Re: [YLUG] Fwd: 11th Sept, Gary Short, How To Eat An Elephant
Anyone go? Any great insights? As below. Looks blummin' interesting - I do a lot of work with legacy codebases - but I don't yet know if I can go. Anyone else interested? Original Message Subject: 11th Sept, Gary Short, How To Eat An Elephant Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:08:43 - From: Posts of Event Announcements: Neil McLaughlin administra...@agileyorkshire.org To: steve@localhost 11th Sept, Gary Short, How To Eat An Elephant https://sites.google.com/a/agileyorkshire.org/main/event-announcements/11thseptgaryshortyourchoice http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1090546598/Gary.png Head of Gibraltar Labs. Microsoft MVP in C#. Node.js and Python hacker. Podcaster, speaker and social network wrangler (http://twitter.com/garyshort/) *_How to Eat an Elephant _* Or, how to architect a codebase wide refactoring project. In this advanced refactoring session, we’ll look at such things as functional decomposition, code criticality, the correctness continuum, sub-tree refactoring index and prioritisation. All these terms will be defined, explained and demonstrated, so that by the end of this presentation you’ll have the knowledge and confidence to architect such a refactoring project… or eat an elephant, whichever you prefer. URL: https://sites.google.com/a/agileyorkshire.org/main/event-announcements/11thseptgaryshortyourchoice -- Yours, Steve Almond Web Developer st...@silkandslug.com | Skype: silkandslug Tel: 07947 017 652 | 01904 466 833 SilkAndSlug.com : Always Improving ___ York mailing list York@lists.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/york
[YLUG] NASA's International Space Apps Challenge - York: 12-13 April 2014
Dear York LUG, My name is Pedro Ribeiro and I am a member of the organising committee for NASA's Space Apps Challenge at York - a 2-day global hackathon led by NASA. Here in York, this *free event* will be hosted by the Department of Computer Science, University of York, on the 12th and 13th of April 2014. I was wondering whether any of your members would be intersted in participating. For further information please check the message included below. You are welcome to forward it to other recipients. I am also attaching a poster that you are free to print and circulate. Best regards, Pedro Ribeiro -- Hi there, For a second consecutive time, on the weekend of the *12th* and *13th* *April 2014*, the Department of Computer Science, University of York, will be hosting the third edition of *NASA's International Space Apps Challenge* - a free 2-day global hackathon. This is an opportunity for you to tackle real-world challenges to improve life on Earth and in space! Whether you are a designer, software developer, technologist or simply have an enthusiasm for solving problems, this is the event for you! No programming experience is necessary. However, if you are a programmer and want to develop an app you are more than welcome to participate! The International Space Apps Challenge, now in its third edition, is a unique annual hackathon type of event, which will take place in over 90 locations worldwide simultaneously. In 2013 it attracted more than 9000 simultaneous participants from all over the globe! At the event, you will form a team with others taking part in the hackathon, and you and your team will be focused on solving a particular challenge. You will compete with other teams around the world and you will be able to use publicly available data to create your own solution to NASA's global challenges. This year's challenges will focus on five themes: Earth Watch, Technology in Space, Human Spaceflight, Robotics and Asteroids. Participants compete against teams locally and globally to win prizes, with the global winning team receiving special attention from NASA, including a support package to further develop the winning app. UK winners will also be invited to present their solutions at the Victoria and Albert museum in London. In order to attend the event you must register on-line at: https://2014.spaceappschallenge.org/location/york/ You can also keep in touch via Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceAppsYork or follow us on twitter at: https://twitter.com/spaceappsyork If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us on spacea...@york.ac.uk Best wishes, Pedro Ribeiro York lead for Space Apps Challenge -- York Space Apps Challenge 2014 E-mail: spacea...@york.ac.uk Twitter: @spaceappsYork https://twitter.com/spaceappsyork Facebook: facebook.com/SpaceAppsYork Website: spaceappschallenge.org/location/york/ ___ York mailing list York@lists.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/york
[YLUG] Agile Yorkshire - tomorrow
Hi All, I'm planning to drive to the below event /*tomorrow evening*/, and can offer lifts to and/or from. It starts 6:30 in Leeds, so I'm thinking to leave Fulford c.5:45. Does anyone want to join me? 10th January, An Extreme Hour http://www.agileyorkshire.org/event-announcements/10thjanuaryanextremehour _Timeboxes_ *18:30* Networking And Lightning Talks - starting with /XP in 10 Slides/ *19:00* Kick Start Briefing *19:30* Extreme Hour: GO! *20:30* Retrospective *21:00* Discussions@thepub Kent Beck http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?KentBeck published /Extreme Programming Explained/ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kkMQKQEACAAJ over a decade ago but - reading the book again - it still seems fresh. Extreme Programming http://www.extremeprogramming.org/ (XP) is an incremental http://alistair.cockburn.us/Incremental+versus+iterative+development agile