CUSEC summary part 2

I wanted to write a more detailed post about CUSEC, like I did last year. I tried a couple of times but I couldn’t find a really good way of putting it all together. I always wanted my blog to help me get better at writing. Maybe I put too much pressure on myself to [...]

CUSEC 2007 Summary

CUSEC 2007 was last week, from thursday to saturday, and it was good. Once again the organization was great (except for every day starting 30 mins behind schedule). However, I can only say that CUSEC was good, not great. It’s a conference targeting student, so it may be possible that after working a year, and [...]

CUSEC Follow-up

For those of you who missed CUSEC, another keynote is now available at
SOENlive, this time the great keynote from Kathy Sierra. The first keynote “Rails is Boring and Ruby Is A Toy” from Chad Fowler is also available.
I have not posted much in the last few weeks. I’ve been busy learning Rails. I have convinced [...]

Backblog: Anecdotal Evidence

In the next few weeks, I will be going through the backlog of things I accumulated in the last months that I want to touch in this blog. The first one dates back from october, but ties in nicely with my last posts about CUSEC. It’s from Martin Fowler.
This approach – some people report [...]

CUSEC Day 3: Rails keynote and Student Panel

David Heinemeier Hansson, Rails creator, was supposed to give a keynote on Rails, but his plane was stuck in Seattle. Bummer. Chad Fowler pulled double duty and gave a presentation titled “Ruby is a Toy and Rails is Boring”. Ruby is a toy because it’s actually fun to program. Rails is boring because you don’t [...]

CUSEC Day 2: Kathy Sierra Keynote

No surprise here, but the best keynote ended up being Kathy Sierra, Creating Passionate Users. She knows how to keep an audience engaged, which you would expect since part of creating passion actually comes from learning and knowing how to help the brain notice things. Most technical writing focuses on the mind, the rational part, [...]

CUSEC day 2 afternoon: Testing, Formal Methods and Model Based Development of UI

Friday afternoon, I attended another presentation on testing by a gal from Autodesk. The title was “Testing in a Creative Environment”. I expected something more about the difficulties and particularities related to the creative part. It ended being nothing more than the importance, the role of the QA team. It was a bit disappointing in [...]

CUSEC day 2 morning: Agile at Motorola and Modular Concurrency

On thursday, I also attended a presentation on “Software Testing as a Social Science” by Cem Kaner, from the Florida Institute of Technology. It wasn’t bad, but he spent so much time with traditional definitions of testing that he barely had time to scratch the surface of the social aspects of testing, and missed an [...]

CUSEC day 1: Chad Fowler Keynote

CUSEC opened on thursday morning with a very interesting keynote from Chad Fowler, author of “My Job Went To India”, titled “Fight the Traffic”. He first went through his career from computer support to CTO for a year and half in India. Doom is responsible for his passion for computer. He recently decided he wanted [...]