Registration is now open

Nov 06, 2014 by Madalina Botez in Announcements

Registration for I T.A.K.E. Unconference 2015 is now open. Just the first 30 participants will benefit from the Supporter Ticket.

Here are some highlights from the Schedule we have prepared for your high tech delightment:

Architecture – Microservices & Web components are the same with Tim Perry
DevOps – How Docker tricked me in DEvOps with Sebastian Korfmann
Developer’s Life – Power up: Learn how to recharge your energy bar with Andrew Hall
Executable Specifications – Living Documentation Jumpstart with Cyrille Martraire
Hardcore Programming – Clojure, Clojure Script why they’re awesome with Stefan Kanev
Web – Object-Oriented Views with Aki Salmi
Technical Leadership – How to boost development team’s speed with Patroklos Papapetrou
Kata Lounge – Receive some requirements, respect the timebox, and then somebody will review the code with you and give you ideas for improvement
Product Development – You will produce software live

Are you ready to write code, analyze architectures and technical strategy and immerse yourself into this awesome gathering of software passionates?

If Yes, Register to be part of the awesome 2015 I T.A.K.E. Unconference.

Hexagonal Architecture Ports&Adapters with J. Martinsson & R. Sanlaville

Feb 10, 2015

Until recently, layered architecture was the most common way of organizing large applications or modules. We’ve learned from practice that it has limitations:

business rules tend to escape or be duplicated in UI and/or data layer
switching from a database to another is very difficult
adding another UI to the application (eg. mobile or smart client) requires heavy changes
changing a library used by the application with another is often complex and risky

A new architecture style has appeared in the recent years that tackles this problem: Hexagonal Architecture, or Ports & Adapters. Its intent is to allow more flexibility by cleanly separating business rules from everything else.

Johann Martinsson and Rémy Sanlaville have described the basics of Hexagonal Architecture and then shown an example of such an architecture.

Enjoy their 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.

How to successfully manage remote teams

Apr 26, 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.

Hugo Messer, founder of Bridge Global, will join I T.A.K.E Unconference as speaker. In his workshop, the participants will learn more about how to successfully manage remote teams.

#1. SHARE TOP 5 THINGS YOU DID THAT HELPED YOU GROW & BECOME THE PROFESSIONAL YOU ARE TODAY

Starting my own software development firm, offering IT outsourcing
Focusing 10 years on growing the company and learning how to grow a company, manage IT projects and people
Always reading a lot of (management) books to keep educating myself
I attend conferences and trainings regularly
The last years I’ve invested in learning how to share my experience and knowledge with others through speaking and training

#2. What challenges will the participants find solutions to during your session at I T.A.K.E Unconference 2016?

During the session they will find out more about:

common pitfalls within distributed teams > how to make distributed teams work
communicating across cultures, distance and timezones
how to apply agile to distributed teamwork

I’ve shared about the session in this video as well.

#3. What else would you like to share with participants

I’m an entrepreneur and have worked in the software development world for over 10 years. I am a pragmatic person, most of what I learned was by doing it myself. I love starting and building companies and I also love figuring out ways to make things work better. I’m passionate about working with distributed teams, because I believe it enables people to work from anywhere, it enables companies to hire great people everywhere. I’ve seen that people struggle when working in distributed teams and I’ve created the ‘distributed agile path’ to help people with this. I’ve also written 6 books about managing distributed teams.

I love reading books about management, entrepreneurship and spirituality. I also love the stuff of Tim Ferris. My hobbies are cooking, travel and playing with my kids.

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

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

I T.A.K.E Unconference 2017 – Ist day videos & slides

May 22, 2017

The first day of I T.A.K.E Unconference 2017 was a great success: 15 speakers from 9 different countries shared insights and latest trends on 5 different stages.

Live coding sessions, the talks & workshops received an excellent feedback. Also, everyone got involved during the Open Space, Lightning Talks, Product Development Track & Kata Lounge. In the evening, the event continued informally at Dinner & Coding with a stranger.

Videos are available here. Find below the slides from day one. Slides from day 2 are here.

Felienne Hermans – What is science? On craftsmanship for children (Keynote)

Gerard Meszaros – It isn’t testable until it’s tested (Keynote)

Alex Bolboaca – Removing structural duplication

Phillip Krenn – 360° monitoring of your microservices & Se7en deadly deployment sins

Martin Kodok – Powering Interactive Data Analysis with Google BigQuery

Diego Lemos & Vlad Stoian – Extreme Carpaccio: slice thin, code fast!

Thomas Coopman & Michel Grootjans – Playing with projections

Opher Vishnia – Building a multiplayer game server and keeping (most of) your hair

Vlad “Reign” Zelinschi – Progressive Web Apps – The Future

Alexandra Marin – Mobile design patterns

More slides and videos from day 1 coming soon