Software development conferences
I spent one day last week at the Excellence in Software Engineering (ESE) Conference in Zurich. This conference is aimed at professionals involved in decisions regarding software development processes, methods and technologies. The 2012 edition proposed three tracks: Agile and Lean, Cloud Computing and Mobile Applications. Presentations were in German …
I have attended recently a interesting conference by Sacha Labourey, the former CTO of JBoss, that presented his new start-up named Cloudbees that aims at providing a “frictionless” platform to develop and run Java (or more precisely JVM-based language) software in the cloud. This conferences provided interesting informations on the …
Steve Ballmer made a presentation in Switzerland this week and I had the chance to be selected as an attendee for his conference. Its topic was the Cloud opportunities offered by Microsoft. His talk was followed by a more technical presentation on Azure by a Microsoft consultant.
The Java User Group Lausanne (JUGL) organized last week an evening where Java quality analysis tools were compared side-by-side, analyzing the same open source project. More than 100 participants came to watch the presentations done by * Coverity * Headway Software * Parasoft * Sonar * XDepend
Kevlin Henney presented a lively talk about the concepts of object and value in software development. Kevlin is a lively and wise presenter, so don’t miss this guy if you have the chance to be at a conference where he speaks. His talk was a kind of philosophical musing even …
The first keynote of the Jazoon conference was presented by Danny Coward. He mentioned that we were close to the 15 anniversary of Java that was officially announced May 23 1995. On the historical side, he also showed us a nice video of James Gosling demonstrating in 1992 a prototype …
