2015

Documentation for software developers
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.
Peter Hilton is a software developer, writer, speaker, trainer, and musician. Peter’s professional interests are business process management, web application development, functional design, agile software development, and documentation. He will present at #itakeunconf a session about documentation for software developers.
#1. Please share with us 5 things you did that helped you grow & become the professional you are today
The things that helped me grow the most were starting to do something that I later developed a lot further: travel, presenting, writing, management, and coding. These influences on my professional development were taking overseas assignments and later moving permanently to another country, presenting to colleagues and later at conferences, writing a tech blog and later a published book, leading a team and later taking on a management role. As for coding, the most important thing was to never-never give it up and always have something new to learn.
#2. What challenges will the participants find solutions to during your session at I T.A.K.E Unconference 2017?
My workshop will help participants address the hardest challenge in software documentation: learning how to take the first step from no documentation at all to the minimum viable documentation. The hard part is understanding what you can do, without wasting time on too much documentation.
#3. Recommend for the participants 3 sources you find inspiration from and would help them better understand you
iMy passion is figuring how to explain software and make it maintainable. I was originally inspired to learn more about this after reading Steve McConnel’s book Code Complete, as well as many other books about software development. I discuss my favourite aspect of making code understandable in my Software Engineering Radio interview on naming things.
I’ve always found talking to other people the best way to develop and refine my own ideas. This inevitably lead to conference presentations, for which my greatest influence is Kevlin Henney’s presentations.
Perhaps my greatest inspiration is the real world, which I enjoy exploring. My favourite way to learn about a new city and immerse myself in it is to explore its cafes, which I started doing on business trips and overseas assignments when I had a hotel room instead of a home to stay in. Writing cafe reviews on my own web site, before the likes of TripAdvisor was invented, was also how I started to explore writing. Today, there’s still probably as much writing about cafes as about programming on my own blog.
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Registration is now open
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?
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Brutal Building Constraints
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.
Peter Kofler is a software developer since 17 years and still enthusiastic about writing code. At I T.A.K.E Unconference, he will share more about Brutal Coding Constraints.
#1. Please share with us 5 things you did that helped you grow & become the professional you are today
1. The biggest thing I did that changed me was a Journeyman Tour. For three months I visited different companies in Vienna and paired with their developers. See here for more information. (Three Month Journeyman Tour)
2. This included a lot of pair programming with strangers. I like pair programming and make use of it to learn from others. (Pair Programming)
3. I did (and still do) a lot of Code Katas to practice and experiment with code, patterns, and design. (Code Katas)
4. Try to continuously improve.
5. Read technical books.
#2. What challenges will the participants find solutions to during your session at I T.A.K.E Unconference 2017?
Yes, my session, the Brutal Coding Constraints, is a real challenge. It challenges our perception of Object Orientation and aims to deepen our understanding.
#3. Recommend for the participants 3 sources you find inspiration from and would help them better understand you
* Michael Feathers – The Deep Synergy Between Testability and Good Design
* Bryan Liles – TATFT – Test All the F…in Time
* J.B. Rainsberger – The Worlds Best Introduction to TDD
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