Conferences - Ian Nelson

22 October 2014 • 6 min read

DDDNorth 2014 Review

I had no excuse for not attending DDDNorth this year, as it was held at Leeds University, a relatively short drive from home. Not that I'd be looking for an excuse - these free events are always superbly organised and

Conferences Yorkshire WorkAndCareer Architecture Programming

02 September 2014 • 2 min read

Technology Overviews for IT Recruiters

Earlier this week registration opened for this year's DDD North. This is one of my favourite conferences, so I excitedly shared the news across my social media accounts, prompting the following curious email from a local Recruitment Consultant: Subject: DDD

Conferences WorkAndCareer

05 June 2009 • 1 min read

Agile Yorkshire @ The Pub - Gojko Adzic, 10th June 2009

If you’re in the Leeds area next Wednesday, why not come along to this Agile Yorkshire session? 10th June - Gojko Adzic: Slim, The Future Of FitNesse Details This talk will introduce Slim, the most important upgrade to FitNesse

Conferences Testing

14 May 2009 • 3 min read

What Value a Conference?

Tuesday of this week was a good day for conference announcements. First, Ben Hall announced the next Alt.Net.UK conference, to be held in London over the course of a full summer weekend. This includes an Alt.Net beers

Conferences WorkAndCareer .NET

07 May 2009 • 1 min read

Agile Yorkshire @ The Pub - Exploratory Testing, May 13th

If I can get a pass out from helping to look after the burgeoning Nelson family for an evening, I’ll be going along to this Agile Yorkshire session next Wednesday. May 13th - Ralph Williams: Exploratory TestingDetails In this

Conferences Testing Agile

19 April 2009 • 2 min read

Alt.Net UK In The North

I spent much of this weekend over in Bradford, talking shop with the good folks at the Alt.Net UK ‘in the North’ conference. I had a great time, learned much, and am grateful to Richard Fennell of

Conferences .NET

12 April 2009 • 2 min read

Seeking Kindred Spirits

I’m coming round to the realization that my hugely enjoyable first contract at Ventura last summer might have been something of an anomaly. That project was decidedly agile, test-driven, and used a bunch of modern technologies including Monorail, ExtJS,

Conferences WorkAndCareer Agile

17 June 2007 • 3 min read

Software Architect 2007

Last week I had the pleasure of spending a few days in London attending the Software Architect 2007 conference at the Barbican centre. It was a good conference, providing me with some useful and interesting new ideas and food for

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