Opening the doors of next year’s edition

Sep 01, 2014 by Alexandru Bolboaca in Announcements

door-open — Photo courtesy of Beth Walsh (Flickr)

Work is already well underway for next year’s unconference. Read on to learn more about what happens when, the confirmed keynote, call for speakers and new website.

Timeline for 2014

We’ve created the first iteration of the plan for this year. In case you were wondering, here are the key milestones between now and the end of 2014:

Sep 03: New website goes live
Sep 03: Call for papers opened
Nov 03: Registrations opened
Nov 10: Program announced

Confirmed keynote

As we announced in May, we already have confirmed one of the keynote speakers for 2015. Simon Brown is a renowned architect and trainer on agile architecture and author of Software Architecture for Developers. With a schedule as busy as his, we’re sure glad it matched our dates for next year’s I T.A.K.E Unconference.

Call for speakers open

We have opened the call for speakers. For next year we decided to keep the topics that you hold dear: architecture, design principles, TDD etc. and also add some new areas that are becoming more and more popular these days: mobile, big data, scaling architecture etc. Visit the page to learn more.

If you know somebody that has something valuable to share with our audience, we’d appreciate it if you shared the link for the call page.

New website

We hope you enjoy the new website we’ve created. Based on your feedback during the past two years, we decided to come up with a new design that is accessible on all mobile devices. We’d like to thank our partners at Gorilla Studio for their effort and creativity with the new design.

We’re really excited for next year’s edition! So far things look great and we are committed to delivering the best edition yet to all our attendees. See you there?

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Do you like the new website? Have any questions about the call for papers or the unconference? Let us know in the comments.

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Show your coding skills while competing with peers like you

May 14, 2015

Do you know how to test systems? Can you point coding issues? Are you open to learning from other people? And, best of all, can you safely clean up existing code and improve its design? These are all core developer skills nowadays, and you’ll greatly benefit from mastering them. Here’s just one more opportunity to do so during I T.A.K.E. Unconference – The Programming Contest. We think you’re going to enjoy it.

Take a set of challenges that will put your skills to the test, overcome them and get the most points to win the contest. Oh, we almost forgot: those getting the most points win gadgets like a drone or an iPad. They are still small rewards compared to the learning, but we’re sure they help :).

How the Programming Contest works?

Well, this is simple. We try to automate the process as much as possible. For the moment the instructions are as simple as:

Register for THE contest on May 28
Solve the challenges
Submit the solutions until May 29, 2 pm

Really cool: you can use ANY of the following programming languages: Java, C#, PHP, C++.

Who will review your code?

The Jury is built of Software Craftsman Fellows from Europe – names soon to be announced. They will grade each challenge you took. There will be just a few challenges, and taking all of them may lead you to the highest score. So the more you solve the closer to win.

Compete with passionate coders at I T.A.K.E. Unconference

Join the crew, compete with developers like you, gain recognition and take the drone home, offered by Mozaic Works. Or the iPad offered by Accenture.

Don’t miss the Programming Contest as well as many other hands-on sessions at I T.A.K.E. Unconference happening in Bucharest on 28-29 May 2015.

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

Jun 15, 2018

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

First two confirmed keynotes

Nov 05, 2014

Happy to announce that Simon Brown and James Lewis are keynotes for the next year edition. Software Architecture and Microservices Architecture are the topics they are masters on.

Simon Brown, award-winning speaker and author of Software Architecture for Developers – a developer-friendly guide to software architecture, technical leadership and the balance with agility. Simon has provided consulting/training to software teams in over 20 countries, ranging from small startups to global blue chip companies. He blogs @ www.codingthearchitecture.com Tweet him @simonbrown

James Lewis, Principal Consultant, introduced evolutionary architecture practices and agile software development techniques to various blue chip companies: investment banks, publishers and media organisations. He blogs @ http://bovon.org More about his take on Microservices here where he worked jointly with Martin Fowler.

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Have any questions about I T.A.K.E. Unconference 2015? Let us know in the comments.

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