It is, again, the time of the year where the schedule for the conference season comes together nicely. So, without further adue, these are the conferences I will be giving talks on this year.
My résumé of BASTA conference 2013
Right now I'm on the train on my journey back from BASTA 2013. Time for a small résumé.
Making it short: The BASTA conference was great. Especially of course meeting friends and colleagues you usually just see at conferences. It's quite interesting to see some of the guys you know from other conferences like EKON or Delphi Live! that are now also here at BASTA (especially from tool vendors that have their origin in the Delphi space).
Besides my own session about JavaScript Unit Testing (here are the Slides and code samples and also a small summary (in German) published just after my talk) I also attended some other sessions. Especially the whole "Modern Business Application" track, mainly driven from our colleagues at thinktecture was very interesting.
But perhaps even more interesting were some of the boothes. Especially one of them caught my attention: Testhub (in German). I really like the idea of outsourcing your testing efforts to testing specialists. And also the price tag on this kind of crowd-testing seems very appealing. I had the opportunity to talk directly to one of the founders of Testhub, and chatted with him about requirements against testing and the whole concept seems very well thought-out.
Im a bit sad that I have to leave that early, but I have other duties that cannot I don't want to wait. I wish all other BASTA attendees and speakers another two exciting days in Mainz. I'm looking forward to see some of them at EKON in November.
Update: Added a link to the summary article on "Windows Developer".
I’m Speaking at EKON 17, too
Nick started the "I'm speaking at" campaign for EKON 17, and so I thought I'd team up and join him, not only on this campaign but also going to support his Unit-Testing session with some automation tips & tricks in my own CI session.
I'm giving two sessions at
EKON 17, 04. -06. November 2013 in Cologne:
Both talks will be held in German, but since I keep my slides in english you should be able to follow, and I'm also happy to explain things in english when asked to do so.
The first session is about Continuous Integration (CI), where I'm going to explain why you should do it and what tools are available and how powerful a good CI setup can be.
The second talk is an introduction into Git. I'm explaining the differences between SVN and Git, and showing you what distributed version control can do for you.
So, I'd be happy to see you at EKON in Cologne.
Oh, and if you're still unsure about whether you should go, then just contact me. We can arrange a little discount 😉
And some additional info about EKON (in German):
EKON 17 – Das Konferenz-Highlight für Delphi-Entwickler
Vom 04. bis 06. November 2013 präsentiert das Entwickler Magazin in Köln die 17. Entwickler Konferenz. Die EKON ist das große jährliche Konferenz-Highlight für die Delphi-Community und bietet in diesem Jahr insgesamt 30 Sessions und 4 Workshops mit vielen nationalen und internationalen Profis der Delphi-Community – unter anderen mit Marco Cantú von Embarcadero, Bernd Ua, Ray Konopka, Nick Hodges, Cary Jensen u.v.m. Fünf Tracks stehen zur Auswahl, von Tips &Techniques, IDE & Tools, Crossplatform/ Mobile/ Web über OOP/ Fundamentals bis hin zu Datenbanken. Auch Neuigkeiten aus dem Hause Embarcadero, wie beispielsweise die iOS-Entwicklung stehen auf der Agenda. Alle Infos auf www.entwickler-konferenz.de.