A series of occasional musings on architecting, securing, optimizing and generating web based applications. By Peter Bell.
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I really wasn't sure what I'd get out of Jared Richardson's keynote on "Career 2.0". I've been running my own businesses for close to twenty years, so I don't find most "career" talks that relevant. In fact, Jareds presentation was one of the clearest, funniest and best structured …
Wow. I present at a lot of conferences round the world so I get to listen to great presenters on a regular basis, but I must admit that NFJS Boston (at which I'm just an attendee) is blowing my mind and we're only a half day into the 2.5 day conference . . .
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I must be the only person who'd never heard of this before. Jared Richardson mentioned it in his keynote tonight at NFJS Boston and I see it was quite the topic of conversation in 2004/5. Clearly I wasn't paying attention . . . Oh well, as Ben Nadel will attest, I've been carrying round …
Last night, the New York chapter of the Agile Project Leadership Network hosted a "Dueling Vendors" evening where both Rally and ThoughtWorks could show how their agile project management tools would handle user stories suggested by the audience. It provided a really great introduction …
In the latest edition of CFArgument available on Brian Rinaldis blog , we argue whether ColdFusion based Object Relational Mappers are a waste of time.
If you want to submit a research paper, practitioner report, tutorial, workshop, panel, Educators' or Trainer's Symposium and Onward! Workshop to ooPSLA 2009 the deadline is tomorrow. I presented a practitioner report at ooPSLA on the SystemsForge software product line and it was a …
In addition to my Requirements and estimating presentation, it's just been announced that I'll also be presenting RAD Object Oriented CF Development at CF United this August in Leesburg, VA. Also, the early bird ends on March 31st, so if you're interested in coming you really might want …
Want to find out what all the fuss about Groovy/Grails is? If you're in new York next week, join us at the inaugural New York Groovy/Grails meetup .
I've wanted to catch a "no fluff just stuff" conference for a while now, so when I saw they were having one in Boston this weekend I figured this was my chance. I'm particularly looking forwards to seeing how other people are using git, learning more about Groovy and Grails and …
I'm looking forwards to the APLN presentation tonight. The presentation ( Duelling Vendors ) is going to be a chance to see Rally Enterprise and Mingle go head to head. Participants will throw out user stories and the vendors will show how easy (or otherwise) it is to capture and manage …
