The most enduring software development techniques revealed at QCon London

By tim, on March 8th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

I am in London for the QCon event, a vendor-neutral development conference which I have been fortunate to attend regularly over the last few years.

These events tend to have an underlying theme, which reflects the current thinking of developers and software architects. Each year I hear cogent and thoughtful explanations of why this

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March 8th, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: development, software development | 9 comments

Sold out QCon kicks off in London: big data, mobile, cloud, HTML 5

By tim, on March 7th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

QCon London has just started in London, and I’m interested to see that it is both bigger than last year and also sold out. I should not be surprised, because it is usually the best conference I attend all year, being vendor-neutral (though with an Agile bias), wide-ranging and always thought-provoking.

A few more

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March 7th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: adobe, agile, cloud computing, development, professional, software development, Web, web authoring | Leave a comment

Continuous Integration vs Continuous Delivery vs Continuous Deployment: what is the difference?

By tim, on August 22nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I am reading the excellent book Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble and David Farley. But what is Continuous Delivery and how does it differ from the other “continuous” development methodologies?

It helps to understand that all these methodologies spring from the Agile software development movement, and the expression Continuous Delivery is a quote from the

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August 22nd, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: .net, development, professional, software development, visual studio | Leave a comment

QCon London kicks off with call to rediscover Agile, use open source

By tim, on March 9th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m at the QCon developer conference in London – one of my favourite developer conferences of the year because of its breadth and energy.

The opening keynote was from Craig Larman who spoke on doing lean and agile development – in particular, the Scrum methodology – with large multi-site teams. He means sizeable product groups

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March 9th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: agile, open source, software development | Leave a comment

QCon London 2010 report: fix your code, adopt simplicity, cool .NET things

By tim, on March 12th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

I’m just back from QCon London, a software development conference with an agile flavour that I enjoy because it is not vendor-specific. Conferences like this are energising; they make you re-examine what you are doing and may kick you into a better place. Here’s what I noticed this year.

Robert C Martin from Object

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March 12th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: .net, agile, azure, cloud computing, software development, ubuntu | Leave a comment