wiki.accu.org - 2015

a_revolutionary_programming_pattern_that_will_clean_up_your_code_-_coroutines_in_c

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: A Revolutionary Programming Pattern that Will Clean up your Code: Coroutines in C++ Proposer: David Sackstein Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: In this talk, I will present a number of difficult problems that often result in convoluted state machines which are difficult to maintain and to test. Among these problems are complex syntax parsers and messaging protocol implementations.

accu

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: ACCU Proposer: Alan Lenton Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: This is by way of a request on behalf of the ACCU Committee, for the allocation of a 90 minute session, preferably on the Friday. Tentatively I would like to split it into two and have one session on discussing the suggestion put forward by then for the future of ACCU and one on writing for the ACCU magazines.

adi_shavit

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Adi Shavit is a computer vision consultant. He has been working on image and video processing systems for more than 15 years, specializing in real-time video analysis. Homepage: Location: Israel Email: adishavit@gmail.com

advanced_jenkins_and_ci

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Advanced Jenkins and CI Proposer: Mike Long Type: Workshop Duration: 360 mins Description: This course it the natural successor to the Introduction to Jenkins CI. It will build on the vocabulary and lab exercises from the the Fundamentals course. The course attendees will learn how to configure and utilize Jenkins to it's full potential as the foundation of the tool- stack that shall support the software development process.

advanced_programming_techniques

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Advanced programming techniques Proposer: Gil Zilberfeld Type: Tutorial Duration: 360 mins Description: ACCU is the coding conference, so this tutorial is about coding. This is an opportunity to learn about different ways to code, experience them, and hopefully taste enough so you can take it back to your office and start using them. We’ll explore different techniques: Starting from Kent Beck’s simple design principles, going through a bunch of code smell…

agile_documentation_with_asciidoctor

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Agile Documentation with Asciidoctor Proposer: Schalk Cronjé Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: In many cases documentation are a necessity, but many documentation initiatives that are decoupled from software can become hard to maintain. Traditional word-processing software are also not fit for purpose and the traditional stalwart of open-source, DocBook, is a difficult markup language to master. In the last number of years, Github has popularise…

alan_lenton

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Homepage: Location: UK Email: alan@ibgames.com ACCU

alex_voicu

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: I am a Software Engineer at Microsoft, where I work on the standard C++ library and the C++ AMP programming model. Before becoming a programmer in earnest, I spent a number of years doing academic research; in June 2014, I earned a Ph.D. in Economics. To this day, whenever I have the time, I still flip bits in anger, trying to solve a constrained optimization problem or to find a Nash equilibrium. Therefore, it is no surprise that I am a Luddite who still believes…

alisdair_meredith

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

Back to 2015-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.

alison_lloyd

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Alison has worked in a lot of different fields, including (but not limited to): embedded software, book editing and proof-reading, helicopter aviation, technical theatrical and music production, education, start-up wrangling, recreational diving, construction and building maintenance, web development, arts & crafts, and professional slacking. These days, she runs her own company providing (primarily) contract embedded software and helicopter piloting.

alisons_keynote

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: TBA Proposer: Alison Lloyd Type: Keynote Duration: 60 mins Description: description

all_unicorns_were_once_horses

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: All unicorns were once horses (and some were donkeys before that) Proposer: Mike Long Type: Presentation Duration: 15 mins Description: One of the most widely held beliefs about DevOps is that it applies “only for startups and unicorns

an_introduction_to_cross-platform_development_with_xamarin

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: An introduction to cross-platform development with Xamarin Proposer: Gill Cleeren Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Cross platform development is what many business consider as the holy grail. There have been many attempts over the years and all have their flaws. One of the major problems is that many solutions require learning a new language and skillset, while that is often – if not always – the most valuable asset.

an_introduction_to_unicode_in_c

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: An Introduction to Unicode in C++ Proposer: James McNellis Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: At first glance, text encoding and processing text appears to be a rather dull, mundane subject. But in modern software where we often need to handle text from different languages—and even different alphabets and character sets—text processing is anything but mundane. Some programming languages have nice, simple facilities that make most text processin…

anthony_williams

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Anthony is the author of C++ Concurrency in Action. As well as working on multithreading libraries, he also develops custom software for clients, and does training and consultancy. Despite frequent forays into other languages, he keeps coming back to C++. He is also a keen practitioner of TDD, and likes solving tricky problems.

applied_bdd_with_cucumber_cucumber-jvm_and_specflow

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Applied BDD with Cucumber, Cucumber-JVM and SpecFlow Proposer: Seb rose Type: Workshop Duration: 360 mins Description: It’s all very well reading books, but nothing beats actually getting practical experience. In this workshop, working in your choice of Java, C# or Ruby, we will drive out the implementation of a simple utility by specifying its behaviour in Cucumber. The tyrannical Product Owner will regularly change his mind, so we’ll need to keep our code…

applied_mvvm_in_windows_8_apps_-_not_your_typical_mvvm_session

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Applied MVVM in Windows 8 apps - not your typical MVVM session! Proposer: Gill Cleeren Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: For some time now, the community has been touting the MVVM pattern as being the best way to build XAML-based applications. By now, you should be convinced that MVVM is really the way to go. But then, you start building a real-world Windows 8 application and you encounter all kinds of challenges you hadn’t thought about bef…

archipelagos_in_git

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Archipelagos in Git Proposer: Matthew Dodkins Type: Presentation Duration: 15 mins Description: Island: Any piece of subcontinental land that is surrounded by water. Archipelago: Island chain, is a chain, cluster or collection of islands.

architectural_models_in_software

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Architectural Models in Software Proposer: Burkhard Kloss Type: Talk Duration: 90 mins Description: Architects build models before they build buildings - whether physical or artistic. Civil engineers build models before they scale up to real bridges. Chemical engineers build intermediate size models before they scale a reaction up to a production plants.

arjan_van_leeuwen

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Arjan van Leeuwen is a developer at browser maker Opera Software, where he mainly works with C++. Reliability and speed are things that matter every day, but code quality is the subject that can really get him riled up. Arjan has worked on Opera Software's flagship product, the Opera browser for computers, for over 7 years and has spoken regularly at ACCU conferences.

asynchronous_operations

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Asynchronous Operations Proposer: Dietmar Kuhl Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Doing many things concurrently is often necessary when dealing with high throughput systems. Using one thread fear each work item generally doesn't work too well as threads require substantial resources. On systems where work items frequently need to wait for completion of other operations, e.g., for input to bcome available scheduling operations asynchronously prov…

atomic_counters_or_a_lesson_on_performance_and_hardware_concurrency

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Atomic Counters or A Lesson on Performance and Hardware Concurrency Proposer: Detlef Vollmann Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: If atomic is good enough for you as a shared counter, then this session is not for you. However, if you're concerned about performance and scalability of parallel tasks that use shared objects, this session will explore the performance and scalability issues of atomic and possible solutions to overcome these iss…

austin_bingham

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

Back to 2015-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…

aviran_mordo

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Aviran is the head of back-end engineering at Wix. He has over 20 years of experience in the software industry and has filled many engineering roles and leading positions, from designing and building the US national Electronic Records Archives prototype to building search engine infrastructures. Aviran is a tech-savvy and a technology blogger, with vast knowledge of internet technologies, software development, team building, continuous delivery and a dev-centric cul…

axel_naumann

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Axel's brain was formatted with high energy physics, in Germany, in The Netherlands and in the US. At CERN, he is now developing ROOT <>, one of the tools used by virtually all high energy physicists around the world on a daily basis to store, statistically analyze and visualize petabytes of physics data. If he doesn't design or code software, he consults others with how to get better software (

axels_keynote

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: title Proposer: Axel Naumann Type: Keynote Duration: 60 mins Description: description

bdd_by_example

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: BDD By Example Proposer: Seb Rose Type: Workshop Duration: 360 mins Description: In this workshop, Seb will provide a practical introduction to using examples to specify software. You will learn to break down complex business requirements with your stakeholders, using examples in their own language, giving you the tools you need to explore their ideas before you even write any software.

becoming_a_better_programmer

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Becoming a Better Programmer Proposer: Pete Goodliffe Type: Keynote Duration: 60 mins Description: You've come this conference to improve your skills. You're here to learn: to learn new technologies, to learn new techniques, and to fuel your passion by meeting like-minded people.

behaviour_driven_development_bdd_with_cucumber_for_java

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Behaviour Driven Development, BDD, with Cucumber for Java Proposer: Thomas Sundberg Type: Presentation Duration: 45 mins Description: Behaviour Driven Development, BDD, is a great way to drive the development of a system based sole on the desired behaviour of a system. Using Cucumber for Java will allow us to express the desired behaviour with examples so a non developer can understand what will work and what is expected of the system.

bootstrapping_a_bdd_framework

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Bootstrapping a BDD framework Proposer: Raphael Meyer Type: Experience Report Duration: 15 mins Description: We all know from Kent Beck that the best way to learn a new language is to implement a test framework with TDD using the framework we're just implementing.

bootstrapping_boost.test_using_a_macro_dsl

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Bootstrapping Boost.Test using a macro DSL Proposer: Guy Bolton King Type: Case Study Duration: 15 mins Description: When we start writing a test, it's useful if the testing framework can initially help us in separating our Arrange, Action and Assert steps. This session will look at how we can extend the Boost unit test framework to provide both Spec- and Behaviour-style DSLs with a handful of simple macros and a logging extension.

braindump_-_how_to_leave_your_knowledge_when_leaving_your_job

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Braindump - How to leave your Knowledge when leaving your Job Proposer: Dirk Haun Type: Case Study Duration: 15 mins Description: There comes a time in every employee's career when they consider moving on. How can you make sure that the knowledge that you've accumulated in your job is not lost? This short talk offers some thoughts and concrete tips.

