Presentation: Tweet"Power use of programming tools part 1"

Track: Power Use of Programming Tools / Time: Wednesday 10:20 - 11:10 / Location: Rytmisk Sal, Musikhuset

Dan North: "Awk" sed Vi, "Ar" sed Ed

Thus begins an old, and sadly lost in the mists of Usenet, love story about Vi and Ed (who becomes her "ex"), told entirely in Unix commands. I had no idea when I started learning these arcane (guess how the "dd" command got its name) and cryptic (what about "grep"?) Unix commands how incredibly useful they would become over the next two decades. If your primary OS is Linux or OSX on the desktop, and maybe iOS or Android on the move, you'll find this 40-something year joke ("Unix" itself was a bad pun) has managed to embed itself into every facet of your technological life.

Being comfortable at a shell prompt and having a healthy working knowledge of Unix commands and regular expressions will give you a whole new level of capability. In this fun talk I'll introduce a few commands and shell tricks you should have in your back pocket, and show you how to start taking control of your operating system. If you ask nicely I'll even tell you about the production system I wrote using Makefiles.

Martin Westergaard Lassen: Typeless writing in a strong typed world

Java developers always tend to declare types themselves. Even when using other APIs where types already have been declared. Do we really need to do this redundant work over and over again?
This is an induction to my typeless Java coding lifestyle.

Russell Miles: The Pamphlet of Geb (Abridged), Part 2: Geb for Automation

Synopsis: In this lightning talk, Russ Miles will share his love of Geb as he shows how simple it is to use Geb's little-understood ability to automate tasks.

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Dan North, TweetAgile troublemaker, developer, originator of BDD

Biography: Dan North

Dan writes software and coaches teams in agile and lean methods. He believes in putting people first and writing simple, pragmatic software. He believes that most problems that teams face are about communication, and all the others are too. This is why he puts so much emphasis on "getting the words right", and why he is so passionate about behaviour-driven development, communication and how people learn. He has been working in the IT industry since he graduated in 1991, and he occasionally blogs at dannorth.net.

Twitter: @tastapod

Martin Westergaard Lassen, TweetTrifork

Biography: Martin Westergaard Lassen

Martin is a software developer in Trifork. He recently moved to London to expand Trifork to the United Kingdom where he is working with clients in the eGaming industry. Before that he worked with authentication and medical systems in the Danish public sector.

Martin always have an opinion on tools and technologies and is very keen on trying out new things that will make us better developers. Latest Martin has starting exploring NoSQL databases and has become one of the Riak experts in Trifork.

Twitter: @mwldk

Russell Miles, TweetCo-Author of Head First Software Development

Biography: Russell Miles

Russ Miles wants to help you deliver simpler and better software and solutions.

"An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler; through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore" – Edward de Bono, "Simplicity", 1998

"Complexity is the silent killer of delivering the right software, or change, at the right time; it is singly responsibly for killing many good ideas and companies. A focus on simplicity is the answer, but simplicity is not easy. Through our techniques and practices, I help software delivery organisations and teams ensure their solutions are as simple as possible while not missing the mark by over-simplifying." – Russ Miles, Formation of Simplicity Itself, 2013

Russ Miles is Principal Consultant at Simplicity Itself where he works with his clients to help deliver simple and valuable software and change.
Russ' experience covers almost every facet of software delivery having worked across many different domains including Financial Services, Publishing, Defence, Insurance and Search. With over 16 years experience of consultancy, coaching and training, Russ helps to change all facets of the software delivery process in order to remove unnecessary and costly complexity in everything from developer skills and practices, through applying the right processes for the job at hand, to ensuring that the right change is delivered, be it through software or otherwise.

Russ is also an international speaker on techniques for achieving the delivery of valuable software as well as a published author, most recently of "Head First Software Development" from O'Reilly Media. He is currently working on a new book and set of courses that bring together the practical tools for applying simplicity to your software delivery process, both book and courses to be available by mid-2013.

Twitter: @russmiles