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Peter Bell

Agile Architect/CTO

Peter is the CTO of PowWow - a lean startup in NYC. He presents internationally and writes extensively on domain specific languages, agile architecture, NoSQL and requirements and estimating. He helps teams to develop great software quickly by improving the requirements gathering, estimating, project management processes, engineering practices and tools used.

He is on the program committee for Code Generation in Cambridge, England and the Domain Specific Modeling workshop at SPLASH (was ooPSLA). He has presented at a range of conferences including DLD Conference, ooPSLA, Code Generation, Practical Product Lines, the British Computer Society Software Practices Advancement conference, UberConf, the Rich Web Experience and the No Fluff Just Stuff tour. He has been published in IEEE Software, Dr. Dobbs, IBM developerWorks, Information Week, Methods & Tools, NFJS the Magazine, Mashed Code, JSMag and GroovyMag. He is also a regular instructor at General Assembly - a campus for technology, design, and entrepreneurship in New York.


Presentations

Software Craftsmanship: Positioning, Patterns and Practices

None of us want to think of ourselves as "cowboy coders", but what does it mean to be a software craftsman, and is it a useful distinction? If so, what are some of the best patterns for honing our craft?

Starting with both sides of the recent debate on software craftsmanship from leaders in the SC movement to David Harvey and Dan North, we'll look at what software craftsmanship is and isn't, and then we'll explore specific patterns and practices that can help us to be better coders - whether or not we want to adopt the craftmanship moniker.

Requirements and Estimating - state of the art

A chance for experience agile developers to learn and share state of the art tips for improving requirements gathering and project estimation.

You've been doing agile for a while and use story cards and burn down charts on a regular basis, but you'd still like to improve the quality of the applications you build and your ability to estimate the scope of those applications and manage business stakeholder expectations.

A combination of presentation and open discussion, this will be a chance to discuss and debate best practices in requirements gathering, estimating and expectation management with your peers, sharing best practices from projects large and small around the world.

How to Select and Adopt a Technology

What's the point attending a conference unless you do something with the knowledge you gain? In this session we look at practical strategies for selecting new technologies and proven approaches for driving adoption back at the office.

From the technology adoption lifecycle and the importance of community to "the knowing doing gap" and technology adoption patterns, we'll look at a range of practical case studies that illustrate proven techniques for selecting and adopting new technologies for your team.





Blogs

John Smart

Managing state between steps

Posted By: John Smart on Feb. 21, 2012

Sometimes it's useful to be able to pass information between steps. For example, you might need to check that a client's details entered into a registration form appear correctly on a confirmation page later on. You could do this by passing values fro



Andres Almiray

The Griffon Trove: peeking at the build

Posted By: Andres Almiray on Feb. 20, 2012

There are times when working with Griffon you'd like to know what's really happening during build process execution; for example, how much time does it take for a task to complete, or what are the different events you can react to using build event h



Andres Almiray

The Griffon Trove: what version are you running?

Posted By: Andres Almiray on Feb. 19, 2012

Welcome to a new series of posts regarding Tips & Tricks about Griffon. The Griffon team decided to leave a late San Valentin present in the form of Griffon



Bruce Snyder

Yak Shaving to Install Git Via MacPorts on OS X Lion

Posted By: Bruce Snyder on Feb. 19, 2012

Today I needed to set up a new MacBook Pro and as such one of the tasks was to install git on OS X Lion. Being that I am a fan of MacPorts, I decided to start there but I ran into some strange errors. Unfortunately I wound up doing a lot of yak sha



Bruce Snyder

The Regenexx Stem Cell Procedure for my Knee

Posted By: Bruce Snyder on Feb. 18, 2012

In my last blog post, I discussed the problems I have had with my knee, the recent injury causing meniscus tears and about the alternative treatment I elected to have instead of surgery. Well this week I underwent the treatments for the Regenexx pro



Johanna Rothman

Pragmatic Managers Posted for Your Reading Pleasure

Posted By: Johanna Rothman on Feb. 17, 2012

I have posted 2012′s Pragmatic Manager emails. I have been writing in themes this year: I am writing about geographically distributed teams in preparation for my Geographically Distributed Teams Workshop with Shane in April: Building Trust in An



Johanna Rothman

Webinar Recording Available, Last Day for Early Registration for Workshop

Posted By: Johanna Rothman on Feb. 15, 2012

Shane and I recorded a webinar at noon today, about our Geographically Distributed Agile Teams workshop. We had a great time, and answered a lot of questions. We had a few recording glitches, so if you hear me talking over Shane, oo



Terry Ryan

Inception Score Easter Egg with Web Audio API

Posted By: Terry Ryan on Feb. 15, 2012

There's a great video on YouTube detailing an Easter Egg in the score for the movie Inception.  Basically Inception is about dreams and the slowing down of time. Likewise the score is based on the slowing down of music that is played inside the plot of



Terry Ryan

Web Audio API: setting playbackRate

Posted By: Terry Ryan on Feb. 14, 2012

I was working on a little demo showing the manipulation of playback rates of audio clips.  The Audio tag failed miserably.  On Safari and Chrome (both for Mac) the audio tag couldn't playback the audio any slower than half spe



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