build_more_with_less_but_how

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Build More with Less… But How? Proposer: Dan Haywood Proposer: Jeroen van der Wal Type: Case Study Duration: 90 mins Description: The “build more” in this case means building line-of-business enterprise applications, the stuff that's the operational heart of your organisation. And the

building_a_community

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Building a community Proposer: Gill Cleeren Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: You want to be a user group lead? Thinking of starting your own user group? Awesome! But there are a number of things to think about before starting. Is your whole idea viable? Where do I get speakers and attendees? Should I create a legal entity? How do I finance the whole thing?

building_learning_into_team_life

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Building Learning into Team Life Proposer: Rachel Davies Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: When we make time and space for learning within teams, the products and services we build benefit from new ideas and innovative solutions. Team members also tend to find work more satisfying and enjoyable, which helps company recruitment and staff retention. Many us struggle when it comes to practical ways to encourage people to keep learning at work. It c…

building_your_first_android_app_using_xamarin

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Building your first Android app using Xamarin Proposer: Gill Cleeren Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Do you have a great knowledge about C#? Maybe you’ve already built a great mobile app on Windows Phone or Windows 8? Would you like to be able to use your knowledge to build an Android app without having to resort to other languages or IDEs? Well, now you can! With Xamarin.

burkhard_kloss

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

Back to 2015-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_-_easier_faster_safer

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: C++: Easier, Faster, Safer Proposer: Chandler Carruth Type: Keynote Duration: 60 mins Description: Over the past five years, the prospect of developing large software projects in C++ has changed dramatically. We have had not one but two new language standards. An amazing array of new features are available today that make the language more elegant, expressive, and easy to use. But that isn't the only change in the last five years. LLVM and Clang have helped …

c_a_functional_approach

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: C++ A Functional Approach Proposer: Juan Alday Proposer: Shayne Fletcher Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: We observe that there is much “buzz” in the C++ community surrounding the paradigm of functional programming. There is however, in our opinion, too little introductory information available at this time for the C++ programmer wishing to learn and apply the functional approach. We will introduce the working C++ programmer to some of t…

c_container_design

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: C++ Container Design Proposer: Lance Diduck Type: Case Study Duration: 90 mins Description: I will present two novel containers, zip_vector and assoc_vector, and walk through many of the design issues. The first, zip_vector, is API equivalent to std::vector,A=std::allocator< std::tuple

can_c_remain_relevant

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Can C++ Remain Relevant? Proposer: Russel Winder Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Although multicore is now the norm in hardware, programming languages such as C++ are still anchored to ancient hardware architectures. Chapel and X10 are investigating partitioned global address space (PGAS) creating a high-level way of handling parallelism. Go is investigating an analogue of communicating sequential processes (CSP) to achieve a modern approa…

chandler_carruth

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: C++ language platform lead at Google, late night LLVM hacker, all around trouble maker. Email: chandlerc@google.com C++ - Easier, Faster, Safer Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures

chandlers_keynote

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: title Proposer: Chandler Carruth Type: Keynote Duration: 60 mins Description: description

charles_bailey

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

Back to 2015-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.

chris_oldwood

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

Back to 2015-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.

chris_smith

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Chris is a project manager at Red Gate, a software house creating ingeniously simple database and software development tools. His job is to lead agile software development teams; helping them to regularly deliver valuable software for our users, solve their own problems and continuously improve how they work.

christopher_simons

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

Back to 2015-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…

claudius_link

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Claudius Link is leading a group developing security software. He is working on improving the development processes and practices and balancing technology with human factors. Previously he has worked in a variety of roles, ranging from administrator, supporter, tester, to developer and architect. And areas including scientific simulation, control systems, credit card processing, as well as medical devices. His interest include Open Source, software craftsmanship …

clean_coders_hate_what_happens_to_your_code_when_you_use_these_enterprise_programming_tricks

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Clean Coders Hate What Happens To Your Code When You Use These Enterprise Programming Tricks Proposer: Kevlin Henney Type: Case Study Duration: 15 mins Description: It is all to easy to dismiss problematic codebases on some nebulous idea of bad practice or bad programmers. Poor code, however, is rarely arbitrary and random in its structure or formulation. Systems of code, well or poorly structured, emerge from systems of practice, whether effective or ineff…

coccinelle_for_the_working_programmer

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Coccinelle for the Working Programmer Proposer: Julia Lawall Type: Interactive tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Coccinelle is a program matching and transformation tool for C programs that has been extensively applied to the Linux kernel and is used on a number of other C code bases. Coccinelle makes it easy to specify software specific rules for finding bugs and for updating software to use new APIs. These rules can then be applied automatically acr…

coding_from_examples_-_a_dojo

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Coding from Examples - A Dojo Proposer: Wim Heemskerk Proposer: Martin van Dijken Type: Hands on Workshop Duration: 150-180 Minutes Description: This coding dojo will let you experience Behaviour Driven Development and Specification by Example from a coding perspective. We will hand out a set of properly-drafted scenarios with the rules to a small game. Using these scenarios, you will experience what it feels like to work inwards driven by acceptance tests…

coding_without_words

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Coding Without Words Proposer: Roger Orr Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: C++11 added some new facilities, for example lambdas and tuple, that let you program without needing to name things. I'll take a look at both of these, starting out by an overview of what the offer and then focussing on the strengths and weakenesses of using facilities like these.

compile-time_computations_in_c_14

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Compile-time Computations in C++14 Proposer: Peter Sommerlad Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: While in the past C++ provided compile-time computation only very clumsily using templates with value parameters, C++11 introduced the constexpr keyword and allows functions and constants to be computed at compile time. It even introduced a new category of types 'Literal Types' that can be used in such compile-time computations. C++14 further relaxed t…

complectification

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Complectification Proposer: Phil Nash Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: What do simple and complex really mean? What about complicated? Why is simple better and when is it not? How can we strive for simplicity and why is it not easy? This talk will look at the fundamental nature of these qualities and tie them back to how we write our software to give us tools and mental models for framing how we approach problems.

component_framework_implementation_in_c_11

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Component Framework implementation in C++11 Proposer: Sergey Sadovnikov Proposer: Vladimir Vishnevskii Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Component based approach is widely used in modern software engineering. The framework that will allow easy reconfiguring of the allocation of components by distributed executable modules, keep solution scalable by ability to add new component instances, with hot-update support via plugins, and extensive su…

concurrent_algorithms

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Writing concurrent programs using Test Driven Design on a Human Computer Proposer: Michel Grootjans Type: workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: Parallel Human Computer Session objectives: Understand concurrent systems problems and solutions. Learn how you can apply Test Driven Design to concurrent code. Experience how a parallel computer works and is programmed. Discover how simple rules and collaboration can solve complicated problems Intended audien…

dan_haywood

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Dan is a freelance consultant, developer, writer and trainer, specializing in domain-driven design, agile development, enterprise architecture and also REST, on the Java and .NET platforms. Dan is known as an advocate of the naked objects pattern, and is the lead committer to Apache Isis, a Java framework that implements the naked objects pattern. He also works (for a client) on an app that runs on top of Isis, called Estatio. You can find Estatio up on github…

dan_saks

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Dan Saks is the president of Saks & Associates, which offers training and consulting in C and C++ and their use in developing embedded systems. Dan has taught thousands of programmers around the world. He has presented at hundreds of lectures at numerous industry conferences.

dataflow_the_architecture_of_the_future

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Dataflow — the architecture of the future Proposer: Russel Winder Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: In the rush to embrace shared-memory multi-threading as the framework of choice for managing concurrency and parallelism, models such as actors, dataflow, CSP (communicating sequential processes), and data parallelism got forgotten by mainstream computing folk. Now that it has become clear again that shared-memory multi-threading is a low-leve…

david_sackstein

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: David is a senior software consultant and lecturer in C++ and .Net, focusing on good design practices and Clean Code. He has developed a series of hands on courses on these subjects which he delivers regularly to companies such as Intel and NCR. David is keen to learn and to teach new techniques that offer clean solutions to difficult programming challenges.

deliver_domain_driven_designs._dynamically

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Deliver Domain Driven Designs. Dynamically! Proposer: Austin Bingham Proposer: Robert Smallshire Type: Workshop Duration: 360 mins Description: How do you statically model an ever changing world? The approach of Domain Driven Design (DDD) describes the codification of perspectives of reality into a domain model, which is in turn realized as a software system around which valuable services can be constructed. As business and physical domains evolve, our req…

dependency_injection_in_c_based_on_proposed_boost.di_library

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Dependency Injection in C++ (based on proposed Boost.DI library) Proposer: Krzysztof Jusiak Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Dependency injection is a common design pattern widely used in languages like Java(Google Guice) and C#(Ninject). Unfortunately C++ seems to be behind with this programming practice, probably due to the lack of C++ libraries which wouldn't cause performance degradation, be intrusive or easy to use/integrate. On the other …

deploying_your_applications_with_docker

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Deploying your applications with Docker Proposer: Gavin Heavyside Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Docker [1] is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Apps can be quickly assembled from components, and the same images can be used by development, QA, and production environments. You can ship faster and run the same app, unchanged, on laptops, data center VMs, and any cloud, eliminating di…

design_for_test

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Design for Test Proposer: Hubert Matthews Type: Talk Duration: 90 mins Description: How do you make a system testable and deployable? And how do you focus on the important parts? What should you mock and when? This talk shows how business value, unit testing and deployment are all linked by the design of the code. Based on a number of case studies and common testing issues it offers some techniques and principles for providing both low- and high-level s…

design_for_testability_-_what_why_and_how

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Design For Testability: What, Why and How Proposer: Giovanni Asproni Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: 'To be tested a system has to be designed to be tested' Eberhardt Rechtin, 'The Art Of System Architecting' Testing is one of the main activities through which we gather data to assess the quality of our software; this makes testability an important attribute of software - not only for development, but also for maintenance and bug fixing.

