Professional Development Seminars

Title Event date Lecturer(s) Abstract
Programming Without Fear: Best Practices for New and Existing Software Saturday, November 13, 2010 - 8:00am Gil Broza

The Legacy Code Trap

Writing new code is one of the joys of programming. Modifying existing code is often one of the nightmares of programming. Unfortunately, you will spend more time modifying existing code than writing new code.

Modifying existing code often results in Whac-A-Mole Programming - you make a change in one part of the code, and a problem crops up in another place. You fix that problem and two more pop up. You quickly find yourself trapped in debug hell!
The Spring Framework: Powering Enterprise Java Development Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 8:00am Ken Sipe, Craig Walls

Spring is a widely used open source framework that helps developers build high quality applications faster. Spring provides a consistent programming and configuration model that is well understood and used by millions of developers worldwide. Spring provides a range of capabilities for creating enterprise Java, rich web, and enterprise integration applications that can be consumed in a lightweight, a-la-carte manner.

This seminar is designed for software practitioners, programmers, and designers. To meet your objectives, you need access to quality resources that explain real solutions using the Spring Framework to solve real problems.

It is best suited to moderately experienced programmers, typically with 2-10 years of software development experience.
Algorithms Unleashed! A Practical Approach to Programming Algorithms Saturday, May 9, 2009 - 9:00am George T. Heineman

This seminar is designed for software practitioners, programmers, and designers. To meet your objectives, you need access to quality resources that explain real solutions using real algorithms to solve real problems.

It is best suited to moderately experienced programmers, typically with 2-10 years of software development experience.
2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 5:00pm June 22-27,2008 Boston, MA

We have arranged for members and regular attendees of our meetings to get a $50 discount from USENIX conference registration fees. Use priority code BOS08 when registering to get the discount. The conference has lots of good tutorials and some outstanding keynote speakers. Detailed information about the USENIX conference is available at 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

A brief review of some highlights from the conference is now online at USENIX 2008 Overview.
Deep Agile Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 8:00am Jeff Sutherland, Ron Jeffries, Jay Conne (moderator)

What has been your experience with software projects? Have you generally been successful? Or do most projects fail to meet predictions for time, cost or functionality? To be blunt, do your projects deliver solid business value and happy and productive users?
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