ACCU 2006 Schedule

Tuesday 18th April - Tutorials

	Ballroom 1	Ballroom 2	Cartoon
10:00	Agile Software Development for Succeeding with large Projects Jutta Eckstein, Nico Josuttis	Reliable C++ Angelika Langer	Python for Programmers John Pinner

Timetable for Wednesday 19th April

	Ballroom 1	Ballroom 2	Restaurant	Cartoon	Worcester
09:30	The Future of Python Guido van Rossum
10:30	Break
		Python track
11:00	Five Considerations in Practice Kevlin Henney	A Roundup of PyCon Steve Holden	Exploring Interfaces - A C++ Perspective Mark Radford	XPath2, XSLT2 and XQuery - The 3 Legs of XML Searching and Transformation Jez Higgins	Applications with GUIs - programming and design Alan Lenton
11:45	Five Considerations in Practice Kevlin Henney	Error Handling With Recovery Michael Hudson	Exploring Interfaces - A C++ Perspective Mark Radford
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Healing the Architecture Klaus Marquardt	PyQT 4 Phil Thompson	How Metacode and Compile-Time Reflection Could Change Your View of C++ Detlef Vollmann	Data beyond its application Tony Barrett-Powell	Multithreading 101 Tim Penhey
15:30	Break
16:00	SOA - From dust to dawn Nico Josuttis	PyPy - a progress report Michael Hudson	Managing Generative Programming Schalk Cronje	Cross-Platform Issues With Floating-Point Arithmetic in C++ Günter Obiltschnig	How Fitnesse Helped Me Survive a Legacy C++ Project Sam Saariste
16:45	SOA - From dust to dawn Nico Josuttis	Lightning Talks	(track finishes at 16:45)	Apply testing patterns to the development life cycle Dr. Rix Groenboom	Threaded Programming with C++ Andreas Aardal Hanssen
17:30	Break
18:00	Blackwells Reception

Timetable for Thursday 20th April

	Ballroom 1	Ballroom 2	Restaurant	Cartoon	Worcester
09:30	Software Development: a social activity with technical practices Helen Sharp
10:30	Break
		Python track			Distributed Collaboration track
11:00	When C++ Hits the Hardware Scott Meyers	The Django Web Application Framework Simon Willison	Using Shared Libraries with C++ Thomas Witt	Embedding Domain-Specific Languages in Java and C# Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce	Distributed Collaboration Astrid Osborn
11:45	When C++ Hits the Hardware Scott Meyers	Easy web application development with CherryPy Remi Delon	Using Shared Libraries with C++ Thomas Witt		Distributed Collaboration Astrid Osborn
12:30	Lunch
13:00	Micosoft sponsored session: Using Win32/WinFX Integration to Light-Up on Windows Vista David Burggraaf
14:00	Working with C++ as if Unit Testing Mattered Michael Feathers	Python Web Framework Templating Systems Compared and Contrasted Chris Withers	Typeless Functor Bronek Kozicki	Only the Code tells the Truth Peter Sommerlad	Experience of a distributed software project for protein science Chris Morris
14:45		Metadata and models in Python Andy Robinson	Typeless Functor Bronek Kozicki	Only the Code tells the Truth Peter Sommerlad	Herding Hedgehogs Alan Lenton
15:30	Break
16:00	Working with C++ as if Unit Testing Mattered (continued) Michael Feathers	Financial Programming in Python Andrew Thompson	Panel discussion: full details TBA	Simple, Simplest, or Simplistic? Giovanni Asproni	Agile with Offshoring Jutta Eckstein, Nico Josuttis
16:45		Financial Programming in Python Andrew Thompson	(track finishes at 16:45)	Simple, Simplest, or Simplistic? Giovanni Asproni	Agile with Offshoring Jutta Eckstein, Nico Josuttis
17:30	Break
18:00	Grumpy Old Programmers Nico Josuttis			Programming Competition Tim Penhey

Timetable for Friday 21st April

	Ballroom 1	Ballroom 2	Restaurant	Cartoon	Worcester
09:30	C++0x, Concur, and the Concurrency Revolution Herb Sutter
10:30	Break
				Dynamic Languages track	Evolution of C++ track
11:00	Double-Checked Locking, Threads, C++ Compiler Optimizations, and More Scott Meyers	Retrospectives - Project Success with continuous Course Corrections Jutta Eckstein	Effective Version Control Pete Goodliffe	Java Script ... but only with Milk and Sugar Jan-Klaas Kollhof	Evolution of C++ Francis Glassborow
12:30	Lunch
14:00	A Design Rationale for C++/CLI Herb Sutter	Understanding Security With Patterns Peter Sommerlad	Coding guidelines: Do they deliver any benefit? Derek Jones	Agile development and prototyping with Ruby and Rails Dan North	C++'s Concept of Concepts Dietmar Kuehl
15:30	Break
16:00	The Keyhole Problem Scott Meyers	Gumption Traps: Debugging Team Motivation Rachel Davies, Ivan Moore, Duncan Pierce	Project Saving Debugging Tricks and Tips Mark Bartosik	...Grooving with the JVM Russel Winder	TR1 Alisdair Meredith, Kevlin Henney
16:45	The Keyhole Problem Scott Meyers		(track finishes at 16:45)	...Grooving with the JVM Russel Winder	TR1 Alisdair Meredith, Kevlin Henney
17:30	Break
20:00	Speakers' Dinner

Timetable for Saturday 22nd April

	Ballroom 1	Ballroom 2	Cartoon	Worcester	St. Johns
09:30	Concurrency Requirements Hubert Matthews
10:30	Break
11:00	Producing Better Bugs - a satirical look at bugs in software Roger Orr	Changing your organization Allan Kelly	C# Traps and Tips, and Coming Delights Jon Jagger	Buy, build or a bit of both Seb Rose	Practical Multi-language Generative Programming Schalk Cronje
12:30	Lunch
14:00	STL Patterns: A Design Language of Generic Programming Kevlin Henney	Get Testing! Paul Grenyer and Steve Love	Test Driven Development with C# and NUnit Richard Howells	Context as the Deciding Factor in IT Decision Making Allan Kelly-MacGregor	Developing a generative library for hard problems Oliver Kullmann
15:30	Break
16:00	Endnote: Curly Bracket Family Fortunes

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