details_matter

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Details Matter Proposer: Alisdair Meredith Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: When writing a library for general consumption, even the smallest details start to matter, if you do not want to surprise a user with some unexpected behavior.

detlef_vollmann

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

Back to 2015-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 an…

didier_verna

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

Back to 2015-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.

diego_rodriguez-losada

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Diego Rodriguez-Losada is Industrial Engineer, MsC in Mechanics, PhD in robotics and computer vision, professor in Technical University of Madrid since 2004 teaching programming, industrial informatics, and software engineering. He left his tenure-track position at university in 2012 to start-up

dietmar_kuhl

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Dietmar is a senior software developer at Bloomberg L.P. working on the data distrubtion environment used both internally and by enterprise installations at clients. In the past, he has done mainly consulting for software projects in the finance area. He is a regular attendee of the ANSI/ISO C++ standards committee and a moderator of the newsgroup comp.lang.c++.moderated.

dimitar_bakardzhiev

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Dimitar Bakardzhiev is the Managing Director of Taller Technologies Bulgaria and an expert in driving successful and cost-effective technology development. As a Lean-Kanban University (LKU)-Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT) and avid, expert Kanban practitioner, Dimitar puts lean principles to work every day when managing complex software projects with a special focus on building innovative, powerful mobile CRM solutions for Oracle CRM On Demand and salesforce.com us…

dirk_haun

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Dirk Haun has worked as a software developer, head of QA, and build manager before moving on. His ultimate goal is now to free the world from bad presentations. Homepage: Location: Germany Email: dirk@haun-online.de Braindump - How to leave your Knowledge when leaving your Job

dmitriy_mindra

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Dmytro holds the position of Software Development Engineer in Test at Unity Technologies. He is one of the Toolsmiths who are developing tools for test automation. Prior to joining Unity, Dmytro has worked for Microsoft and Lohika. He is a frequent speaker at various conferences and User Group meetings.

dmytro_mindra

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

docker_not_only_for_developers

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Docker (not only) for developers Proposer: Claudius Link Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: The Docker container engine has gained quite some traction as a DevOps platform. While Docker certainly is very useful for deploying, distributing and operating applications it is not limited to that. With the infrastructure and workflows Docker provides it is also a powerful tool for developing and testing.

dominic_robinson

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Dominic has mis-spent the last 28 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 6 years developing a fault tolerant, distributed b…

duncan_mcgregor

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Duncan is not the coauthor of Growing Object Oriented Software. He does OK though - he's presented at every SPA since 2001, and people pay him to write code even after they've seen it. Homepage: Location: Hampshire Email: duncan@oneeyedmen.com

efficiency_with_algorithms_performance_with_data_structures

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures Proposer: Chandler Carruth Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Why do you write C++ code? There is a good chance it is in part because of concerns about the performance of your software. Whether they stem from needing to run on every smaller mobile devices, squeezing the last few effects into video game, or because every watt of power in your data center costs too much, C++ programme…

embedded_programming_death_match_-_c_vs._c

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Embedded Programming Death Match: C vs. C++ Proposer: Dan Saks Type: Case Study Duration: 90 mins Description: C offers various ways to represent and manipulate hardware devices. C++ offers additional object-oriented techniques that provide higher levels of abstraction. Many C programmers assert that using C++ objects for hardware accesses is too costly, yet they can offer no measurements to back that claim. This session explains how to actually measure …

evolving_software_-_a_fusion_of_the_developer_and_evolutionary_algorithms

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title:Evolving Software: A Fusion of the Developer and Evolutionary Algorithms Proposer: Christopher Simons Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: The agile principle of iterative software development to deliver working software frequently is well understood and widely practiced. Indeed, the practice of iterative software development has led to the notion of software evolving over its lifetime, wherein software must respond to change and continually adap…

exception_handling

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Exception 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

executors_for_c_-_contd

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Executors for C++ - contd. 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. Last years presentation about executors presented the then current proposal for a…

f_sharp_in_social_gaming

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: F# in Social Gaming Proposer: Yan Cui Type: Case Study Duration: 90 mins Description: F# is an incredibly versatile and expressive language and enables you to solve a wide array of problems succinctly and efficiently. This talk illustrates, with real-world examples, how the Gamesys social team is using F# to build the backend services that support around 1 million Daily Active Users (DAU) and 250 million daily requests across its social games on both mobile…

felienne_hermans

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Felienne is a professor in software engineering, researching spreadsheets. In 2013 she defended her PhD thesis, which explores the idea of viewing spreadsheets as code, and supporting spreadsheet users with methods from software engineering. Spreadsheet refactoring? Spreadsheet testing? She and her team at the spreadsheet lab make it a reality. Felienne is co-founder of Intron, a university spin off helping companies professionalize their spreadsheet and she is a …

fizzbuzzalooza

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Fizzbuzzalooza Proposer: Kevlin Henney Type: Talk Duration: 90 mins Description: Fizz Buzz. It's a drinking game. It's an educational game to teach kids division. It's an interview question. It's a coding kata. It's all these things. And it can be fun. It can also be used to illustrate different coding paradigms, languages and techniques, from the serious to the jocoserious to the you-cannot-be-serious. This talk uses this simple problem to take you on a ba…

frances_buontempo

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Frances Buontempo 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 15 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…

francis_glassborow

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Homepage: Location: Oxford Email: francis.glassborow@btinternet.com From Cluster Zero to a Quantum Universe

from_cluster_zero_to_a_quantum_universe

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: From Cluster Zero to a Quantum Universe Proposer: Francis Glassborow Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: In 1979 I started on the design of a cluster of 100000 stars located in a volume of space of a million cubic light years. The density of stars was high at the centre and low at the edge of the cluster. Stars were not uniform nor located at fixed grid points. I implemented phase 1 of the design on a z80 based machine with 32K of RAM. I al…

functional_c

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Functional C++ Proposer: Kevlin Henney Type: Talk Duration: 90 mins Description: Functional C++? As opposed to what - dysfunctional? Well, kind of, yeah. Sure, in C++ the principal unit of composition is called a function, but that doesn't mean it's a functional language. And the idea of restricting mutability of state gets a nod with const, but it's a nod not a hug. And the STL shows influences of functional programming, although it falls short of being c…

functional_scripting_with_f

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Functional Scripting with F# Proposer: Phil Nash Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Scripting languages tend to be dynamic and scripts are usually fundamentally imperative and full of side-effects. So why would you even consider a functional language for such a role - let alone recommend it as an ideal fit? How can we use the strengths of a functional-first language like F# to make our scripting tasks easier, more reliable and more fun? What is s…

games_of_gangs_-_gamifying_the_r_d_for_knowledge_quality_and_scale

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Games of Gangs - Gamifying the R&D for Knowledge, Quality and Scale Proposer: Aviran Mordo Type: Case Study Duration: 90 mins Description: Working in a fast growing company that doubles in size every year, maintaining growth while keeping the quality of products and the engineers is a very challenging task.

gavin_heavyside

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Gavin is Director of Engineering at MyDrive Solutions, a motor insurance telematics and data science company. 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 15 years Gavin has developed software for platforms including mobile phones, desktop PCs, servers and telephone exchanges. At MyDrive Solutions…

getting_started_with_ipv6

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

Back to 2015-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…

getting_started_with_jquery_and_how_it_works_together_with_asp.net_webforms_and_mvc

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Getting started with jQuery and how it works together with ASP.NET WebForms and MVC Proposer: Gill Cleeren Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: jQuery is the new favorite of web developers. This lightweight JavaScript library makes developers love writing JavaScript code again! What needed 20 lines of code first is now reduced to 3 lines. Who wouldn't be enthusiastic?! Microsoft showed its love for the library by fully integrating it in Visual …

gil_zilberfeld

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Gil Zilberfeld has been in software since childhood, writing BASIC programs on his trusty Sinclair ZX81. With more than twenty years of developing commercial software, he has vast experience in software methodology and practices.

gill_cleeren

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Gill Cleeren is Microsoft Regional Director, Client Dev MVP, Pluralsight trainer and Telerik MVP. He lives in Belgium where he works as .NET architect at Ordina. Gill has given numerous sessions, webcasts and trainings on new as well as existing technologies, such as Windows 8, Windows Phone, Silverlight, at conferences including TechEd, TechDays, DevDays, NDC Oslo & London, Silverlight Roadshow in Sweden, Telerik RoadShow UK, BuildStuff Lithuania, NRW Conference.…

giovanni_asproni

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

Back to 2015-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_branching_models_that_scale

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Git Branching Models That Scale Proposer: Lee Winder Type: Case Study Duration: 90 mins Description: DVCS tools are often seen as complex and difficult to use, seen as extremely powerful but lacking the features - be that exclusive check-out, usable client tools or simplicity - that restricts it's ability to scale as both team sizes and projects increase in size.

gpu_programming_-_a_review

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: GPU programming - a review Proposer: Pattabhi Raman Type: Case Study Duration: 90 mins Description: In my previous talk at ACCU 2014, I spoke about “Random number generation in C++ - present and potential future”. The present talk will focus on its next domain, “GPU programming”. Although Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) was invented to boost image processing, it has proved to be a green solution to the super computation. This is so, because, a GPU contain h…

groovy_building_with_gradle

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title:Groovy Building with Gradle Proposer: Russel Winder Type: Presentation Duration: 360 mins Description: In the Java world Make gave way to Ant, which gave way to Maven (with some Gant), which is giving way to Gradle. Gradle is now the build framework of choice for the discerning Java and Groovy developer, showing that internal DSLs (domain specific languages) are the future for build frameworks. Gradle can also be used for many other languages such as Scala a…

guy_bolton_king

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Guy has worked in a number of languages across a variety of domains during more than 20 years as a professional programmer. Right now he's working on a legacy C++ system, with a body of tests already written in Boost.Test, hence this session.

