I T.A.K.E. Unconference 2018 Slides & Videos

Jun 15, 2018 by Alexandru Bolboaca in Announcements

You can check out this year’s videos here, on our Youtube Channel.

DAY 1

Alexandre Bauduin – Automation, Aviation Authorities and Mission Critical Software

Bart Szulc – Test Coverage 2.0

Lemi Orhan – Git Anti-Patterns

Johan Peeters & Michael Boeynaems – REST Identity and Access Management

Armagan Amcalar

Alastair Smith – Check That: How a List Can Save Your Life

Philipp Krenn – NoSQL’s Fight for Security

DAY 2

Alexandru Bolboaca

The Journey to Master Code Design

Bart Szulc

Finding Bugs Before Implementation – part I
Finding Bugs Before Implementation – part II

Daniel Carral

What is Good Code? Evaluating Code Quality – slides
What is Good Code? Evaluating Code Quality – Github repository

David Voelkel

Fake It Outside-In TDD Workshop – slides
Fake It Outside-In TDD Workshop – illustrating screencasts

Alin Pandichi – Incremental Feature Development with Web Components

Henk Boelman

Unleash Some AI into the Wild – slides
Unleash Some AI into the Wild – Tendocare.ai video

Crafted Design with Sandro Mancuso

Feb 19, 2015

Sandro Mancuso, the initiator of the London Software Craftsmanship Community, wondered how to structure the code so that it reveals not only the architecture but also its features. In this talk, he shows how to better organize namespaces and domain entities, something he called Interaction Driven Design.

Enjoy his presentation @ I T.A.K.E. Unconference 2014 edition. Curious about 2015 edition?

Check out more about I T.A.K.E. Unconference 2015 or see directly the Schedule.

Journey to Agilandia

Apr 10, 2017

Enjoy the following series of interviews with the speakers, top-notch software crafters from across Europe, joining I T.A.K.E Unconference, Bucharest, 11-12 May. Discover the lessons learned and what drives them to challenge the known path in their field.

Liviu-Stefanita Baiu, Senior Business Analyst and Analysis Discipline Lead, has worked as a full-time Business Analyst for the last 5 years, in a couple of companies, in an Agile environment. He will share at #itakeunconf real-life samples of the techniques and tools and how they helped get along in Agilandia.

#1. Please share with us 5 things you did that helped you grow & become the professional you are today

Some of the most important turning points in my professional life are related to the people – my family and people I’ve met and work with along the way.

√ The set of values I learned from my family is the basement for all I am today, and I will name only a few – fairness, transparency, and loyalty helped me get through various situations I encountered.

√ Along with the above values – assuming responsibility for the things I’ve done allowed me to become trusted and receive honest feedback about my activity. Getting the right feedback (positive or negative – we all have successes and fails) and learning from it – this is something of value for me, and I try not to repeat the mistakes I’ve made along the way.

√ I like to read and I was encouraged to do so – this got me to pay attention to details and try to see beyond words and facade.

√ Making a career switch, thirteen years ago when I joined Transart, was a turning point. And the things I learned there for almost seven years, allowed me to naturally evolve to become a Business Analyst.

√ The colleagues and superiors I had, in my previous employments, contributed something to my evolution – their appreciation, as well as their disapproval, and always their advice.

#2. What challenges will the participants find solutions to during your session at I T.A.K.E Unconference 2017?

My session is nothing about panacea, rather a proposition for the participants to use a set of tools, techniques, and attitude to tackle the complexity of software projects in an Agile environment. Some of them tools will help them understand the product vision, and other can be used for passing it on to the teams they work with. The match between them and each participant’s work environment as well as the value they bring in everyday work is a decision that relies solely on each and everyone from the audience. This toolkit worked for me, it may work for others.

#3. Recommend for the participants 3 sources you find inspiration from and would help them better understand you

I play GO (or wieki) – an ancient Chinese strategy game – unfortunately less often, I enjoy reading Fantasy and Sci-Fi literature, but one of the books I enjoyed reading is a military treaty – Sun Tzu’s Art of War, and one of my favorite authors is Mario Vargas Llosa, from a professional perspective Patrick Lencioni – The Advantage was an inspiration. And to conclude – the best source of information is the team you work with, they will show you what you need to learn so you can work together.

Want to join Liviu and ~300 software crafters from around Europe?

Mutation testing

Apr 28, 2016

Enjoy the following series of interviews with the speakers, top-notch software crafters from across Europe, joining I T.A.K.E Unconference, Bucharest, 19-20 May. Discover the lessons learned and what drives them to challenge the known path in their field.

Nicolas Fränkel, Software Architect with 15 years of experience in a wide range of contexts, University teacher, experienced trainer and book author will join as speaker I T.A.K.E Unconference 2016. In his talk, he will explain how Code Coverage is computed and what its inherent flaw is. Afterwards, he will describe how Mutation Testing works and how it helps pointing out code that is tested but leave out corner cases.

#1. SHARE TOP 3 THINGS YOU DID THAT HELPED YOU GROW & BECOME THE PROFESSIONAL YOU ARE TODAY

I chose to become a programmer, because during my architectural studies, there was a course on POV-Ray, a ray-tracing software where scenes are described with a language
I now avoid not well-understood bash commands after trying to execute a find with exec rm command on a production server and starting deleting the server’s filesystem
I value knowledge sharing since I started teaching a very long time ago

#2. WHAT CHALLENGES WILL THE PARTICIPANTS FIND SOLUTIONS TO DURING YOUR SESSIONS @ I T.A.K.E UNCONFERENCE 2016?

During my talk, Mutation testing to the rescue of your tests, I will not provide a solution but challenge attendees beliefs. Code coverage is the most talked about metric when we speak about quality, but its only quality is that it’s easy to compute. In my code, I will show it means nothing, and provide you something more reliable to work with.

#3. WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE WITH PARTICIPANTS?

I’m a Java geek, through and through, but also ski in winter, run, play squash, sketch nudes, write books, and am currently learning Russian and Kotlin.

Want to join Nicolas and many more software crafters from around Europe?

Join I T.A.K.E Unconference 2016!