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 running on what will become Java. The interface looks very close to what you get now on an iPhone.

Methods & Tools is the sponsor of a large number of software development conferences, but I cannot find the time and budget to visit them. This year I managed to find some time spend some time at Jazoon, a major Java event located in Zurich, Switzerland. I will present in this blog some of the interesting things that I heard.
Nothing beats experience in software development and usually you learn the important things the hard way.  This presentation is based on an O’Reilly book with contribution from 73 different …

Object orientation (OO) is not a trendy concept these days, but it hasn’t certainly lost it values. The purpose of this book is to integrate the development of object oriented software with the test-driven development (TDD) approach, more specifically in Java. It starts with an introduction to TDD and the tools (Junit, jMock2) that will be used. It describes then in detail the TDD process that is then illustrated by a large example. The book ends with more software testing topics like tests smells or tests readability. A final part …

Here is a list of software development related conferences and events that will take place in March and that have media partnerships with Methods & Tools:
* Enterprise Software Development Conference, March 1-3 2010, San Mateo, USA
* CSM & Scrum in Depth ­ Training with Ken Schwaber, March 3-4, Stuttgart, Germany
* TheServerSide Java Symposium, March 17-19 2010, Las Vegas, USA
* Turku Agile Day, March 17-18 2010, Turku, Finland
* Spring In Finance eXchange, March 18 2010, London, UK
* REConf 2010, March 15-18 2010, Munich, Germany
* …

You didn’t have the time or resources to travel last year and regret that you have missed some conferences? Now you can find a lot of complete conference sessions recording on the Web. My title has obviously a little bit of marketing twist, but I share with you a fair and diversified selection of excellent conferences presentations videos. Here is my list “in no particular order” as they say on TV.