Archive for the ‘Conference’ Category

prio. conference 2010 (2010-6-21)

In case you haven’t heard it yet, I’m going to give 2 talks at this years prio. conference.

I’m very exited to be part of this years speaker line up (though the quality of the line up is a bit intimidating ) Both talks will be on the 20th [...]

.NET Open Space Süd Retrospective (2010-6-21)

I haven’t blogged in a while, mostly because time has become such a limited resource in the last weeks or to be honest actually months. Blogging, my current project, workshops, the F# Bookclub, preparation of the next conference appearances and of course xUnit.BDDExtensions all want a piece of that cake. Finding the right balance between [...]

Command Query Separation (2008-11-20)

Does this sound familiar to you? From time to time someone delivers you answers to questions that have been on your mind for quite a while. You didn’t find an answer on your own and most of the people you talked with either didn’t care or hadn’t satisfying answers for you. When you finally hear [...]

Quote of the day (2008-11-19)

Enjoy the following comment I’ve heard today in the Domain Specific Languages track:
. . .  XML is data dressed up as a hooker . . .

Thoughts on (J / Iron)Ruby (2008-11-18)

Today I attended a tutorial about JRuby and JRuby on Rails. It was presented by Ola Bini from Thoughtworks, who did the more general part on (J)Ruby and Nick Sieger from Sun, who did the Rails stuff. What can I say, it was really cool.
I’ve been curious about Ruby for quite a while now, mostly [...]

Sessions I plan to visit at QCon SF 08 (2008-11-17)

Monday (Tutorials): Stuart Charlton: "Cloud Computing for Developers and Architects" Ola Bini & Nick Sieger: Getting started with JRuby and JRuby on Rails
Tuesday (Tutorials):
Neal Ford & Martin Fowler & Rebecca Parsons: "Domain Specific Languages" [...]