guy_davidson

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Guy Davidson is the Coding Manager for Creative Assembly, responsible for the Total War series and more recently the critically acclaimed Alien:Isolation. His roles include recruiting, training and developing the programming corps, maintaining the platform layer library and debugging tools, and latterly porting the Total War franchise to

hands_on_machine_learning

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Hands on Machine Learning Proposer: Burkhard Kloss Type: Workshop Duration: 360 mins Description: A hands on exploration of machine learning algorithms, starting with raw real world data sets and ending with working classification tools. If there's enough interest, we can work on one or more problems suggested by participants, otherwise we can work through some publicly available datasets.

hardening_your_code_-_techniques_to_boost_confidence_in_your_code

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Hardening your code: Techniques to boost confidence in your code. Proposer: Marshall Clow Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Are you worried that your code has a lot of undiscovered bugs? How can you be more confident that your code is reliable? In this session, I will talk about techniques and tools that you can use to reduce the number of bugs/defects in your code base. Code examples will be in C++ and the tools will be C/C++ specific, but many…

hello_xamarin.forms_-_building_cross-platform_apps_over_lunch

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Hello Xamarin.Forms - building cross-platform apps over lunch Proposer: Gill Cleeren Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: With the release of Xamarin 3, a new API has been added to the product named Xamarin.Forms. Xamarin.Forms is a cross-platform natively backed UI toolkit abstraction that allows developers to easily create user interfaces that can be shared across Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. With Forms, building your apps’ UI will be muc…

helping_to_kill_oop_in_c_-_introduction_to_monads

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Helping to kill OOP in C++: introduction to monads Proposer: Diego Rodriguez-Losada Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: Certainly OOP has been abused, and influenced by OO design patterns, Java extreme OO, and inexperienced developers doing especulative inheritances hierarchies and polimorphisms, things have sometimes gone too far away of the KIS(S) principle. “Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. …

history_and_spirit_of_c_and_c

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: History and Spirit of C and C++ Proposer: Olve Maudal Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: To get a deep understanding of C and C++, it is useful to know the history of these wonderful programming languages. It is perhaps even more important to appreciate the driving forces, motivation and the spirit that has shaped these languages into what we have today.

how_many_smart_pointers_does_the_c_standard_need

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: How many Smart Pointers does the C++ standard need? Proposer: Peter Sommerlad Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Plain pointers in C++ where inherited from C and are still in heavy use. However, operator overloading of C++ allows to create

how_to_diffuse_your_way_out_of_a_paper_bag

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: How to diffuse your way out of a paper bag Proposer: Frances Buontempo Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Many applications in variety of areas from finance to epidemiology use Monte Carlo simulations of stochastic models. This talk will revise the basics of Monte Carlo models, and consider when they are appropriate. In particular, it will demonstrate standard and geometric Brownian motion, showing various approaches to diffusing one's way out of…

how_to_fail_a_software_project_fast_and_efficiently

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: How to fail a software project fast and efficiently? Proposer: Thomas Sundberg Type: Presentation Duration: 45 mins Description: Software development is an industry that has been around for a little bit more than 50 years. There are a lot of really smart people working in this industry. How is it possible that these smart people are so good at failing? How can we as an industry continue year after year with failing or really slow development?

how_to_merge

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: How to Merge Proposer: Charles Bailey Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: As we benefit from the increased flexibility and power of source control tools, we find branching cheap and easy. But having more branches means that we need to merge more often and now we are faced with the prospect of resolving merge conflicts on a more frequent basis.

how_to_name_things_-_the_hardest_problem_in_programming

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: How to name things - the hardest problem in programming Proposer: Peter Hilton Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Developers can get better at their craft by learning from the great writers who mastered theirs. Writing software isn't the same as writing a novel, but there are parallels. Besides, advice from writers is better because writers have been struggling with their craft for many centuries, not just a few decades. It's better-written as well…

how_we_test_software_at_unity_technologies

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: How we test software at Unity Technologies Proposer: Dmytro Mindra Type: Case Study Duration: 90 mins Description: We are making a cross platform game engine used by millions of game developers worldwide. The engine supports 16 platforms and on each one of them it should work like a charm. This talk is about the tools, practices and processes that we are using to deliver top quality game engine to the market.

hubert_matthews

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

Back to 2015-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…

in_the_toolbox_live

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: In the Toolbox - Live! Proposer: Chris Oldwood Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: As a general rule we should strive to use the right tool for the job. If you find yourself installing an IDE on a production server just to search your log files for a particular piece of text, then you've probably chosen the wrong tool.

integrating_python_and_c_with_boost.python

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Integrating Python and C++ with Boost.Python Proposer: Austin Bingham Type: Workshop Duration: 360 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 Python's C

introduction_to_distributed_system_and_serialization_frameworks_in_c_c

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Introduction to distributed system and serialization frameworks in C/C++ Proposer: Diego Rodriguez-Losada Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: Between low-level system sockets and high level HTTP frameworks and systems, there are some interesting distributed libraries, being ZMQ (ZeroMQ) or Nanomsg well known for providing out of the box with mature and robust solutions for multiple paradigms: pub-sub, broadcast, multicast, etc. To complement them,…

introduction_to_jenkins_ci

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Introduction to Jenkins CI Proposer: Mike Long Type: Workshop Duration: 360 mins Description: This is the “A Day in a Jenkins CI User’s Life” course, that will dress you up to be completely confident with juggling Jenkins jobs as natural part of your everyday work.

investing_upstream_-_the_secret_to_smooth_scrum_sprints_with_effective_product_ownership

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Investing Upstream: The secret to smooth Scrum Sprints with effective Product Ownership Proposer: Tom Sedge Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: It's great when teams reach delivery maturity with execution at speed and high quality. It's no surprise that there's so much emphasis on doing Sprints well because that's the heart of Scrum.

ismail_pazarbasi

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Ismail is currently working as a software engineer at Cisco, in Oslo, Norway. He has previously worked at Opera Software, where he has developed Opera browser for Windows Mobile, Windows CE, An- droid, and Mac OS X. He is trying to contribute to Clang irregularly. He is an avid vim user, alas not an expert of that. Playing video games, traveling, and skiing - despite his rather poor skills - are among his hobbies.

it_s_the_top_10_of_cool_html5_features_every_developer_should_know_right_now

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: It’s the top 10 of cool HTML5 features every developer should know right now Proposer: Gill Cleeren Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: HTML5 contains many new interesting features that make the platform a capaple development platform. Sockets, SVG, geolocation, local storage and many more are included in the platform. In this one hour session, we will look at cool implementations of 10 features of HTML5.

james_mcnellis

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: James McNellis is a senior engineer on the Microsoft Visual C++ team, where he is responsible for the Visual C++ C Runtime (CRT) and C Standard Library implementation. He was previously a member of the Microsoft Expression Blend team, developing the XAML designer tools for Windows 8 apps. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2010, he spent several years working on real-time 3-D simulation and robotics projects in the defense industry. James is a prolific contributor on t…

jean_pierre_lejacq

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Jean Pierre LeJacq is co-founded of Quoin Inc () in 1994 and has since served as chief technology officer. He has broad experience working in the software development focusing on C/C++ reliability and security. Homepage: Location: Davidson, NC, USA

jeroen_van_der_wal

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Jeroen van der Wal and Dan Haywood have been working together for 2 ½ years building Estatio, an open source estate management system built on Apache Isis. Both are freelance software consultants/developers, and both are committers to Apache Isis.

jim_coplien

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Homepage: Location: Email: jcoplien@gmail.com Reflections on Reflection Scrum Patterns

jim_hague

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

Back to 2015-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.

jims_keynote

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: title Proposer: Jim Coplien Type: Keynote Duration: 60 mins Description: description

john_lakos

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

Back to 2015-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 framewor…

jonathan_wakely

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Jonathan's interest in C++ and free software began at university and led to working in the tools team at Red Hat, via the market research and financial sectors. He works on GCC's C++ Standard Library and participates in the C++ standards committee.

jose_daniel_garcia_sanchez

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: J. Daniel Garcia is Associate Professor of Computer Architecture at University Carlos III of Madrid. Before joining academia he worked as a software engineer in industrial projects ranging real time control systems, civil engineering, medical imaging, aerospace engineering, and high performance scientific computing. He is the spanish head of delegation at ISO C++ standards committee. Currently he leads the REPARA project funded by the European Comission and aiming…

juan_alday

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Both Shayne and I have been working in financial firms for at least 20 years. Shayne is the co-author of Financial Modelling in Python Homepage: Location: New York Email: juanalday@gmail.com C++ A Functional Approach

julia_lawall

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Julia Lawall is a Senior Research Scientist at Inria. Her research is at the intersection of programming languages and operating systems. Over the past 7 years, she has been developing the Coccinelle program matching and transformation tool. She has 1000 patches in the Linux kernel based on the use of Coccinelle, and hundreds of other patches in the Linux kernel have been developed using Coccinelle. In addition to many years of experience in teaching and giving pr…

just_keep_shipping

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title:Just Keep Shipping Proposer: Thaddaeus Frogley Type: Case Study Duration: 90 mins Description: Launching is no longer the end goal, it's just the beginning. The adoption of the internet, mobile devices, and digital software delivery are becoming ubiquitous.

