[ANNOUNCE] EVENTS, HUMOUR, BOOKS related to SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

From: newswire_4_developers (newswire_4_developers_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-02 08:29:55

CONTENTS:
** EVENTS ** EUROPE **
** BOOKS **
** EVENTS ** USA **
** CALL FOR SPEAKERS ** EUROPE
** CALL FOR SPEAKERS ** USA
** HUMOUR **
** OTHER INFORMATION - MAGAZINES, WHITEPAPERS ... **

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** EVENTS ** EUROPE **
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Enterprise Architect Conference
Arts Hotel, Barcelona - Nov 6-8 2005
http://www.ftponline.com/conferences/eas/barcelona/
Quote ref: EASMC

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Architectural Reference Model for Enterprise Applications
2 Day Course.
Jan 2006
London UK
www.ratio.co.uk/ARM%20-%20Course%20Outline.pdf
email: info AT ratio.co.uk
See related article: 
http://www.ftponline.com/ea/magazine/summer2005/features/mcollinscope
/

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8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems
23 - 27, May 2006             
Paphos - Cyprus 	
http://www.iceis.org/cfp.htm

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Fourth International Symposium on Formal Methods for Components and 
Objects (FMCO 2005)
DATES 1 - 4 November 2005
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://fmco.liacs.nl/fmco05.html

** BOOKS **
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*** Essential Skills for Agile Development ***

This book has an elegant yet highly effective minimalist style. 
Rather than long theoretical discussion the book does what it does 
by example - and there's plenty of example code given. 
Overall the book covers many topics and issues related to agile 
software development, including: keeping code fit; 
handling inappropriate references; seperating database, UI and 
domain logic; 
unit testing and acceptance testing amongst others.The reason this 
book is to be recommended to developers, 
is that even if you're not doing full on "agile" development, 
there's still plenty of useful material in it. 
The lack of hype is also refreshing - the book focuses on examples 
and shows good solutions. You should get it!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-
/9993776726/ratiogroupltd-20/qid=1128944604/sr=8-
1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-3185742-7805624?
v=glance&s=books&n=507846

*** Agile Development with Iconix Process ***
"… because of this, we have been able to consistently deliver great 
software based on the original core time-after-time …"
"the authors … identify an `essential' list of agile practices to 
follow, including aggressive testing and frequent small releases …"
"… it is indeed rare for this level of detail to be given to a 
single example …"
"… finally a real world example with real-world solutions…"
(extracts from amazon.com)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590594649/ratiogroupltd-20?
creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1

*** Agile and Iterative Development, A Manager's Guide ***
Using statistically significant research and large-scale case 
studies, noted methods 
expert Craig Larman presents the most convincing case ever made for 
iterative development. 
Larman offers a concise, information-packed summary of the key ideas 
that drive all agile and iterative processes, 
with the details of four noteworthy iterative methods: Scrum, XP, 
RUP, and Evo. 
This book is a must if you need to get a grip on the spectrum of 
agile development techniques out there.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-
/0131111558//ratiogroupltd-20/qid=1128944877/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-
3185742-7805624?v=glance&s=books

** EVENTS ** USA **
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29th Internationalization & Unicode Conference
March 6-8, 2006
San Francisco, California, USA
http://www.unicodeconference.org/IUC29call

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SD WEST 2006
Santa Clara Convention Center
Santa Clara, CA
March 13-17, 2006
http://www.cmpevents.com/SDw6/a.asp?option=C

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15th International Conference
on Software Engineering and Data Engineering
(SEDE-2006)
Los Angeles, California
July 6-8, 2006
http://www.cnsqa.com/spw2006/jsp/html/spw/callforpapers.jsp

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Software Test and Performance Conference
http://www.stpcon.com/
NOVEMBER 1-3, 2005
ROOSEVELT HOTEL
New York City

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IEEE Software Architecture Conference.
(WICSA) November 6-9, 2005
http://sunset.usc.edu/~softarch/wicsa5/

** CALL FOR SPEAKERS ** EUROPE
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Call for Speakers
Software Developer Conference
May 15 and 16, 2006
Papendal Convention Center
Arnhem, The Netherlands
http://www.sdc.nl/

** CALL FOR SPEAKERS ** USA
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SD BEST PRACTICES 2006
Hynes Convention Center
Boston, MA
September 11-14, 2006
Call for Abstracts will open January 2006
http://www.sdexpo.com/

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Call for Papers
International Symposium on
Software Testing and Analysis
Portland, Maine
July 17-20 2006
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~gibson/issta/cfp.html

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Call for Papers
15th International Conference
on Software Engineering and Data Engineering
Software Process Change - Meeting the Challenge
(SEDE-2006)
Los Angeles, California
July 6-8, 2006
http://www.cnsqa.com/spw2006/jsp/html/spw/callforpapers.jsp

** HUMOUR **
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"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to 
students that have had prior exposure
to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated 
beyond hope of regeneration."
-Dijkstra

""The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to 
constants; instead of
referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the 
variable PI can be given
that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form 
of the constant.
This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi 
change."
- FORTRAN manual for Xerox computers

"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it
harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
- Bjarne Stroustrup

Star Trek:
Riker [puzzled]
- What the hell is Microsoft? 
Data [turns to explain]
- Allow me to explain. We will send this program, for some reason 
called Windows, through the Borg command pathways. Once inside their 
root command unit, it will begin consuming system resources at an 
unstoppable rate. 
Picard:
- But the Borg have the ability to adapt. Won't they alter their 
processing systems to increase their storage capacity? 
Data:
Yes, Captain. But when Windows detects this, it creates a new 
version of itself known as an upgrade. 
The use of resources increases exponentially with each 
iteration. The Borg will not be able to adapt quickly enough. 
Eventually all of their processing ability will be taken over 
and none will be available for their normal operational functions. 
Picard:
- Excellent work. This is even better than that unsolvable 
geometric shape idea.

** OTHER INFORMATION **
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OBJECTIVE VIEW ISSUE 8 - AGILE DEVELOPMENT SPECIAL

Kent Tong on Turning Comments into Code
Elfreide Dustin on Unit Testing
Tim Mackinnon on Agile Project Retrospectives
Scott Ambler with the latest update on Agile Model Driven Development
Doug Rosenbert and Matt Stephens on Combining UML with TDD
see www.ratio.co.uk/objectiveview.html

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Call for Award Nominations -
28th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'2006)
http://www.isr.uci.edu/icse-06/

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