http://www.agile-process.org/ method http://martinfowler.com/articles/newMethodology.html, lighter than Scrum or DSDM and with less ceremony, most useful for teams towards the smaller end of the spectrum. In 2009, Capers Jones found http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CJd__8ANvtQC XP to be one of the key factors for success for projects in the 1000 Function Point scale (with Agile and contemporary high-level languages). Time to take a look again at XP, and dissect why - and when - it works. For January 2012, Agile Yorkshire features anExtreme Hour http://c2.com/xp/ExtremeHour.html: a one hour process miniature http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ProcessMiniature. In this hands-on exercise, small teams will use XP to develop paper prototypes http://www.alistapart.com/articles/paperprototyping/ for a mystery product. No coding experience need, just a steady hand with pen and scissors. An introduction to XP will be provided. The evening will end with discussion reflecting on our experiences. http://www.agileyorkshire.org/event-announcements/10thjanuaryanextremehour -- Yours, Steve Almond Web Developer st...@silkandslug.com | Skype: silkandslug Tel: 07947 017 652 | 01904 466 833 SilkAndSlug.com : Always Improving ___ York mailing list York@lists.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/york
[YLUG] UKUUG - FLOSS UK - Call For Papers - Spring Event 2015 - YORK
Although the suggested date has passed for paper submissions, there are still a handful of slot spaces, and I'd encourage anybody who would be interested in presenting a paper to submit an abstract anyway. Gavin Forwarded Message From: Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org Subject: [UKUUG-Announce] UKUUG - FLOSS UK - Call For Papers - Spring Event 2015 - YORK FLOSS UK 'DEVOPS' - Spring 2015 - Workshop Conference York – 24th, 25th 26th March 2015 FLOSS UK's 'DEVOPS' event will take place in York from the 24th - 26th March 2015. This is the UK's only conference aimed specifically at systems and network administrators. It attracts a large number of professionals from sites of all shapes and sizes. As well as the technical talks, the conference provides a friendly environment for delegates to meet, learn, and enjoy lively debate on a host of subjects. Workshop: The conference will be preceded by a workshop. If you would like to offer a workshop that might interest our target audience, please submit a proposal. Conference: We are currently accepting talks; so if you are a systems administrator, we want to hear from you. We are seeking papers covering all aspects of systems and network administration, including: *backup and restore *data de-duplication *security and audit *authentication and authorisation *operating systems *network/cluster file systems *ethics and legislative compliance *storage solutions *databases and directory services *nomadic and wireless computing *cluster management *configuration management *scripting and task automation *benchmarking and performance tuning *networks systems monitoring *virtualisation and system deployment using 'cloud' technology If you have a novel solution to a problem, experience of a particular application or hardware platform, tips and tricks for fellow systems administrators, or a favourite tool you could talk about, please submit a paper for consideration by the programme committee. There will be a prize for the best talk. Bursaries may be made available for accepted speakers who are unable to afford travel costs. (Note: A budget limit has been set by Council and all amounts are to be confirmed in advance). All accepted speakers receive a complimentary conference place and a ticket for the Conference dinner. We are also seeking lightning talks for the afternoon of Wednesday 25th March – please contact us if you have something you want to schedule in the programme. Significant Dates: Initial closing date for abstracts: 14th November 2014 Speakers notified by: 21st November 2014 To offer a talk please email spring2...@flossuk.org -- FLOSS UK Secretariat The Manor House Buntingford Herts SG9 9AB Tel: 01763 273475 Fax: 01763 273255 off...@flossuk.org off...@ukuug.org www.flossuk.org www.ukuug.org A Company Limited by Guarantee UKUUG Ltd. t/a FLOSS UK Registered Office: The Manor House Buntingford Herts SG9 9AB Reg. No. 2506680 ___ Announce mailing list annou...@lists.ukuug.org http://lists.ukuug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce -- Gavin Atkinson FreeBSD committer and bugmeister GPG: A093262B (313A A79F 697D 3A5C 216A EDF5 935D EF44 A093 262B)___ York mailing list York@lists.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/york
[YLUG] Fwd: December 13th - Annual Lightning Talks
Agile Yorkshire, Tuesday, book online (link below). Forwarded Message Subject:December 13th - Annual Lightning Talks Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 00:01:03 - From: Posts of Events: Neil McLaughlin <neil.mclaugh...@agileyorkshire.org> More details to follow but topics already confirmed are: * Do You Trust Your Dog? All about building and developing trusting relationships * Different types of failure * Why Triathlon is better than football * MonsterLith Inc: A Tale of two Ditties * Geospatial for dummies - why mapping matters * You built what I asked for, it's not what I needed * Harnessing the power and benefits of incompetence * Why does your browser think #chucknorris is a color ? plus others to be confirmed.  --- URL: https://sites.google.com/a/agileyorkshire.org/main/event-announcements/20161213 ___ York mailing list York@lists.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/york
