Specification by Example workshops
I’m speaking here:
- Testing and Finance, London, 17 May
- NDC, June 16-18 Oslo
- Agile Testing Days, November 19-22, Potsdam, Germany
qcon Archive
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QCon 2009: No more Lego analogies, please!
Posted on March 11, 2009 | 4 CommentsWhile presenting the Pragmatic Real-World Scala talk at QCon London 2009, Jonas Bonér introduced functional programming as something that ultimately leads to more usable code and compared it to Lego, in a sense that you can take functions, combine them easily to get new functions etc. Sounds familiar? OO anyone?... -
QCon London 2009: MOM interoperability – Finally!
Posted on March 11, 2009 | 3 CommentsDuring the AMQP in Action session at the QCon 2009 conference in London the speakers presented what seems to be a very interesting solution for probably the biggest issue in messaging middleware today– interoperability. Message oriented middleware (MOM) is often standardised at the API level (such as JMS) but individual... -
QCon London 2009: Is software engineering?
Posted on March 11, 2009 | 2 CommentsSir C.A.R. Hoare presented an opening keynote at QCon London 2009, titled “The Science of Computing and Engineering of software”. During the keynote, he tackled two questions that keep arising in the software development community: is computing a science and is software an engineering discipline? -
Photo of the day: It looks like you’re writing a framework
Posted on December 5, 2008 | 18 CommentsJohn Rae shot this at QCon SF 08.

