Jazoon 2013 – STJS: Managing JavaScript application complexity
The talk “STJS: Managing JavaScript application complexity” by Alexandru Craciun (LinkedIn) and Nicolas Piguet (LinkedIn) focused on one of the major pains with JavaScript: It’s easy to get started,...
View ArticleJazoon 2013 – Spock: boldly go where no test has gone before
If you look at your tests, do you see a lot of repetitive patterns? Or are you looking for a way to express your intent more easily? Then, Spock might be for you. The talk “Spock: boldly go where no...
View ArticleJazoon 2013 – Spring Framework 4.0 – The Next Generation
In his talk “Spring Framework 4.0 – The Next Generation,” Sam Brannen gave an overview of the new features of Spring 4.0 (slides on slideshare). Spring, which has moved to http://spring.io/, is going...
View ArticleJazoon 2013 – True Git: The Great Migration
Stefan Saasen told the tale how Atlassian migrated from SVN to Git in his talk “True Git: The Great Migration.” (slides on slideshare) Atlassian has resources on their website if you want to know more...
View ArticleJazoon 2013 – Big Data beyond Hadoop – How to integrate ALL your Data
Big Data is being used everywhere. Kai Wähner mentioned a couple of examples in his talk “Big Data beyond Hadoop – How to integrate ALL your Data” (slides on slideshare): rackspace wanted to know from...
View ArticleJazoon 2013 – User Storytelling: The Lost Art of User Stories
In her talk “User Storytelling: The Lost Art of User Stories“, Ulrika Park (blog, slides on slideshare) made a case to become aware of the spreading practice of “snapshot user stories.” As an example...
View ArticleJazoon 2013 – Open Safety For Drones
Drones – fully or partially autonomous aircraft – are the second most wide-spread form of private-owned robots today only challenged by room-cleaners. The current estimation is that there are 500’000...
View ArticleJazoon 2013 – The Economies of Scaling Software
If you’re small, scalability is not an issue. If you’re big, you can plan for it. But what if you wake up one morning and you suddenly find you’ve become the next Google? In his talk “The Economies of...
View ArticleJazoon 2013 – Successful Collaboration in Agile Software Teams
In his talk “Successful Collaboration in Agile Software Teams,” Martin Kropp lists the key factors for collaboration in agile software teams. (slides on slideshare) For me the most important points...
View ArticleJazoon 2013 Overview
Here is the list of blog posts about all the talks that I attended at Jazoon 2013: Day 1 Jazoon 2013 – Test First Saves The World Or how to build a road-worthy, modular car in about three months from...
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