreneur. He started coding 30 years ago when he was a kid and since then has witnessed various waves, hypes and fashions in our industry. For almost 10 years he has been responsible for fostering agile and craftsmanship practices in the development and business alike, managing and staffing software projects and mentoring. Currently he runs a company he co-founded - Spartez - which partners with Atlassian on d…

words_in_code

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Words in Code Proposer: Pete Goodliffe Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: As software developers we do not just write code. We write many, many words too. We write documentation, comments, manuals, specifications, technical articles, wiki documentation, and more. Maybe even magazine articles and books.

yet_another_build_language_an_introduction_to_rake

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

Back to 2014-proposals Title: Yet another build language - An introduction to Rake Proposer: Claudius Link Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Building software evolved from simply compiling and linking files to a far more complex task - project automation. Today's builds generate, transform code, provide an reproducible and fast builds for multiple configurations, offering deterministic results while being flexible regarding changes and refactoring. They synchronize with the …

zsolt_fabok

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

Back to 2014-speakers Bio: Zsolt is a kaizen team member, a project manager, and a blogger. He has always been curious about software development processes and how to bring the best in them 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 five years mastering Kanban and helping large and small organizations to successfully adapt its principles. He is th…