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
Software Process and Measurement Cast
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