My notes from the SD Best Practices Conference aren't written in prose or anything, but they're still handy so I thought I'd post my notes taken during the keynote given by Joel Spolsky entitled 'Building Better Software". Enjoy:
There’s a big difference between #1 and #2. Compare David Beckham vs. Landon Donovan; Hey Jude (#1 hit 1968) vs. [...]
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There was a Day Four that I attended at the SD Best Practices Conference, even though I'm posting this a week later. As mentioned in the previous post, I wasn't entirely sure which sessions I would be attending that day, but these are the ones that made the cut:
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Day 3 was about Financial Engineering, Quantitative Testing, and Agile Metrics. And as I get ready for Day 4 I realize that burnout is setting in. If you've been to the GDC, then you know it's a bad idea to go to a class every single session – by the end of the week you'll [...]
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Day 2 of the SD Best Practices conference kicked off with the 1.5 hour sessions, which make for a more engaging day in my opinion than an all-day tutorial session. My Day 2 was focused more on the design and process side, as I went to three agile-related classes and one user interface design related class. [...]
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Today was Tutorial day at the SD Best Practices conference. I attended an all-day session held by Dan Saks and Stephen Dewhurst called "Sooner Rather than Later: Static Coding Techniques for C++".
The major topics covered involved how to use templates, explicit partialization, and partial specialization to make C++ code more secure so that errors are found [...]
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