Spec by Example mentoring programme
Specification by example mentoring is aimed at individuals who know the basics, want to improve and need support, knowledge and ideas not available online or through training courses. First group starts 1 June.
Archive for March, 2009
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World Agile Qualifications Board
Posted on March 31, 2009 | 6 CommentsAgile sells. It’s the new black. Companies are trying to roll out agile on a huge scale and even buy it as a software package. Teams sell themselves as agile as if it was the single guarantee of success that customers need, and people seem to fall for that. As... -
The next opensource .NET Evening: NBehave and Iron Ruby
Posted on March 30, 2009 | No CommentsThe next opensource .net evening in Skills Matter will be on the 15th of April, with two talks: David Ross: NBehave NBehave is a .NET tool for Behaviour-driven development (BDD), an evolution of test-driven development (TDD) and acceptance-test driven design. It shifts the vocabulary from being test-based to behaviour-based, and... -
Slides from my SQL Bits talk on Effective Database TDD
Posted on March 28, 2009 | No CommentsThanks for attending the talk today! You can download the slides from here. -
Compression and performance tricks for SQL Server 2008
Posted on March 28, 2009 | No CommentsAt the SQLBits Goes Forth conference in Manchester today, Ramesh Meyyappan demonstrated impacts of some new SQL Server 2008 features on query performance. One topic he tackled in particular is compression, offering advice when to apply it and when not to apply it. -
If you’re interested in what I was up to over the last few months
Posted on March 26, 2009 | 2 CommentsOn 30th of March, at the Skills Matter offices in London, I’ll be presenting an experience report from a recent project of a multiplayer games server deployed on cloud infrastructure using a computing grid for processing. The talk will be about architectural and deployment challenges, talk what was really good,...
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