Jazoon Call for Papers

Published November 30th, 2009 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment

Jazoon is a major Java-focused conference that will take place in Zurich (Switzerland) during the June 1 to June 3 period. Methods & Tools is happy to be a media partner for Jazoon. Attending to this year conference, we have seen many interesting presentations, like Refactoring of Large Software Systems revised that will be presented in an article of our Winter PDF issue.

The clock is now running towards the submission deadline for the Jazoon’10 Call for Papers. Java and Open Source Experts from all over the world are called upon to actively participate in the steering of the program of Jazoon’10.

Proposals for short (20 minutes) and long talks (50 minutes) can be submitted within the scope of the technical sessions until 3 February 2010. Presentations can be held individually or together with a co-speaker. Speakers profit from preferential terms – details to be found here.

Proposals for Jazoon Rookie (20 minutes) can be submitted until 4 April 2010. Participating criteria and benefits can be found here.

December Software Development Conferences

Published November 25th, 2009 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment

Here is a list of software development related conferences that will take place in December and that have media partnerships with Methods & Tools:

* Lean & Kanban eXchange, December 1 2009, London, UK

* droidcon London, December 2 2009, London, UK

* Ruby on Rails eXchange, December 3 2009, London, UK

* Cloud & Grid eXchange, December 7-8 2009, London, UK

* Groovy & Grails eXchange, December 9-10 2009, London, UK

* Flex on Java eXchange, December 14 2009, London, UK

* Open Source in Finance eXchange, December 15 2009, London, UK

* Spring in Finance eXchange, December 16 2009, London, UK

* Domain Driven Design eXchange, December 18 2009, London, UK

Find more conferences on SoftDevConferences.com

More Procedures in Software Configuration Management

Published November 23rd, 2009 Under Numbers | Leave a Comment

Our last poll examined how software configuration management (change management / version control) is performed by organisations. Is it an informal activity or performed with formal procedures that are validated by an automated tool?

2009 2006
No formal procedure and no tool 13% 15%
A formal procedure but no tool. 11% 10%
A tool but no formal procedure 17% 26%
A formal procedure and a tool 36% 49%
Continuous integration 23%

Participants: 271 (346 in 2006)

Ending date: November 2009 (April 2006) Read more

Linkopedia November 2009

Published November 12th, 2009 Under Links | Leave a Comment

AltNETpedia

Software Process and Measurement Cast

COBOL on Cogs

Perspectives – One Size Does Not Fit All

Article: Mastering Grails: Mock testing with Grails

Article: The Tao of Screen Design

Article: The Clojure programming language

JRaptor – a Java MVC framework

Approval Tests – an assertion-based testing framework for C#, Java, Ruby

Video: Talking Architects with Len Bass

Video: Test Driving GUI with Approval Tests

Video: Building Applications in the Cloud

Find more interesting links on the software development links directory, the software development tools directory, the software development articles directory, the software development blogs aggregator or the software development videos directory.

Report on the Agile Tour in Geneva

Published November 4th, 2009 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment

I participated on October 12 to the Geneva stage of the Agile Tour which was a great success. There were more than 100 participants announced to this free event. Here is a small feedback for three interesting presentations that I attended. Read more