Beck on Agile: it’s all about the team
Kent Beck is really a relationship consultant, or should that be counsellor? This is not a bad thing. Beck gave a keynote this morning here at Qcon and talked a bit about techie topics like frequent...
View ArticleAdobe’s chameleon Flash shows its enterprise colours
Duane Nickull is Senior Technical Evangelist at Adobe and co-author of Web 2.0 Architectures which I reviewed recently. He is also Duane Chaos of grunge band 22nd Century and entertained us at the...
View ArticleTechnology trends: Silverlight, Flex little use says Thoughtworks as it Goes...
Today Martin Fowler at Thoughtworks tweeted a link to the just-published Thoughtworks Technology Radar [pdf] paper, which aims to “help decision makers understand emerging technologies and trends that...
View ArticleQCon London 2010 report: fix your code, adopt simplicity, cool .NET things
I’m just back from QCon London, a software development conference with an agile flavour that I enjoy because it is not vendor-specific. Conferences like this are energising; they make you re-examine...
View ArticleQCon London kicks off with call to rediscover Agile, use open source
I’m at the QCon developer conference in London – one of my favourite developer conferences of the year because of its breadth and energy. The opening keynote was from Craig Larman who spoke on doing...
View ArticleReview: Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble and David Farley
I like this book. I know I like it because I find myself wanting to quote from it frequently. It is a book that almost every software developer should read, even if you disagree with parts of it –...
View ArticleSold out QCon kicks off in London: big data, mobile, cloud, HTML 5
QCon London has just started in London, and I’m interested to see that it is both bigger than last year and also sold out. I should not be surprised, because it is usually the best conference I attend...
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