kate_gregory

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Kate Gregory has been using C++ since before Microsoft had a C++ compiler. She writes, mentors, codes, and leads projects, in both C++ and .NET, especially for Windows 7 and 8. Kate is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Visual C++ MVP, and has written over a dozen books (the most recent on C++ AMP for Microsoft Press) and speaks at conferences and user groups around the world. Kate develops courses on C++, Visual Studio, and Windows programming for Pluralsight, foun…

kevlin_henney

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

Back to 2015-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…

kill_the_mutant_-_exterminate_bugs

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Kill the mutant - exterminate bugs Proposer: Seb Rose Type: Tutorial Duration: 15 mins Description: Mutation testing has been around for years, but it's only recently that performant tools (such as PITest for Java) have become available. I'll cover what it is, why it's useful and how it relates to coverage. By the end you'll understand how killing mutants can help you deliver better code.

killing_the_singleton_pattern_in_c

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Killing the singleton pattern in C++ Proposer: Jose Daniel Garcia Sanchez Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Singleton is one of the most controversial pattern from GoF book. Since its original publication it has lead to many advices of how to properly use it and solving different problems. In this talk I will review these problems and solutions. In particular, I will review how this scenario changes with C++ 11/14. I will advocate that Singleton…

klaus_marquardt

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Klaus is Global Platform Manager with Drager Medical in Lubeck, Germany. His 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

krzysztof_jusiak

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Software engineer with 5 years experience of programming in C++ with embedded systems as well as game development using eXtreme programming techniques such as test driven development, pair programming or continues integration. Enthusiast of modern C++ high performance computation, especially using compile time techniques together with domain specific languages. Open source supporter and true believer.

lance_diduck

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Currently work in the finance sector writing quantitative libraries in C++ and Python. I’ve been programming C++ almost daily for 20 years, have contributed papers to the C++ Standard Committee, and make many presentations on the subject.

language_integration_and_migration

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Language integration and migration Proposer: Laurence Tratt Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Programming languages are islands, each disconnected from the rest. We choose a language for a task and, for better or worse, stick with it. Communicating between programs written in different languages is such a slow, arduous, task that we avoid doing it whenever possible.

large_scale_scientific_c

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Large-Scale Scientific C++ For Casual Coders: Why You (Should) Care Proposer: Axel Naumann Type: Keynote Duration: 60 mins Description: This keynote will introduce the use of C++ for storing and analyzing petabytes of C++ objects at CERN, and more generally in High Energy Physics. Many hundreds of developers, including physicists with limited software skills, have contributed to a code base of > 50 million lines of code that has a lifetime of more than 40 ye…

laurence_tratt

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Laurence Tratt is a Reader in Software Development at King's College London. He designed and implemented the Converge programming language. Homepage: Location: UK Email: laurie@tratt.net Language integration and migration

learn_from_the_mistakes_of_others

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Learn from the mistakes of others... Proposer: Alison Lloyd Type: Keynote Duration: 60 mins Description: . . . you won't live long enough to make all of them yourself. Having worked in a wide variety of fields (and some buildings), including embedded software, helicopter aviation, technical theatrical production, education, and (building) construction and maintenance, Alison still finds it amazing that very different people in wildly different areas often…

lee_winder

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Technical Team Lead for SEGA Europe, Lee Winder has worked in the games industry for over a decade using a variety of technologies from cutting edge consoles to low spec mobile devices. He has a possibly unhealthy interest in software development practices, especially source control and work flow management.

less_is_more_-_an_introduction_to_low-fidelity_approaches

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Less is more - an introduction to low-fidelity approaches Proposer: Seb Rose Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: This session will demonstrate some key techniques that help decompose large problems. Decomposing problems is a key skill that all software developers need, but we're often not very good at it. Whether it's stories that take longer than an iteration, or features that can't be delivered in the expected release, we've all seen the prob…

lessons_from_closure

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Lessons From Closure Proposer: Michael Feathers Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: The SOLID design principles have been around for quite a while. Most developers have heard of them and many use them as guidance for their work. What few realize, however, is that the two most important principles: Single Responsibility and Open/Closed can be detected and measured using historical data from source code repositories. In this tutorial, Michael will p…

lessons_from_the_oulipo

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Lessons from the OuLiPo Proposer: Thomas Guest Type: Investigation Duration: 90 mins Description: The OuLiPo is a literary collective of mathematicians and writers whose interest is in applying algorithmic constraints to works of fiction. A simple example is the lipogram, a text which avoids any use of a particular letter. A more sophisticated example is Richard Beard's novel 'Damascus' in which the action occurs during a single day, and where every noun us…

literate_and_visual_testing_workshop

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Literate and Visual Testing Workshop Proposer: Duncan McGregor Proposer: Nat Pryce Type: Preconference Workshop Duration: 360 mins Description: A hands-on programming workshop exploring how to adapt Specification by Example (aka Acceptance Test Driven Development, BDD) for numerical and exploratory programming.

making_a_cross-platform_game_from_scratch_with_unity_game_engine

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Making a cross-platform game from scratch with Unity game engine Proposer: Dmytro Mindra Type: Workshop Duration: 360 Mins Description: Every programmer once had a dream of making a game. At this workshop the dream will come true. Using a free edition of Unity game engine, we'll create a fully functional game and will deploy it to web or mobile device.

making_c_code_beautiful

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Making C++ Code Beautiful Proposer: Kate Gregory Proposer: James McNellis Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Ask a non-C++ developer what they think of C++ and they'll give the language plenty of compliments: powerful, fast, flexible, and

making_the_case_for_review

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Making the Case for Review Proposer: Austin Bingham Type: Talk Duration: 90 mins Description: Software development is a young (some would say immature) profession, and a lot of what we do as software developers is guided by anecdotes, intuition, and received wisdom. The topic of reviews, however, is a bit different, and we've actually got a substantial body of research that tells us something important: reviews improve quality, reduce delivery time, and sav…

marshall_clow

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Speaker biography: Marshall has been programming in C++ for 20 years. He contributes to Boost, where he is the maintainer of several libraries, and LLVM, where he is the 'code owner' for libc++. He is a Principal Engineer at Qualcomm in San Diego.

martin_van_dijken

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Software developer, agilist, maximizer, builder, freelancer. My values have always centered around getting the greatest result out of the hours I spend working. Starting as a junior software developer, I was always interested in technologies that helped me and my team increase our output. During my long career as a developer, I learned more and more that the focus should first be on building the right thing. The way to achieve that is through interaction with t…

matthew_dodkins

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Matthew is a very experienced programmer (coding since he was 6) having a lot of fun leading an Agile team of embedded software engineers in Cornwall, England. Homepage: Location: San Diego Email: matthew.dodkins@gmail.com

maximizing_reliability_and_security_with_modern_c_c

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Maximizing Reliability and Security with Modern C/C++ Proposer: Jean Pierre LeJacq Type: Tutorial + Case Study Duration: 90 mins Description: Recent advancements in the C/C++ language, available open-source tooling, and operating system support has revolutionized software development in these languages. Projects such as LLVM/clang are providing sophisticated static and dynamic analysis tools that are easy to use and practical.

mens_sana_in_corpore_sano_ii

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Mens Sana In Corpore Sano II Proposer: Phil Nash Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: While ostensible the same subject as my 2014 talk of corresponding name this is mostly entirely new material, and that little which is common is completely reworked. The focus this time is more heavily on the sitting/ standing/ moving issue - particularly as it relates to those working in a software development environment, with more extensive practical advice bas…

michael_feathers

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Michael Feathers is the Founder and Director of R7K Research & Conveyance, a company specializing in software and organization design. Prior to forming R7K, Michael was the Chief Scientist of Obtiva and a consultant with Object Mentor International. Over the past 20 years he has consulted with hundreds of organizations, supporting them with general software design issues, process change and code revitalization. A frequent presenter at national and international co…

michael_upton

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Mike is a developer and tech lead at Red Gate. He has been a software engineer for 13 years, working in C++, Java, and more recently C# (he's overly-fond of curly braces). In recent years, and especially since joining Red Gate in 2011, he's been inspired by the Agile and Software Craftsmanship movements to explore ways to help software teams work together more effectively.

michel_grootjans

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Michel Grootjans has been programming since the age of 12. He has programmed strange machines like the TI 99-4A, the Atari 2600, Mac128, HP28, Apple II, Siemens PLC's using languages like Basic, Pascal, C, HyperTalk, Assembler, etc along the way.

mike_long

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: I'm Mike Long, an independent software consultant based in Oslo, Norway. My specialties include coaching and mentoring teams to adopt modern technical practices in hostile embedded and legacy environments. I have over 10 years of professional software engineering experience, working in a variety of cultures and business domains. I consider software as a craft, and enjoy sharing the pursuit of technical excellence with fellow professionals.

mittens_for_catching_and_handling_exceptions

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Mittens for Catching and Handling Exceptions Proposer: Adi Shavit Type: Introduction and tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Mittens (soon on GitHub), is a small header-only library for uniform handling of exceptions, particularly along module boundaries.

