My personal wrap-up of the NDC 2012
I was at the Norwegian Developer Conference (NDC) 2012 in Oslo. It is one of the best conferences I know in Europe. One reason is, that a lot of alpha-geeks are speaking there.
There were during three days 8 parallels tracks, so you have to manage your program. My program looked like this:
Wednesday, 6.6.2012
Decisions, Decisions, Dan North
Professional Software Development, Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)
Modeling Distributed Systems with NServiceBus Studio, Udi Dahan
Fakes, Isolation Unit Tests, Jonathan “Peli” de Halleux
Social Clairvoyance, Gary Short
Thursday, 7.6.2012
The process, technology and practice of Continuous Delivery, Dave Farley
Busting the BDD myths, Gojko Adzic
Reinventing Softare Quality, Gojko Adzic
Moving from Scrum to Kanban, Rachel Davies
The surprising science behind agile leadership, Jonathan Rasmusson
Dealing with Dynamically-Typed Legacy Code, Micheal Feathers
Deep Design Lessons, Micheal Feathers
Friday, 8.6.2012
Developers: The Prima Donnas of the 21st Century, Hadi Hariri
RabbitMQ Hands On, Alvaro Videla
NDC Cage Match: NodeJS vs. ASP.NET, Rob Conery, Damian Edwards, Jon Galloway
Clojure for the Web, Bodil Stokke
Responsive Web Design, Bruce Lawson
Caring about Code Quality, Venkat Subramaniam
Highlights
One highlight was the speaker Gojko Adzic. I knew him already, because I read his blog. But I didn’t know how entertaining he could be without loose a bit of useful information. I liked also his sarcasm. Another highlight was the rant of Hadi Hariri about not getting things done. But one of the biggest highlights was the keynote by Aral Balkan. It was a fresh clear and motivating keynote, just great.
Conclusion
There were a lot of talks about software quality, which was nice to see. This is a topic which is also very important for myself. But there weren’t that much new fresh talks about the topic itself. The only exception here was the second talk of Gojko.
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