On Friday, Mar 5th, 2010 attended ThoughtWorks TABS (ThoughtWorks Agile Business Series) session on "Agile and Lean Concepts for IT Professionals". It was a great piece of experience. They took all the attendees to the actual Project teams and showed how their teams are agile. Followed by that was the session on "Lean Concepts for IT" by Scott Shaw. It was a really informative session.
Now looking forward for ThoughtWorks Master Class Series talk on "10 Ways to Improve Your Code" by Neal Ford on Wednesday, Mar 10th, 2010.
Today I attended Intel's - Software Developer Supercomputing Conference, 2009. It was a really great conference. Lot of ideas were shared by intel people like how to improve application performance using threads, libraries (like MKL-Math Kernel Library), using their new products, etc. etc.
The session was interactive enough and at the last they distributed Intel's T-shirts :)
Some useful pointers:
whatif.intel.com
go-parallel.com
"Readily available frameworks and APIs can make developers very productive. However, they can also limit developers' imagination".
Summary from the article on Artima Developer => here
"Agile methodology intensely focuses on best practices such as iterative delivery, test-driven development, continuous integration, and agile testing which enables the developer to deliver high quality applications with unprecedented visibility of progress to customers."
[From this article by Roy Singham]
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"Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole Universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work."
- Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam
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