Alfresco DevCon – Sharepoint
Sharepoint was mentioned a lot more often at the conference than I would have expected. Alfresco recognise Sharepoint as their big competition, although during the second keynote John Newton took a slightly more progressive stance, stating that in subsequent versions … Continue reading
Alfresco DevCon
The European leg of the Alfresco developer conference was a 2 day event held in Paris (20th-21st October) which I had the benefit of attending. Overall impressions were that it was well received by everybody there, the technical sessions hit … Continue reading
Microblogging, an ongoing conversation
The moment I got out of our meeting with the client today, I performed the first of my usual mobile-OCD rituals: I checked out the Surevine Yammer updates. The iPhone Yammer App reported 22 in just 2 hours, which is … Continue reading
Day 2 in the Big Brother House (or at SPA 2010): 4-hours of hands-on Scala
A while ago I was pretty convinced Scala would be the next Java. I’m now less sure and it’s mainly down to (a) skills – there’s a lot of Java about; and (b) [and very much related to (a)] there … Continue reading
Monday afternoon at SPA 2010: Patterns in build and deployment followed by a BoF
This was a pretty rambling session lead by Julian Simpson. His site contains lots of build and deployment related patterns and best practice. Unfortunately I didn’t find this session helpful but picked up the following: Make deployment an atomic operation … Continue reading
Next up at SPA 2010: A talk by a real architect
Morris Mitchell is a renowned architect. He talked about patterns a fair bit. Interesting but probably the least relevant talk unfortunately, as I had high hopes given the Christopher Alexander reference early in the talk. A couple of interesting parallels … Continue reading
Improving Software Development Across Government 2-Day Conference
On Thursday 29th April 2010, I attended the above. As well as a number of government speakers, Ivar Jacobson and Scott Ambler gave keynotes on practices and agile at scale respectively. Software Engineering Practices I’ve heard this talk many times. … Continue reading
First workshop at BCS SPA 2010: REST
The first workshop I attended covered REST (Respresentational State Transfer) or, and these are my words, using the relatively simple vocabulary of verbs provided by HTTP, e.g. POST and GET, to provide a simple protocol to make requests and return … Continue reading
