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George_Curelet_Balan

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Niner since 2010

  • Closing Keynote: Big Transitions in Small Steps

    Great talk and great tips on how to deal with software changes! Practical agility tips on changing data, code and system architecture are exemplified starting at minute 20:40.

  • Big Data, Big deal

    Interesting talk on the paradigm shift in dealing with big data.

    My partial time annotations in mmss (MinutesSeconds) format are:

    315 some big data stats

    410 amount of data will increase by a factor of 35 to 40 by 2020

    450 the data deluge, G20 interest into big data

    504 why the sudden explosion of interest in big data?

    650 data is not thrown anymore + trend to analyse social network sentiment data

    730 cost of data storage is down

    755 managing "big data": parallel DB vs NoSQL system

    845 Bing statistics

    900 NoSQL discussion

    957 why NoSQL (Not only SQL)?

    1140 NoSQL is driven by developers

    1220 Reducing time to insight explains interest into NoSQL

    1315 NoSQL vs. SQL approach = agile vs. not

    1325 NoSQL approach

    1405 2 types of NoSQL systems:   

    1. key/value: Mongo DB, Couch DB, Cassandra, Azure tables   

    2. 1525 Hadoop = distributed execution framework & file system

    1625 Two universes of data: structured and not

    1705 paradigm shift from SQL

    1840 what is Hadoop?

  • Agile Acceptance Testing: Mitigating the Risks of Enterprise Software Development

    Great hands-on talk!

  • Project Patterns: From Adrenalin Junkies to Template Zombies

    Great, insightful, thought-provoking and entertaining talk!

    Notable ideas at minutes: 4:00, 10:00, 15:40, 18:00, 19:50, 22:37, 26:25, 28:22, 30:20, 37:20, 39:10, 41:50, 43:45, 45:50, 48:35, 50:30, 53:20, 54:05, 56:40.

  • D³: Start Something on LinkedIn with Miguel Carrasco

    Great interview and insights!

  • Day 1 Keynote - Bjarne Stroustrup: C++11 Style

    Always eager to learn from the best. I'm definitely looking forward to watching Bjarne's interesting talk and the other GoingNative 2012 sessions!

  • YOW! 2011: Damian Conway - Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming Made Easy

    Thank you @Richard.Hein for the link of the exciting Damian's older talk and thank you @Charles for this interview that reveals great insights into programming languages and physics!

    My time bookmark notes in "minute:second" format follows:

    0:24 the reason behind Damian's talk

    2:15 comments on the positronic variable and multiverses simulation in Perl

    3:15 bad habits & 2 diff types of programmers

    6:50 language specialization issue

    8:50 analogy with natural languages

    10:45 current state of PERL

    14:00 question on the push towards the "The general purpose language"

    16:20 programming languages design tradeoffs

    17:20 comments about Damian's keynote address and developers feedback to it

    18:50 programming == manipulating reality with language == kind of same what physicists do

    21:10 math as a language and analogy as a means for communicating it

  • Zen of Architecture

    Great talk!

  • AlignIT Manager Tech Talk: Agile Software Delivery (Part 2 of 2)

    Very interesting discussion on software development agile practices and tools. My time bookmarks in minute:seconds format follow:   

    0:37 elements in SPRINT cadence are defined for good reason. Check the "what" (Sprint review) & "how" (retrospective)

    2:07 smell = what went wrong on how team works (Team Foundation Server (TFS) dashboard can help)

    2:47 bug reactivations is a smell indicator

    3:50 other indicators of smell are shown on TFS dashboard

    5:00 question on team roles and responsibilities in the face of new technology

    7:00 team perception in an agile project (cohesive team size: 6 +/- 3)

    7:30 more than 9 team members ==> too many communication paths for a cohesive team

    8:15 use scrum of scrums for multi-team collaboration

    8:57 Convey law: organizations are doomed to ship software that reflect their structure

    9:55 bring work to teams rather than shuffle people

    10:43 team cohesion works in your favor

    11:00 agile approach in adopting new technology: build golden thread, create prototype

    12:20 @jrozenblit question on agile adoption shift in mentality  

    12:55 Ford assembly line philosophy compared with Toyota

    15:40 what tooling can be used in an agile project?

    16:15 TFS as collaboration hub

    17:07 descriptive vs prescriptive metrics collected without overhead

    18:30 TFS helps collection of metrics

    19:30 question on user stories not perceived (valued) by customers

    22:20 not everything can fit as user story

    24:20 multifunctional, self-managing teams idea... eliminating the waste between developers & testers specific for traditional organizations

    25:25 "no more no repro" game ("it works on my machine" paradigm)

    26:25 reference to VS2010 15 scenarios used to eliminate waste in collaboration between developers & testers 

    27:20 tester - developer collaboration scenario facilitated by TFS

    29:10 reference to resources

  • SPLASH 2011: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt - JavaScript Modules

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