mock_objects_in_functional_testing

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Mock objects in functional testing Proposer: Sven Rosvall Type: Tutorial and case-study Duration: 90 mins Description: Mock objects are great. They simplify testing enormously and are crucial for unit testing. There are many mocking frameworks available for many languages. But most of them are designed only for unit testing. Don't you wish you could use them in functional testing where the system under test, instead of being controlled from the test code, e…

modelling_complex_game_economy_with_neo4j

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Modelling complex game economy with Neo4j Proposer: Yan Cui Type: Case Study Duration: 15 mins Description: The challenge of modelling and balancing the economy of a large scale game is one of the biggest problems game developers face and one that many have tried to solve by simply throwing man-hours at it

modernizing_legacy_c

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Modernizing Legacy C++ Proposer: Kate Gregory Proposer: James McNellis Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: C++ is a programming language with a long, storied history spanning over three decades - four if one includes its C ancestry. The C++ language has undergone many changes during that time, compiler technology has advanced substantially, and computers today are very different from the computers of decades past. But despite all of these adv…

monad_at_the_hyperbole_and_other_awesome_stories

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Monad at the Hyperbole (and other awesome stories) Proposer: Seb Rose Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: This session will help you to be a better software developer. As software developers we have to deliver something useful to our customers. We have to produce it in a manner that acknowledges their requirements and their context. And usually, we’ll need to be able to work in a team - with other people.

my_adventure_with_elm

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: My adventure with Elm Proposer: Yan Cui Type: Tutorial Duration: 15 mins Description: Reactive Extensions (Rx) has brought reactive programming to the mainstream in recent years with successful adoption in languages such as C#, Java and JavaScript.

nat_pryce

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Nat is the coauthor of Growing Object Oriented Software, developer of JMock, and industry thought leader. Homepage: Location: London Email: nat@natpryce.com Literate and Visual Testing Workshop Whatever Happened to XP’s System Metaphor

new_features_of_c

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: 'New' Features of C Proposer: Dan Saks Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: The first international standard for the C programming language was C90. Since then, two newer standards have been published, C99 and C11. C99 introduced a significant number of new features. C11 introduced a few more, some of which have been available in compilers for some time. Curiously, many of these added features don't seem to have caught on. Many C programmers s…

noestimates_does_not_mean_no_estimates

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: NoEstimates does not mean 'no estimates' Proposer: Seb Rose Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: The #NoEstimates hashtag has been generating a lot of heat in software development circles for the past couple of years, but what does it really mean? It's time to find out.

noestimates_project_planning_using_monte_carlo_simulation

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: #NoEstimates Project Planning using Monte Carlo simulation Proposer: Dimitar Bakardzhiev Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Clients come to us with an idea for a product and they always ask the questions - how long will it take and how much will it cost us to deliver? They need a delivery date and a budget estimate. In product development we break the project delivery into a batch (or batches) of work items. We are interested in how much time …

olve_maudal

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Olve Maudal works for Cisco Systems where he is involved in developing collaboration solutions and telepresence technology. 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.

on_chosen_complexity

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: On Chosen Complexity Proposer: Klaus Marquardt Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Complexity is an inherent part of our projects, so rather than denying we better get on top of it and start to surf. This session presents 10 laws of complexity, 10 rules how to cope with complexity, and gives application hints in the workshop part.

open_design_proposals_for_design_evolution

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Open Design Proposals for Design Evolution Proposer: Austin Bingham Type: Talk Duration: 90 mins Description: This talk is about what I call Open Design Proposals, a technique for helping make the process of design evolution more transparent by deliberately and explicitly opening up major decisions for observation and review. The main point is that making things like design proposals, architectural decisions, roadmaps, and major drivers visible to and ope…

parallel_programming_patterns

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Parallel Programming Patterns Proposer: Detlef Vollmann Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Atomics, mutexes and condition variables are low-level synchronization tools for implementing higher-level mechanisms to build concurrent and parallel systems. It's general consensus that application programmers normally shouldn't use such low-level tools directly, but instead build their systems based on those higher-level building blocks. But what are the…

pattabhi_raman

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: I am a tutor in programming and numeric subjects. I have developed new data mining algorithms and user-friendly software in nuclear spectroscopy. I am a member of the ACCU and the BSI C++ panel. My hobby is writing books for graduate students and school children.

pete_goodliffe

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Pete Goodliffe is a programmer, a software development columnist, a musician, and author. His new book, Becoming a Better Programmer, has just been released by O'Reilly. Has has a passion for curry and doesn't wear shoes. Homepage:

peter_hilton

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Peter Hilton is a software developer, writer, speaker, trainer, and musician. Peter's professional interests are web application development, functional design, agile software development and project management. He has extensive experience on projects for large customers in the logistics, government, financial services, energy, utilities, pharmaceutical, transport and space industries.

peter_sommerlad

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

Back to 2015-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 …

phil_nash

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Phil started his career fascinated with the idea of making computers do anything he wanted. When he discovered this didn't always work out he became fascinated with the idea of making code better. When he discovered this didn't always work out he became fascinated with the idea of making coders better. When he discovered this didn't always work out he became fascinated with the idea of making his own understanding of how to make coders and code better, better. In …

portable_code_-_the_trials_of_porting_total_war_from_windows_to_os_x

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Portable Code - the trials of porting Total War from Windows to MacOS X Proposer: Guy Davidson Proposer: Tom Miles Type: Case Study Duration: 90 mins Description: For nearly fifteen years Creative Assembly's Total War franchise has carved out a fanatical following amongst Windows gamers. A real time strategy game of considerable complexity, think Risk meets table-top warfare, the code base is on its third iteration. Throughout development the Microsoft t…

premature_optimisation_workshop

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Premature Optimisation Workshop Proposer: Arjan van Leeuwen Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: 'Premature optimisation is the root of all evil', Donald Knuth told us in 1974. He was talking about the perceived trade-off between optimising performance and keeping code readable and maintainable. And we all know that we shouldn't even try optimising anything without measuring if there's an actual bottleneck in our product first. Or do we?

program_know_thyself

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: On reflecting on runtime or Program, know thyself Proposer: Dominic Robinson Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: In a language not renowned for its reflection capabilities we struggle to give programs a view of their own static properties. So what then of runtime? Can a program know what it is doing, or why it is doing it?

project_diy_hosting_options

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Project DIY hosting options Proposer: Jim Hague Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: SourceForge was a cool idea in its day, but now second generation web based project hosting sites are all the rage. The Big Daddy is GitHub, but others like Bitbucket provide attractive alternatives.

psychology_0101_or_7_-2_things_about_psychology

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Psychology 0101 (or 7+-2 things about psychology) Proposer: Claudius Link Type: Interactive Session Duration: 90 mins Description: While software development focus often on the used technologies and prescribed processes and strives to be an exact and repeatable activity, it is ultimately a human endeavour. And through this is subject to the quirks of human behaviour and psychology. Instead pure rational behaviour we knowingly or unconsciously deal with emot…

rachel_davies

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

Back to 2015-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 in London.

ramakrishnan_muthukrishnan

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan is an electrical engineer and a self-taught programmer. He worked with telephony systems, DSP (at Texas Instruments) and video conferencing systems (at Sandberg and Cisco) in his career. Off late he is working with Web authentication systems.

raphael_meyer

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: I am a software engineer currently working for a software engineering and consulting company based in Switzerland. Since graduating in 2006 with a degree in computer science and a minor in japanology I have been working mostly in C++ on embedded systems.

raw_tdd

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Raw TDD Proposer: Kevlin Henney Type: Preconference tutorial Duration: 360 mins Description: Looking around at the blogosphere, OSS repos and conferences, it might be easy to assume that test-driven development is all about frameworks - unit-testing frameworks, mocking frameworks and frameworks for dealing with frameworks. You can learn - or reconnect with - TDD from first principles without using frameworks as your starting point. What makes TDD effective …

refactor_first_test_second

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Refactor first, Test second Proposer: Gil Zilberfeld Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: Refactoring with a safety net is for the weak. Let’s face it, when we have a big ball of mud we inherited, and we want to test it, we’ll need to make some changes.

refactoring_legacy_code

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Refactoring Legacy Code Proposer: Dmytro Mindra Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Every programmer has to face legacy code day after day. It might be ugly, it might look scary, it can make a grown man cry. Some will throw it away and try rewriting everything from scratch. Most of them will fail.

referential_transparency_is_overrated

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Referential transparency is overrated Proposer: Didier Verna Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: The expression 'referential transparency' itself is already confusing and subject to interpretation, according to whether you're in the context of natural, functional or imperative languages. In any of those contexts however, referential transparency is generally regarded as a Good Thing

reflections_on_reflection

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Reflections on Reflection Proposer: Jim Coplien Type: Keynote Duration: 60 mins Description: This is an updated (since SPLASH 2013) look at concerns that usually play out far outside C++ circles: recognising the central role of reflection in effective programming. Programming is cursed with a mathematical heritage, and is laden with deductive formalisms suitable to building algorithms that deliver an answer and halt. Contemporary object-orientation follows …

remote_pair_programming

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Remote Pair Programming Proposer: Thomas Sundberg Type: Presentation Duration: 45 minutes Description: Programming is often something that is done in solitude. Problem solving is something that often is done in a group. Programming is always about problem solving. It is therefore natural to do programming in groups. The group must not be too large and there must be at least two persons to make up a reasonable group. A pair turns out as the natural choice.

robert_smallshire

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Robert Smallshire is a founding director of Sixty North, a software consulting business in Norway and operating throughout Europe. Robert has worked in senior architecture and technical management roles for several software companies providing tools in the energy sector for dealing with the masses of information flowing from today's digital oil fields. He has dealt with understanding, designing, advocating and implementing effective architectures for sophisticated…

roger_orr

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

Back to 2015-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.

running_a_small_business

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Running a small business Proposer: Alison Lloyd Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Many people would like to set up their own company, but unless you've done it before, it can be a little bewildering. Whether you're starting the next Google or just wish to sell your hand-made cat-hair jumpers on the internet, this talk has something for you: from different company structures to the sort of records and information you need to keep and the int…

russel_winder

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

Back to 2015-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, D and bit of Rust. And lots of Python especially Python-CSP.

