Software Quality via Unit Testing

The following post is based on a talk I gave at Desert Code Camp 2013. See also the associated slide deck.

Software quality is critical to consistently and continually delivering new features to our users. This articles covers the importance of software quality and how to deliver it via unit testing, Test Driven Development and clean code in general.
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Tags: cleancode, codecamp, dcc13, desertcodecamp, JUnit, martinfowler, talks, tdd, Testing, unittesting

‘An Introduction to Spring’ at LA Code Camp

I gave my ‘An Introduction to Spring’ talk today at the LA code camp. It went fairly well I think. I had very little time to go through the Spring MVC module at the end, but perhaps I will give that as a separate talk another day.

I have posted the presentation slides here.

Tags: codecamp, spring

Speaking at LA Code Camp

I am very pleased to say I will be speaking at the LA Code Camp this weekend. My topic is An Introduction to Spring. I will try to post a report from the code camp this weekend…

This is the same talk I had planned to present at the Silicon Valley Code Camp, so great to be finally giving it…

Tags: codecamp, spring, talks

Spring talk canceled

With much reluctance, I have had to cancel my planned Spring presentation at Silicon Valley Code Camp this weekend. I have been knocked out with flu all week and I am still hoarse, so giving a one hour talk is, unfortunately, not an option.
It is a shame as there was a lot of interest in the talk but in this instance can’t be helped.

Tags: codecamp, spring

CodeCamp 2009: An Introduction to Spring

As I posted about earlier, the Silicon Valley Code Camp 2009 is coming up and this year, I am planning on presenting a session on the Spring framework.

You can find my session details here: An Introduction to Spring.

Tags: codecamp, spring

Silicon Valley Code Camp 2009

The planning for this year’s Silicon Valley Code Camp seems to be well under way. After attending last year’s event, I’m looking forward to it already. There are some great sessions lined up already, including

• Beginning iPhone Development
• Creating Java Applications with Google App Engine
• Intro to Cloud Computing
• Asynchronous Web Services

As the site says: Attendance is free, but space is limited so you need to Register.

As well as attending this year, I am also hoping to present a session on ‘An Introduction to Spring’. I will post more details when I have submitted my proposal…

Tags: codecamp

Silicon Valley Code Camp Notes

I am at the Silicon Valley Code Camp at the moment.

I will try to post some notes on the various talks I attend below…

Day 1:

• Session 1: JavaScript
• Session 2: Easing into Agile
• Session 3: Building Better Tests in Java
• Session 4: What is Python?

Day 2:

• Session 1: Basics of Threading
• Session 2: Introduction to Grails

Tags: agile, codecamp, Java, JavaScript, python, Testing, threading