CONTENTS: ** EVENTS ** EUROPE ** ** BOOKS ** ** EVENTS ** USA ** ** CALL FOR SPEAKERS ** EUROPE ** CALL FOR SPEAKERS ** USA ** HUMOUR ** ** OTHER INFORMATION - MAGAZINES, WHITEPAPERS ... **
******************************** ** EVENTS ** EUROPE ** ********************** Enterprise Architect Conference Arts Hotel, Barcelona - Nov 6-8 2005 http://www.ftponline.com/conferences/eas/barcelona/ Quote ref: EASMC *** Architectural Reference Model for Enterprise Applications 2 Day Course. Jan 2006 London UK www.ratio.co.uk/ARM%20-%20Course%20Outline.pdf email: info AT ratio.co.uk See related article: http://www.ftponline.com/ea/magazine/summer2005/features/mcollinscope / *** 8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems 23 - 27, May 2006 Paphos - Cyprus http://www.iceis.org/cfp.htm *** Fourth International Symposium on Formal Methods for Components and Objects (FMCO 2005) DATES 1 - 4 November 2005 Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://fmco.liacs.nl/fmco05.html ** BOOKS ** *********** *** Essential Skills for Agile Development *** This book has an elegant yet highly effective minimalist style. Rather than long theoretical discussion the book does what it does by example - and there's plenty of example code given. Overall the book covers many topics and issues related to agile software development, including: keeping code fit; handling inappropriate references; seperating database, UI and domain logic; unit testing and acceptance testing amongst others.The reason this book is to be recommended to developers, is that even if you're not doing full on "agile" development, there's still plenty of useful material in it. The lack of hype is also refreshing - the book focuses on examples and shows good solutions. You should get it! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/- /9993776726/ratiogroupltd-20/qid=1128944604/sr=8- 1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-3185742-7805624? v=glance&s=books&n=507846 *** Agile Development with Iconix Process *** " because of this, we have been able to consistently deliver great software based on the original core time-after-time " "the authors identify an `essential' list of agile practices to follow, including aggressive testing and frequent small releases " " it is indeed rare for this level of detail to be given to a single example " " finally a real world example with real-world solutions " (extracts from amazon.com) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590594649/ratiogroupltd-20? creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1 *** Agile and Iterative Development, A Manager's Guide *** Using statistically significant research and large-scale case studies, noted methods expert Craig Larman presents the most convincing case ever made for iterative development. Larman offers a concise, information-packed summary of the key ideas that drive all agile and iterative processes, with the details of four noteworthy iterative methods: Scrum, XP, RUP, and Evo. This book is a must if you need to get a grip on the spectrum of agile development techniques out there. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/- /0131111558//ratiogroupltd-20/qid=1128944877/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002- 3185742-7805624?v=glance&s=books ** EVENTS ** USA ** ******************* 29th Internationalization & Unicode Conference March 6-8, 2006 San Francisco, California, USA http://www.unicodeconference.org/IUC29call *** SD WEST 2006 Santa Clara Convention Center Santa Clara, CA March 13-17, 2006 http://www.cmpevents.com/SDw6/a.asp?option=C *** 15th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE-2006) Los Angeles, California July 6-8, 2006 http://www.cnsqa.com/spw2006/jsp/html/spw/callforpapers.jsp *** Software Test and Performance Conference http://www.stpcon.com/ NOVEMBER 1-3, 2005 ROOSEVELT HOTEL New York City *** IEEE Software Architecture Conference. (WICSA) November 6-9, 2005 http://sunset.usc.edu/~softarch/wicsa5/ ** CALL FOR SPEAKERS ** EUROPE ****************************** Call for Speakers Software Developer Conference May 15 and 16, 2006 Papendal Convention Center Arnhem, The Netherlands http://www.sdc.nl/ ** CALL FOR SPEAKERS ** USA *************************** SD BEST PRACTICES 2006 Hynes Convention Center Boston, MA September 11-14, 2006 Call for Abstracts will open January 2006 http://www.sdexpo.com/ *** Call for Papers International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis Portland, Maine July 17-20 2006 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~gibson/issta/cfp.html *** Call for Papers 15th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering Software Process Change - Meeting the Challenge (SEDE-2006) Los Angeles, California July 6-8, 2006 http://www.cnsqa.com/spw2006/jsp/html/spw/callforpapers.jsp ** HUMOUR ** ************ "It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." -Dijkstra ""The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change." - FORTRAN manual for Xerox computers "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup Star Trek: Riker [puzzled] - What the hell is Microsoft? Data [turns to explain] - Allow me to explain. We will send this program, for some reason called Windows, through the Borg command pathways. Once inside their root command unit, it will begin consuming system resources at an unstoppable rate. Picard: - But the Borg have the ability to adapt. Won't they alter their processing systems to increase their storage capacity? Data: Yes, Captain. But when Windows detects this, it creates a new version of itself known as an upgrade. The use of resources increases exponentially with each iteration. The Borg will not be able to adapt quickly enough. Eventually all of their processing ability will be taken over and none will be available for their normal operational functions. Picard: - Excellent work. This is even better than that unsolvable geometric shape idea. ** OTHER INFORMATION ** *********************** OBJECTIVE VIEW ISSUE 8 - AGILE DEVELOPMENT SPECIAL Kent Tong on Turning Comments into Code Elfreide Dustin on Unit Testing Tim Mackinnon on Agile Project Retrospectives Scott Ambler with the latest update on Agile Model Driven Development Doug Rosenbert and Matt Stephens on Combining UML with TDD see www.ratio.co.uk/objectiveview.html *** Call for Award Nominations - 28th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'2006) http://www.isr.uci.edu/icse-06/ *** Want your event listed? email info AT ratio.co.uk - no charges are applied, this is a service we offer to the software development community. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list