rust_proofing_the_bare_metal_-_a_close_look_at_rust_programming_language

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Rust proofing the bare metal: A close look at Rust Programming Language. Proposer: Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Rust (<>) is a relatively new programming language from Mozilla Research that promises memory and type safety, a minimal runtime *and* zero cost abstractions. Rust syntax looks like the familiar C++ but underneath, it borrows a lot of nice features that improves programmer produ…

safety-off._how_not_to_shoot_yourself_in_the_foot_with_c_atomics

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Safety: off. How not to shoot yourself in the foot with C++ atomics. Proposer: Anthony Williams Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: If you're writing multithreaded code, it is tempting to use atomics to optimize the inter-thread synchronization and access to shared state. However, this is not always easy, and can all too often lead to code that appears to work but is subtly broken. I will show tools and techniques for using atomics safely in C++, …

schalk_cronje

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Schalk Cronjé’s experience in the software industry spans three decades and has performed most roles in software delivery. He believes that both software engineering and craftsmanship is important for the industry and that both disciplines should be taught to achieve holism in technology delivery. He also understands that there is a strong relationship between the modern software techniques that are used and the signature skills of people and these should be align…

scons

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: SCons Proposer: Russel Winder Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Make was a revelation and revolution in 1977. But with time it's limitation became apparent. Autotools and CMake have tried to keep it relevant to modern build, but these are really

scrum_patterns

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Scrum Patterns Proposer: Jim Coplien Type: Tutorial Duration: 360 mins Description: Scrum is easy to describe but hard to do: you’ve heard that a million times. And you’ve read your favorite am-I-doing-Scrum-properly checklist and believe it gives you an easy path to making your Scrum work. However, most Scrum failures have reasons that are not always obvious — and after you’re dead, you won’t even know what got you. Scrum comprises over 50 organizational pa…

seb_rose

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Seb wrote his first commercial software in the early 80s on an Apple II. He went on to graduate from the University of Edinburgh with a First-Class Joint Honours in Computer Science and Electronics. Over the past six years, he has focused on helping teams adopt and refine their agile practices.

sergey_sadovnikov

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Sergey Sadovnikiv is a Software Architect in Kaspersky Lab particularly interested in portable frameworks development. Being a big C++ fan he carefully tracks language development and enthusiastically tries its new features in his work.

seven_languages_in_90_minutes

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Seven Languages in 90 minutes Proposer: Michel Grootjans Type: Talk Duration: 90 mins Description: Goal Broaden your horizons by looking at solutions to common problems in different languages. Motivation Inspired by the book 'Seven languages in seven weeks': You should learn a programming language every year, as recommended by The Pragmatic Programmer. But if one per year is good, how about Seven Languages in 90 minutes? In this session you'll get a ha…

shayne_fletcher

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

simplicity

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Seeking Simplicity Proposer: Phil Nash Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: What is simplicity and why do we value it so much? How does it relate to complexity? When is complexity good and when is it bad? How does simplicity differ from ease? As we examine these questions we'll find that the situation is not quite as simple (!) as it might first appear. In the course of the discussion we'll come up with a mental model for framing problems that we c…

simplification

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Simplicity Proposer: Phil Nash Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: What is simplicity and why do we value it so much? How does it relate to complexity? When is complexity good and when is it bad? How does simplicity differ from ease? As we examine these questions we'll find that the situation is not quite as simple (!) as it might first appear. In the course of the discussion we'll come up with a mental model for framing problems that we can apply…

spocktacular_testing

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Spocktacular Testing Proposer: Russel Winder Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Spock is taking over from TestNG and JUnit as the unit/integration/system test framework of choice for Java and Groovy developers. Spock is a Groovy-based framework, tests are written in Groovy, but any JVM-based codes can be tested using it.

spreadsheets_for_developers

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Spreadsheets for developers Proposer: Felienne Hermans Type: Talk Duration: 90 mins Description: Spreadsheets are often dismissed by developers for not being 'proper programming'; but that is not true. Since I have shown that spreadsheets are

start

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: #beyondEstimates - The state of Agile Forecasting Proposer: Schalk Cronjé Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: There is a lot of talk on Twitter about #noEstimates (or its better named sidekick #beyondEstimates). There are those that are major protaginists. There are the acrive antagonists, but where are you the critical thinker? Are they as good as the protagonists are making them out to be, or are the just a fad as the antagonists would like you …

stepanov_s_litmus_test_in_a_scary_heterogeneous_world_-_does_c_still_pass

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Stepanov's litmus test in a scary, heterogeneous world: does C++ still pass? Proposer: Alex Voicu Type: Case Study + Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Some time ago, Alexander Stepanov proposed a litmus test: if a programming language can be used to implement max, swap, and linear search generically, it has potential. C++ passes with flying colours; the header could not exist otherwise. However, if we move outside of the walled garden …

steve_tendon

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Steve Tendon a senior, multilingual, executive management consultant, experienced at leading and directing multi-national and distributed knowledge-work organizations. Expert in organizational performance transformation programs. Adviser, consultant, coach, mentor, speaker and author, specializing in organizational productivity, organizational design, process excellence and process innovation. Steve Tendon help businesses create high-performance organizations an…

sven_rosvall

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Sven has a long career in many markets and technologies. He has a keen interest in quality and is passionate about Agile practices. Homepage: Location: Ireland Email: sven@rosvall.ie Mock objects in functional testing

swift_apple_s_new_programming_language

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Swift: Apple's new programming language. What is it and why should you care? Proposer: Phil Nash Type: Tutorial Duration: 15 mins Description: Swift was announced last year at Apple's WWDC (Worldwide Developer's Conference), officially released in September, and continues to undergo major revisions to this day. But what makes this language interesting and what impact might it have on us - whether we are iOS/ Mac developers or not?

switching_from_java_to_scala_is_not_that_hard_and_it_is_worth_it

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Switching from Java to Scala is not that hard and it is worth it Proposer: Zsolt Fabok Type: Tutorial - Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: Scala is getting popular among software developers and not just because it is a fancy new language but it runs on the JVM, has connection to Java, and it solves several problems that Java has. Based on these premises it is tempting to move from Java to Scala but before doing that it is better to check out what are t…

talking_to_the_suits

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Talking to the suits Proposer: Mike Long Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: As technical contributors, one of the biggest challenges we face is how communicate with our business stakeholders. This fun hands-on workshop will be performed in groups, working through case studies to develop skills in:

tdd_coding_dojo_in_c

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: TDD Coding Dojo in C# Proposer: Dmytro Mindra Type: Workshop Duration: 360 Mins Description: Dojo is a place for practice, training and sharpening one’s skills. Coding Dojo is a place where programmers learn from each other. It’s a social way to become a better programmer.

tdd_for_business_strategy_-_developing_agile_business_strategies_test-first

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: TDD for Business Strategy: Developing Agile Business Strategies Test-First Proposer: Tom Sedge Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Many organisations struggle to cross the “strategy chasm” between their business goals and their product pipelines. What should we do and how should we do it? How do we make sure that we don’t simply use Agile to deliver the wrong thing well?

template_to_copy_for_speakers

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: BIO-HERE Homepage: Email: EMAIL-HERE TITLE-HERE Location: LOCATION-HERE

template_to_copy

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: TITLE-HERE Proposer: FIRST-NAME-HERE SECOND-NAME-HERE Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: DESCRIPTION-HERE

thaddaeus_frogley

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Thaddaeus Frogley is a lead programmer at Boss Alien, creators of the top-grossing CSR Racing, and has been working as a programmer in the games industry for over 20 years. Homepage: Location: UK Email: thaddaeus@bossalien.com

the_awesome_power_of_visualising_work_-_unlocking_transformational_change_in_product_delivery

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: The Awesome Power of Visualising Work: Unlocking Transformational Change in Product Delivery Proposer: Tom Sedge Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: These days everyone is obsessed with improvement - how can we make things better? should we use this or this? will that tool help? what can we change? Fuelled by consultants, this creates a dangerous risk that we adopt ideas simply because they seem fresh and new. The results are all around us: lot…

the_best_way_to_find_bugs_hiding_in_your_spaghetti_is_to_feed_it_to_sanitizers

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: The best way to find bugs hiding in your spaghetti is to feed it to sanitizers Proposer: Ismail Pazarbasi Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: C, and C++ require special attention from programmer. Compilers, and static analysis tools help revealing hard-to-detect problems in source code, and they can generally ana- lyze one translation unit at a time. Static analysis tools may not diagnose effects of other translation units, information obtained at…

the_c_memory_model_for_concurrency

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: The C++ Memory Model for Concurrency Proposer: Mike Long Type: Presentation Duration: 45 mins Description: The memory model is perhaps one of the most valuable but misunderstood changes in c++11. For the first time, c++ programmers have a language contract with the runtime about how their code will be executed in the face of hardware optimizations, memory hierarchies and multiple threads of execution.

the_dos_and_don_ts_of_multithreading

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: The Dos and Don'ts of Multithreading Proposer: Hubert Matthews Type: Talk Duration: 90 mins Description: Multithreading is a popular subject and we've all been led to believe that we need to write threaded programs as single-threaded performance hits a ceiling. However, multithreading is no panacea and may cause more problems than it solves. This talk, suitable for programmers of any level and language, seeks to describe some of these problems and also ho…

the_integration_oriented_organization

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title:The Integration Oriented Organization Proposer: Klaus Marquardt Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Subtitled: Trunk based development - patterns and practice This talk explores why integration is the essential task for large projects and organization, and takes a closer look at how trunk based development and other configuration management policies fit into the organization.

