Professional Development Seminars

Programming Without Fear: Best Practices for New and Existing Software

GBCACM Administrator — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:06:01 +0000

When:

Saturday, November 13, 2010 - 8:00am

Venue:

MIT Building E51 (Tang Center)

Lecturer(s):

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!

Seminar in Detail:

SEMINAR TOPICS

Gil Broza helps organizations, teams and individuals implement high-performance Agile principles and practices. His coaching and training clients – over 1,000 professionals in 20 companies – have delighted their customers, shipped working software on time, increased their productivity and decimated their software defects. Beyond teaching, Gil helps people overcome limiting habits, fears of change, blind spots and outdated beliefs, and reach higher levels of performance, confidence and accomplishment.

The Spring Framework: Powering Enterprise Java Development

GBCACM Administrator — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:57:49 +0000

When:

Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 8:00am

Room:

MD-G115

Venue:

Harvard University (Maxwell Dworkin)

Lecturer(s):

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.

Seminar in Detail:

Agenda - Saturday

Algorithms Unleashed! A Practical Approach to Programming Algorithms

Peter Mager — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:15:43 +0000

When:

Saturday, May 9, 2009 - 9:00am

Room:

E51-345

Venue:

MIT Building E51 (Tang Center)

Lecturer(s):

George T. Heineman

It is best suited to moderately experienced programmers, typically with 2-10 years of software development experience.

Seminar in Detail:

Welcome/Sign-in (8:00am-9:00am)

Get your badge, enjoy a continental breakfast, pick out a seat and take advantage of the opportunity to meet people facing the same challenges you are.

Introduction (9:00am-9:10pm)

Announcements for the day

Morning Session (9:10am-12:00 noon

George T. Heineman is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at WPI. His research interests are in Software Engineering.

He co-edited the 2001 book "Component-Based Software Engineering: Putting the Pieces Together". He was the Program Chair for the 2005 International Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering. He is a co-author of the new (October 2008) book "Algorithms in a Nutshell".

2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Peter Mager — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:57:32 +0000

When:

Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 5:00pm

Location:

Boston, MA

Lecturer(s):

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

Russell Doty — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:48:31 +0000

When:

Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 8:00am

Venue:

MIT Building E51 (Tang Center)

Lecturer(s):

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?

Jeff Sutherland

Jeff has been CTO/VP of Engineering or VP of Object Technology a nine software companies. He conceived Scrum Agile development process in four of them and has implemented it company wide in the other five.

He is well known as the Co-Creator of the Scrum Agile Development Process, which influenced the design of the other leading Agile processes.

He is currently doing consulting engagements for Scrum training, certification, assessment and team motivation in the US, Europe and Latin America.

Ron Jeffries