Peter Bell

You don't need to “do scrum” or “implement lean” to be agile.

This pragmatic session shows how specific agile software development techniques can be adopted individually to solve particular problems. If you've wondered how to get started with agile or are not getting the benefits you'd expected from agile, this session will show you a way of thinking to make agile work for your organization - along with plenty of proven patterns for improving the effectiveness of your agile initiatives.

With NoSQL data stores you need to completely rethink how to model your data.

In this session we'll look at the very different approaches to data modeling required for MongoDB and Neo4j.

MongoDB and CouchDB are two popular NoSQL document data stores and both are great options for getting started with NoSQL. In this session we'll look at how to install and work with each of them. We'll then look at some of the differences under the hood and how to select between the two different data stores.

Whether you are interested in the scalability of NoSQL solutions or just want to check out schemaless document stores for quicker application development, MongoDB and CouchDB are great ways of getting your feet wet with NoSQL and this session will cover everything you need to get started.

You don't need to be Amazon or Google to take advantage of NoSQL data stores. Whether you want to develop applications more quickly or scale them more effectively, there are a range of NoSQL data stores that could help. This introductory session cuts through the NoSQL hype to look at the practical use cases for key value, document, column and graph data stores.

We'll also look at specific NoSQL engines like Riak, CouchDB, MongoDB, Cassandra and Neo and look at how you'd select a NoSQL data store for a given use case.

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.

Like it or not, with application servers like node.js and increasingly rich client MVC frameworks like backbone.js, Javascript is in your future.

In this session we'll look deeply at the fundamental strengths and weaknesses of the language and how to become a javascript professional. We'll include information on using Jasmine for testing your Javascript.

The easy part of implementing Domain Specific Languages is coding them. The hard part comes when you have to think about testing, documenting, evolving and providing appropriate editing interfaces for them.

In this session we'll go beyond the syntax and look at the real world engineering concerns for widespread use of a DSL and various proven strategies for building DSLs that will grow with your projects and work for your target users.

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.

Intuit and even the US government want to be “lean startups”.

Learn how businesses of any size can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their software development processes using lean startup principles like Minimum Viable Product, Validated Learning and Metrics Driven Development.

Learn why key agile practices work.

We'll look at the underlying theory from fields as diverse as queueing theory and computer networking to show why popular agile approaches work.