the_map_is_not_the_territory

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: The map is not the territory Proposer: Dominic Robinson Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Caveat: 'Programming abounds with maxims. However you can't capture a complex truth with a glib catchphrase' (andybak ) The map-territory relation describes the relationship between an object and a representation of that object. In the case of maps, the map is a model of reality which must be interpreted in …

the_most_beautiful_code_in_the_world

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: The most beautiful code in the world Proposer: Gil Zilberfeld Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: We don’t get many opportunities to make our code as beautiful as it can be. We try to do our best, but due to pressure, deadlines, or conflicting ideas of what beauty is, we stop. Not this time. In this workshop, we’ll write the most beautiful code we can. Nothing is more important, and you have all the time to make it so. It’s about showing off!…

the_most_misunderstood_features_of_c..._explained

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: The Most Misunderstood Features of C - Explained Proposer: Dan Saks Type: Tutorial Duration: 360 mins Description: Most programming languages have dark corners. C seems to have more than its share. Almost all C programmers struggle to some extent with parts of the language that they don't quite understand. (C++ programmers struggle with many of the same features.) That which you don't understand could be hurting your productivity, reducing the quality o…

the_new_agile

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: The new agile Proposer: Gil Zilberfeld Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: We know that agile methodologies work at the team level, and there is now even an effort to scale into whole organizations. There is a clear reason behind this: we found ways to improve performance, by analyzing situations better, and making better decision. Every organization wants to apply this in every level. Like in the late 90s, new ideas are coming out that …

the_responsible_developer

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: The Responsible Developer Proposer: Thomas Sundberg Type: Presentation Duration: 45 mins Description: Developers are the translators between ideas and code. They translate ideas about functionality to code so the end users can benefit from a usable program. This translation has to be done in a careful and responsible way. It should be done by a responsible developer.

the_stand-up

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: The stand-up Proposer: Phil Nash Type: Tutorial Duration: 15 mins Description: Will this talk be a set of awkward one-liners, a lament of misplaced Agile practices, or a discussion of the perils of our sedentary lifestyles (and what you can do about them). The answer might shock you!

the_tameflow_approach_and_its_application_to_scrum_and_kanban

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: The TameFlow Approach and Its Application to Scrum and Kanban Proposer: Steve Tendon Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: TameFlow is an approach to management that will bring an organization to a state of hyper-performance: a condition whereby a business performs at levels several times greater than its direct competitors. This allows a business to enjoy outstanding financial results, operational excellence and superior innovative capacity.

thomas_guest

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Thomas Guest is an experienced and enthusiastic software developer who likes puzzles, programming, running and noodles. His website is Homepage: Location: Bristol Email: thomas.guest@gmail.com Lessons from the OuLiPo

thomas_sundberg

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Thomas Sundberg is an independent consultant based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, in Stockholm. Thomas has been working as a developer for more than 20 years. He has taught programming at The Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, one the leading technical universities in Sweden. Thomas has developed an obsession for technical excellence. This translates to Software Craftsmanship, Clean C…

thriving_in_a_polyglot_world

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Thriving in a Polyglot World Proposer: Burkhard Kloss Type: Talk Duration: 90 mins Description: In the past, systems were often largely written in a single language (*). Integrating components written in different languages was relatvely hard and uncommon. Now, interfaces between languages proliferate, wildly different languages run the same virtual machine and are frequently tightly integrated.

to_those_whom_much_is_given_much_is_expected

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: To those whom much is given, much is expected... Proposer: Dan Haywood Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: Here's my 'given' for this talk: you're developing some sort of enterprise app, from the outside-in, using a bit of BDD. And you're about to start a new user story.

tom_miles

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Tom Miles graduated from Birmingham University in 2000 with a first class degree in Software Engineering, during which time he also worked at various computer game studios, experiencing many sides of the industry. After a brief dalliance at Codemasters he found his home at Creative Assembly, where he has remained for the past fourteen years. Starting as generalist programmer on the multi award winning Total War franchise on PC, his tenure at Creative Assembly f…

tom_sedge

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Tom Sedge is a freelance Management Consultant and Agile/Lean Coach. He's on a mission to transform people's working lives through simple principles and smart practices that turn slaves of the system into masters of their own work. He wants to create a world where people find work fun, rewarding, meaningful and satisfying.

understanding_transducers_through_python

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Understanding Transducers Through Python Proposer: Robert Smallshire Type: Tutorial with lots of lovely concepts and code Duration: 90 mins Description: Transducers - a portmanteau of 'transform reducers' - are a new functional programming concept introduced into the Clojure programming language. Although transducers are actually pretty straightforward in retrospect, wrapping your brain around them, especially if you're not already a competent Clojureist, …

value_semantics_-_it_ain_t_about_the_syntax

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Value Semantics - It ain't about the syntax! Proposer: John Lakos Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: When people talk about a type as having *value* *semantics*, they are often thinking about its ability to be passed to (or returned from) a function by value. In order to do that, the C++ language requires that the type implement a copy constructor, and so people routinely implement copy constructors on their classes, which begs the question, …

vladimir_vishnevskii

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Vladimir Vishnevskii is a Software Engineer with more than 12 years of experience in the field currently working in the Future Technologies Department of Kaspersky Lab. Among his primary interests are large scale distributed systems development, networking and programming languages.

walking_skeleton

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title:Walking Skeleton Proposer: Thomas Sundberg Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: A Walking Skeleton has been described by Alistair Cockburn as 'a tiny implementation of the system that performs a small end-to-end function. It need not use the final architecture, but it should link together the main architectural components. The architecture and the functionality can then evolve in parallel.' It is also the theme of the popular book 'Growing Objec…

what_s_an_abi_and_why_is_it_so_complicated

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: What's an ABI and why is it so complicated? Proposer: Jonathan Wakely Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: The Application Binary Interface (ABI) for software written in C++ is much more complicated than the equivalent for C. In addition to obvious properties of the architecture such as instruction set and calling conventions, and details of how standard library types are defined, a C++ compiler has to care about details such as how name mangling, …

what_s_up_with_all_the_type_traits

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: What's up with all the type traits? Proposer: Marshall Clow Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: In C++11, the committee introduced a whole bunch of “type traits”, compile-time metafunctions that allow templated code to make decisions based on characteristics of the types used to instantiate a template. In this session, we'll look at the type traits, and work through some code examples where they make a significant difference in the structure/perf…

what_s_wrong_with_sprint_retrospectives_and_how_to_fix_them

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: What's wrong with sprint retrospectives and how to fix them Proposer: Chris Smith Proposer: Michael Upton Type: Workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: Do you often find yourself struck with a sense of deja vu in the retrospective meeting at the end of a sprint? Do you spend your time arguing about things to START, STOP or CONTINUE every single time? Perhaps you feel like you are just highlighting the same old problems, which never get fixed? Has the team …

what_we_talk_about_when_we_talk_about_unit_testing

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: What we talk about when we talk about unit testing Proposer: Kevlin Henney Type: Talk Duration: 90 mins Description: These days unit testing is considered sexy for programmers. Who'd have thought it? But there is a lot more to effective programmer testing than the fashionable donning of a unit-testing framework: writing Good Unit Tests (GUTs) involves (a lot) more than knowledge of assertion syntax.

whatever_happened_to_xp_s_system_metaphor

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Whatever Happened to XP’s System Metaphor Proposer: Nat Pryce Proposer: Duncan McGregor Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Of the original twelve XP practices described in the “white book”, the System Metaphor has seen the least adoption. In this talk I will discuss why this might be so, and relate XP’s notion of metaphor to conceptual metaphors that have been investigated by Lakoff et al.

when_computers_can_see_you

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: When computers can see you Proposer: Dmytro Mindra Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: For a long time humans needed some controllers to interact with computers. We use keyboards, mouses, touch screens, gamepads. But new era is coming when human becomes a controller himself.

wim_heemskerk

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

Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Wim Heemskerk helps teams to be agile in their practices. He is an Agilist, a software craftsman, and a Stoosian. As a hands-on change agent, he stimulates the alignment of process, technology and organisation. Wim connects the dots to translate complementary models and their principles to day to day actions. He works to create lasting change, the kind people say they created and wanted themselves. He supports others on their quests for agility, leadership, great …

windows_phone_8.1_apps_and_the_outside_world_-_let_s_connect_our_apps

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Windows Phone 8.1 apps and the outside world - let's connect our apps Proposer: Gill Cleeren Type: Presentation Duration: 90 mins Description: Windows Phone 8.1 has many improvements to communicate with services. Compared to Windows Phone 8, there's a great number of improvements. Visual Studio now has better options to connect with Azure Mobile Services. We have an easier way to transfer files in the background. We have access to the new WinRT 8.1 HTTPClie…

workshop_elasticsearch

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

Back to 2015-proposals Title: Workshop ElasticSearch Proposer: Michel Grootjans Type: Pair programming workshop Duration: 90 mins Description: Goal Prove that it is not hard to get started with a search engine. Motivation While relational databases have lots of use cases, there are areas where different technologies are a much better fit. One of them is flexible and complex real-time searching. ElasticSearch builds on the trusted and performant base of Lucene and adds lots of compe…

yan_cui

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Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Yan works as a server side developer at Gamesys where he develops scalable backend services for Gamesys's social games on mobile and Facebook. He's a co-author of the upcoming book F# Deep Dives for Manning Publishing. He's a regular speaker on topics such as Aspect-Oriented Programming, F# and NoSQL, and he keeps an active blog at

zsolt_fabok

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Back to 2015-speakers Bio: Zsolt is a developer, a project manager, and a blogger. He has been doing software development for 15 years mostly in Java and Ruby and recently in Scala. He is also an active member of the Agile and Kanban movements, and the founder of the Budapest Lean and Kanban Meetup and the limitedwipsociety.hu groups.