ACCU 2011 Schedule

Room

09:30

Optimizing for Happiness

(Tom Preston-Werner) University

10:30

Coffee break

11:00

Mastering Git Basics

(Tom Preston-Werner)

Distributed Computing 2.0

(Filip van Laenen)

Becoming a Better Programmer

(Pete Goodliffe)

Establishing and Scaling Offshore Testing for Agile Teams

(Chris Duro)

Stopping the rot - putting legacy C++ under test

(Seb Rose)

11:45

12:30

Lunch

14:00

Some objects are more equal than others - a look at the many meanings of equality, value and identity

(Steve Love, Roger Orr)

Distributed Version Control Systems - under the bonnet

(Jim Hague)

Meta-circularity... and vice-versa

(Didier Verna)

ComputErl - Erlang-based Framework for Many Task Computing

(Michal Ptaszek)

Agile C++ through Advanced IDE Features

(Peter Sommerlad)

14:45

15:30

Coffee break

16:00

CPU Caches and Why You Care

(Scott Meyers)

Pattern Writing Workshop

(Allan Kelly, Klaus Marquardt)

Facilitation Patterns and Antipatterns

(Steven List)

Strategies for 24/7/365 SaaS

(Jeff Kotula)

Thinking About Code

(Thomas Witt)

16:45

17:30

Break

18:00

Lightning talks

20:30

Microsoft Kinetik Challenge (sponsored by Redgate Software)

Room

09:30

Good Enough is the enemy of the Good

(Nat Pryce, Steve Freeman) University

10:30

Coffee break

11:00

Farewell to Disks: Efficient Processing of Obstinate Data

(Diomidis Spinellis)

Diet Templates

(Jonathan Wakely)

Writing web UI in Test-first fashion with GWT

(Uberto Barbini)

Code Entropy and Physics of Software

(Olve Maudal, Jon Jagger)

Learning from the past: what might the next Java or .NET look like?

(Jon Skeet)

11:45

Multicore is dead; Long live Multicore!

(Stephen Blair-Chappell)

12:30

Lunch

14:00

Key practices to cope with complexity

(Kevlin Henney, Klaus Marquardt)

What's Wrong With Requirements?

(Tom Gilb)

A Common Lisp Tutorial: from the very basics to the power of macros

(Didier Verna)

Solid C++

(Olve Maudal)

Writing Software for Women: What do Women Want?

(Emily Winch)

14:45

15:30

Coffee break

16:00

Generic Programming with C++0x

(Dietmar Kühl)

The Requirements 10 step

(Allan Kelly)

A Common Lisp Tutorial: from the very basics to the power of macros

(Didier Verna)

Using xUnit As a Swiss Army Testing Toolkit

(Chris Oldwood)

Growing a language… and drive a Lego/NXT robot

(Bernhard Merkle)

16:45

17:30

Break

18:00

Lightning talks

19:00

Break

20:30

Conference dinner

Room

09:30

Lightning keynotes

10:30

Coffee break

11:00

C++ for Marine Streamer Positioning and Navigation

(Mike Long)

A practical introduction to common open source licenses

(Alison Lloyd)

The Man Page of the Warrior of Light

(Semen Trygubenko)

Overview of Cloud Computing

(Sven Rosvall)

Choosing patterns for your parallel program

(Anthony Williams)

11:45

Simple Software - Regain Control through Decremental Development

(Peter Sommerlad)

Facilitating LEAN Problem Solving Sessions

(Astrid Byro)

12:30

Lunch

14:00

Software Naturalism - Form and Function in Untamed Code Bases

(Michael Feathers)

You're Going To Have To Think! Why [Insert Algorithm Here] Won't Cure Your Calculus Blues.

(Richard Harris)

Agile Team Excellence - supporting Agile in a 10,000 person organisations

(Paul Field)

Continuous Integration - Does it Scale?

(Dirk Haun)

User-centred design in agile development

(William Hudson)

14:45

15:30

Coffee break

16:00

The Art of Productive Laziness

(Peter Taylor)

Just Keep Sending The Messages

(Russel Winder)

What is in a good contract? Designing interfaces for distributed systems.

(Schalk Cronje)

Overcoming Resistance to New Ideas / Breaking through the brick wall

(Rachel Davies)

SELECT * FROM databases WHERE query_language <> 'SQL'

(Gavin Heavyside)

16:45

17:30

Wrap up