This past weekend, I had the wonderful experience of going to MobiDevDay Conference that was held in my hometown, downtown Detroit. It was an amazing conference, and a big thank you to all of the work and effort that went into making it such an excellent and wonderful experience.
Since I am familiar with the concepts of Android development, I decided to spend some time looking at what it takes in order to develop an iOS application. I have never, ever seen what Objective-C even looks like, before this conference, and I am glad that I made the decision to look at it.
....fast forward to yesterday....
I was having lunch with a friend of mine, who is a polygot programmer. He told me about a wonderful FREE series on iTunesU from Stanford University that really helped him learn how to develop Objective-C.
If you are interested, here is the iTunes link.
Enjoy....
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Friday, August 21, 2009
Grand Rapids BarCamp 2009
Grand Rapids Barcamp 2009 starts tonight!!!
Unfortunately, this is going to be the first BarCamp that I will not be attending. I was really looking forward to going, but I cannot work it into the schedule. I hope that everyone has a great time tonight and tomorrow....
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Barcamp Grand Rapids Episode 3 :- Revenge of the Unconference
Barcamp Grand Rapids 3 is almost here!!!
After attending the first two BarCampGR(s), I have to say that I am most excited about attending this one. Not only does each one seems to get better and better, but this year, we have had a huge amount of support from the local businesses and we have surpassed expectation of registered attendees. I am very excited to see friends that I have made from the past events, as well as making new ones.
If you are new to the BarCamp concept, please take the time to investigate it further. I will say that is unlike any other commercial conference that you have ever attended. First and foremost, the event is 100% free. Now don't get the wrong impression, since the event is going to last for two days and it is free, please don't expect that you will be forced to brown bag it for the weekend. Thanks to generous donations from local area businesses, this event will also be catered and we will be handing out schwag to boot.
This will be a great time, and I hope to see you there.....
After attending the first two BarCampGR(s), I have to say that I am most excited about attending this one. Not only does each one seems to get better and better, but this year, we have had a huge amount of support from the local businesses and we have surpassed expectation of registered attendees. I am very excited to see friends that I have made from the past events, as well as making new ones.
If you are new to the BarCamp concept, please take the time to investigate it further. I will say that is unlike any other commercial conference that you have ever attended. First and foremost, the event is 100% free. Now don't get the wrong impression, since the event is going to last for two days and it is free, please don't expect that you will be forced to brown bag it for the weekend. Thanks to generous donations from local area businesses, this event will also be catered and we will be handing out schwag to boot.
This will be a great time, and I hope to see you there.....
Monday, November 19, 2007
GLSEC was awesome...
The Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference was great!!! I had a chance to meet some of the technical talent here in West Michigan (and beyond), and learn a lot of new and interesting things regarding technology and Project Management.
One of the greatest parts of the conference was listening to Bob Martin speak. I have never heard him speak before, and he is great. He is very passionate about software development. I took away many of nuggets of wisdom from his talk titled Clean Code, and I will plan to share some of them in future posts.
Overall, I think that my talk, Classical vs. Mockist Test Driven Development was well received. I was definitely nervous, especially since I had to follow Bob Martin's Clean Code talk. In the end, however, it is very natural to talk about a topic that you enjoy - in this case Test Driven Development.
I also attended the first day of tutorials offered at the event. I spent the day with Chad Fowler, learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I was really impressed with what is capable with Ruby on Rails. To be able to whip out web applications so fast with such little effort, is definitely enticing. If you are a Java Developer, I highly recommend you taking the time to look at this language. I believe that in the future, dynamic languages on the JVM is going to become more and more popular, and it will be important to know these concepts in the future.
Standing ovation to all of the people who dedicated so much time to the GLSEC making this event the success that it was. I am definitely looking forward to it next year.
One of the greatest parts of the conference was listening to Bob Martin speak. I have never heard him speak before, and he is great. He is very passionate about software development. I took away many of nuggets of wisdom from his talk titled Clean Code, and I will plan to share some of them in future posts.
Overall, I think that my talk, Classical vs. Mockist Test Driven Development was well received. I was definitely nervous, especially since I had to follow Bob Martin's Clean Code talk. In the end, however, it is very natural to talk about a topic that you enjoy - in this case Test Driven Development.
I also attended the first day of tutorials offered at the event. I spent the day with Chad Fowler, learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I was really impressed with what is capable with Ruby on Rails. To be able to whip out web applications so fast with such little effort, is definitely enticing. If you are a Java Developer, I highly recommend you taking the time to look at this language. I believe that in the future, dynamic languages on the JVM is going to become more and more popular, and it will be important to know these concepts in the future.
Standing ovation to all of the people who dedicated so much time to the GLSEC making this event the success that it was. I am definitely looking forward to it next year.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Presenting at GLSEC
Great news!!! Yours truly was selected to present at this year's Great Lakes Excellence Software Conference to be held November 7th and 8th in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I will be presenting on the topic of Classicist or Mockist Test Driven Developer - a continuation / explanation of my original blog post of the same name.
Although I have spoken many times at different local user groups, this will be the first time that I have submitted and been selected to speak at a conference. I have found the whole experience to be quite rewarding thus far - submitting the talk to the council, receiving the acceptance letter /email, and preparing for the presentation.
In addition to being excited about speaking at the conference, I am also excited about meeting and networking with so many wonderful technology professionals. Some of the people you may recognize that are going to be at this event include Bob Martin, of Object Mentor and Chad Fowler the Ruby Maestro. Chad Fowler wrote a very interesting book titled My Job Went to India: 52 Ways to Save Your Job. I have not had a chance to pick up my copy yet, but I did get a chance to listen to a podcast where he was interviewed about his book, and was very impressed with his thoughts and ideas.
I hope that you are all able to go to the conference. I am sure that it will be a great time.
Although I have spoken many times at different local user groups, this will be the first time that I have submitted and been selected to speak at a conference. I have found the whole experience to be quite rewarding thus far - submitting the talk to the council, receiving the acceptance letter /email, and preparing for the presentation.
In addition to being excited about speaking at the conference, I am also excited about meeting and networking with so many wonderful technology professionals. Some of the people you may recognize that are going to be at this event include Bob Martin, of Object Mentor and Chad Fowler the Ruby Maestro. Chad Fowler wrote a very interesting book titled My Job Went to India: 52 Ways to Save Your Job. I have not had a chance to pick up my copy yet, but I did get a chance to listen to a podcast where he was interviewed about his book, and was very impressed with his thoughts and ideas.
I hope that you are all able to go to the conference. I am sure that it will be a great time.
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Barcamp Grand Rapids Returns!!!
We are in the final sessions of the 2nd Annual BarCamp Grand Rapids 2007. Last year was fun, but this year was a blast. Kyle Adams and Dave Brondsema really put a lot of effort into making this year's unconference a success.
Two Google employees, a Senior Technical Recruiter and a Linux System Administrator, made the event this year, with plenty of swag. They gave away T-shirts, notebooks, pens and one lucky guy walked away with an iPod. Envoi Solutions, funded the party. There was great food and great drinks. Some of the interesting talks and Lightning Talks (LT) included:
Package Management for Ubuntu - Matt Alexander of Google
Design Eye for the IT Guy - Kyle Adams
Interaction Based Testing - Matt Heusser and Sean McMillan
(LT) :- SOA and Transactions
(LT) :- Re-inventing the Wheel
The presentations and the content were great, but the best part of the unconference was the people. At this type of event, it is the people that make the conference what it is. Since there was such a great group of people, I think that is what made this years event absolutely great. Looking forward to it next year.
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