How to sell BDD to the business -

Featuring Daniel Terhorst-North

I don't care how you do it - I just want it better, faster and cheaper and I don't want you to keep bugging me...Software delivery shouldn't be a zero sum game where you have to choose between writing quality software, showing bottom line results and having fun. In this talk, Dan...

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Data in the cloud

Featuring Jim Liddle

Jim Liddle is talking on "Data in the cloud: An evaluation of public cloud storage today, the issues & challenges, and what the future could hold".

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From Scrum to Kanban - how Kanban can increase focus, transparency and productivity

Featuring Wille Faler

A case study and lessons learned from a Scrum team moving to a Kanban way of working.

The talk will contrast some of the differences found between Scrum and Kanban, "sticking points" the team had with Scrum, and how Kanban helped alleviate them.

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Agile / XP Development Game

Featuring Thoughtworks

This is the first official event organized by the GDC (Graduate Development Community). Thoughtworks have agreed to run an exercise they use to help their graduates gain an understanding of how real world commercial development teams work.

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Scala tooling for Eclipse

Featuring Miles Sabin

The scala tooling for Eclipse is based on the seamless integration with the eclipse Java tools. It provides many of the features eclipse users require in order to develop scala based applications.

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JavaFX

Featuring Neil Bartlett

In this session, Neil demonstrates the current progress and preview some up-coming features. He also showed how Java FX can take a modular form using OSGi for runtime which is based on original work by Johan Vos.

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Generic Data Acquisition

Featuring Paul Gibbons

The GDA Project was initiated to build an extensible data acquisition toolkit which would allow easy plug-and-play construction of data acquisition software systems for, in the first instance, SR sources. GDA software is now in day-to-day use on several SRS stations.

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Eclipse Ecosystem

Featuring Ralph Mueller

Ralph Mueller's role at the Eclipse Foundation is focused on growing the Eclipse Ecosystem across Europe.

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CyanIDE 2

Featuring Tracy Miranda

CyanIDE 2 comprises of a powerful set of development tools, based upon the new industry standard Eclipse environment and GCC toolchain. This includes an editor, full GCC compiler, simulator, GDB debugger, memory configurator and in-system programmer.

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Get Rich Quick – Rapid Development of Rich User Interfaces with Swing

Featuring Simon White

Join Simon White, Managing Director of Catalysoft and author of JIDE Charts for this free Skills Matter In-the-Brain session on Swing.

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RIA without the Javascript - GWT and Grails

Featuring Peter Ledbrook

Most browser-based rich user interfaces are based on Javascript or a plugin. Google's Web Toolkit is different because you develop your user interface in Java.

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Testing Grails Applications with Selenium RC

Featuring Robert Fletcher

Selenium Remote Control (RC) is a test tool that allows you to write automated web application UI tests in any programming language against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser.

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Android For Africa: Some Applications in Practice

Featuring Kevin McDonagh

The mobile market is rapidly gaining momentum and has the power to dramatically effect developing countries in the next few years. In this talk, Kevin McDonagh discusses Android's potential to becoming widely ported and the far reaching effects of them upon society.

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Pre droidcon meetup!

Featuring Jeff Gilfelt

Much innovation in the mobile Augmented Reality (AR) space has been happening on Android, as the necessary hardware and API has been available since launch.

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Practical User Experience Design for RIAs

Featuring George Neill

How do Adobe user experience teams approach the creation of innovative Rich Internet Applications built in Flex and AIR? How do they ensure that the solutions they design take into account not only the customer’s business requirements but, crucially, the needs of the end-user?

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ARIA

Featuring Todd Kloots

ARIA is a W3C specification that can be used to dramatically improve the accessibility of DHTML widgets and rich interaction patterns (like drag and drop).

JQuantLib and Financial applications

Featuring Richard Gomes

In todays financial systems, there is a need for intuitive ways to evaluate financial ratios such as earnings per share, bonds and commodities.

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XForms in the insurance industry

Featuring Neal Champion

Over the last few years, the UK insurance industry has been steadily increasing its use of XForms. Its standards body, Origo, has been responsible for devising industry-standard schemas, and for encouraging their use in combination with XForms as a way to improve the accuracy of captured data.

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Deming's Red Bead Experiment

Featuring Benjamin Mitchell and David Joyce

In this session, Benjamin Mitchell and David Joyce, carry out the famous experiment on Red Beads originated by Dr. W. Edwards Deming. This classic learning tool helps illustrate the impact that a system, and traditional management approaches, can have on individuals who work within a system.

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Drunken Build Monkey

Featuring Julian Simpson

For quite some time, system admins have had to develop their own scripts and tools to assist in automating common tasks such as configuration management and system updates. But as networks scale and reach outside their firewall, custom tools become another serious issue to handle.

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