ACCU 2016 Schedule

10:00

The D Language, or The Art of Going Meta

Andrei Alexandrescu

Tough Stuff in Modern C++

Stephen Dewhurst

A Day of Deliberate Practice

Jon Jagger
Kevlin Henney

A Practical Introduction to User Story Mapping

Seb Rose

Continuous Delivery with Docker Containers

Mike Long
(slides)

09:30

A Glimpse of Trygve: From Class-oriented Programming to Real OO

Cope
(slides) / (video)

10:30

Break

11:00

How I Went from C++ Programmer to Running My Own Software Product Company (and you can too)

Andy Brice

WG21-SG14: The Story So Far

Guy Davidson
(slides) / (video)

Using the Groovy Ecosystem for Rapid Development on the JVM

Schalk Cronjé
(slides) / (video)

Algorithmic Architecture: Performant Architecture in Evolving Regulatory Environments

Jamie Allsop
(slides)

12:30

Lunch

14:00

Efficient and Accessible? Addressing New Architectures in C++

Robin Williams
(slides)

Proper Inheritance

John Lakos
(slides) / (video)

Waltzing with Branches

Chris Oldwood
(slides) / (video)

Monitor Your Services

Sven Rosvall
(slides)

15:30

Break

16:00

Finding Bugs with Clang at Compile and Run Time

Bernhard Merkle
(video)

Proper Inheritance - Part 2

John Lakos

How to Evolve Your Way Out of a Paper Bag

Frances Buontempo
(slides) / (video)

Swift for the Curious

Phil Nash

Let’s Not Repeat the Mistakes of SOA: 'Micro' Services, Macro Organisational, Architectural and Operational Challenges

Daniel Bryant
(slides)

17:30

Break

18:00

Lightning Talks

09:30

Fastware

Andrei Alexandrescu
(slides) / (video)

10:30

Break

11:00

Using Units, Qantities, and Dimensions in C++14

Peter Sommerlad
(slides) / (video)

Distributed Mutual Exclusion using Proposed Boost.AFIO (asynchronous filesystem and file io)

Niall Douglas
(slides) / (video)

A Taste of Julia

Didier Verna
(video)

Mutation Testing in Python

Austin Bingham
(slides)

Predictive Models of Development Teams and the Systems they Build

Robert Smallshire
(slides)

12:30

Lunch

14:00

Design Patterns in Modern C++

Dmitri Nesteruk
(slides) / (video)

Leaving the Dark Side

Felix Petriconi
(slides) / (video)

Refactoring to Streams

Duncan McGregor
Nat Pryce

The Plural of Anecdote is not Test Suite

David R MacIver

Teaching Modern Software Engineering Practices in an Academic Environment

Robert Chatley

15:30

Break

16:00

C++ Pub Quiz

Olve Maudal

The Story of CyberDojo (so far)

Jon Jagger
(slides) / (video)

Refactoring to Streams

Duncan McGregor
Nat Pryce

Repo-factoring

Charles Bailey
(slides)

17:30

Break

18:00

Lightning Talks

09:30

Balancing Bias in Software Development

Marian Petre

10:30

Break

11:00

Constant Fun

Dietmar Kühl
(slides) / (video)

Benchmarking in C++

Nikos Athanasiou
(video)


Visualize Template Instantiations - Understand your Template Bugs

Peter Sommerlad
(slides) / (video)


What Every C++ Programmer Should Know About Modern Compilers

Sławomir Zborowski
(slides) / (video)


Managing C++ Build Complexity Using Cuppa: A SCons-based Build System

Jamie Allsop
(slides) / (video)

Elegant Filesystem Interactions in Python using pathlib

Johan Herland
(slides) / (video)


Rewrite without Rewriting

Jim Hague
(slides)


Without Warning: Keeping the Noise Down in Legacy Code Builds

Guy Bolton King
(slides) / (video)


Writing Libraries is Terrible

David R MacIver
(video)

A Meta-pipeline for Generating Continuous Delivery Pipelines for Microservices

Hilverd Reker
Steve Freeman

Code History Analysis and Visualization

Dmitry Kandalov
(slides)

12:30

Lunch

14:00

STL Algorithms – How to Use Them and How to Write Your Own

Marshall Clow
(slides) / (video)

Declarative Thinking, Declarative Practice

Kevlin Henney
(slides) / (video)

Property Based Testing Hands-on in Haskell or Javascript

Willem van den Ende
Marc Evers
(slides)

"Where xDD went wrong", "Some more of xDD’s greatest mistakes", and "What is this xDD thing anyway?"

Seb Rose

Snowden and the Snoopers – a.k.a. One persons’s surveillance state is another’s sensible precaution

Burkhard Kloss
(slides)

15:30

Break

16:00

Become a GDB Power User

Greg Law
(slides) / (video)

Improving Performance and Maintainability in Modern C++

J Daniel Garcia
(video)

Property Based Testing Hands-on in Haskell or Javascript

Willem van den Ende
Marc Evers

Go! Steady. Ready?

Thomas Guest

Software Architecture: Living Structure, Art or Just Hopeful Arrangements of Bytes?

Charles Tolman

17:30

Break

18:00

Lightning Talks

19:30

Conference Supper

09:30

C++ Concepts "Lite" in Practice

Roger Orr
(slides) / (video)

Reduce: From Functional and Heterogeneous Programming to C++17 Fold Expressions

Nikos Athanasiou

The Distributed Version Control Revolution

Charles Bailey
(slides) / (video)

Small Steps towards Better Technical Presentations

Dirk Haun
(slides)

Refactoring: 25 Years On

Chris Simons
(slides)

11:00

Break

11:30

Extending and Wrapping C and C++ with Python

Diego Rodriguez-Losada
(video)

Concurrent Thinking

Anthony Williams
(slides)

Writing Snake in 6 Programming Languages

Andy Balaam

Big Data Analytics – A Primer for the Adventurous

Astrid Byro
Ari Mitra
(slides)

Moving your Grid to the Cloud – or "Hardware, Who Needs Hardware?" or "Architecture Revisited"

Burkhard Kloss
(slides)

13:00

Lunch

14:30

How to Apply Engineering Practices to Embedded Software Development

Raphael Meyer
(slides) / (video)

Seven Languages in 90 Minutes

Michel Grootjans
(video)

Keeping Your CI–CD Pipeline as Fast as it Needs to Be

Abraham Marín Pérez
(slides) / (video)

Test Driven Specification – A Gentle Introduction to TLA+ (finding concurrency bugs before you write code)

Dominic Robinson

ACCU Issues

ACCU Committee

16:00

Break

16:30

Comfort Zone

Anna-Jayne Metcalfe
(slides) / (video)

17:30

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