Fun
These are the sessions tagged with Fun at Øredev 2012:
Monday
8.30-16.30
Raven DB Course (2-day course)
In Ayende Rahien's 2-day RavenDB workshop, you will learn how to use this Document Database tool efficiently in your applications to save time and effort on communicating with database storage. During the course we build together a practical application that demonstrates all important data management patterns.
Please note that this course is very fast-paced, and expects a minimum of 12 months prior experience working with .NET and C#.
Tags: Database Fun Hands on Hard Core Mastery Tools Web .NET
Oren Eini / Ayende Rahien
Oren Eini has over 15 years of experience in the development world with a strong focus on the .NET ecosystem. And has been awarded the Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional since 2007. An internationally known presenter, Oren has spoken at conferences such as DevTeach, JAOO, QCon, Oredev, NDC, Yow! and Progressive.NET. Oren is the author of DSLs in Boo: Domain Specific Languages in .NET. Oren's main focus is on architecture and best practices that promote quality software and zero-friction dev.
8.30-16.30
Course: Innovation games
This two-day, interactive course, based on the material in Luke Hohmann's Innovation Games book, tackles the challenge of developing customer understanding by providing you with a fresh perspective on how to use a variety of games with your customers to develop the understanding that forms the foundation of innovation. You’ll find that if you use them, you’ll come to understand what your customers really want. You’ll have fun doing it.
Maarten Volders
Maarten Volders is the founder at Agileminds.be. Challenges in the creative digital economy like accelerating change, knowledge leveling and hyper-competition are forcing organizations to become highly adaptable, endlessly inventive and truly inspiring. A program based on continuous and validated organizational learning makes Agileminds a different kind of innovation accelerator. Maarten is a changemaker, innovator, and rulebreaker. Het just wants to have fun!
Wednesday
10.00-10.50
Stupid questions and n00bs - top ten intriguing things you need to do
It really doesn’t matter how long you’ve been in this industry or which position you hold, understanding generation n00b and the value it brings should be mandatory for you. After asking a stupid question daily on the blog and interviewing hundreds of n00bs, employers, and teachers I’ve collected for you some rather intriguing and invaluable advice. In this unique narrated short film session I plan to shock, share and shine some light on your most valuable asset: gen. n00bs & stupid questions
Iris Classon
Iris recently caught the attention of the developer community with her tremendous passion for programming and unique career path; a reg. clinical dietician turned programmer. Within a year she earned MCPD & MCTS certifications, was invited to join MEET, and landed a fulltime developer job. She’s been interviewed on Hanselminutes, Code Project, and Pluralsight and is today a Technical Evangelist for Telerik, software developer for Dotnet Mentor and organizor of the Sweden Pluralsight Study Group
14.10-15.00
The Art of Metaprogramming in Java
Metaprogramming is the dirty little secret behind the success of many Java frameworks such as Spring and Struts2, and forms the backbone of many of the most fundamental APIs across the JEE technology stack. This session aims to introduce the topic and highlight, with code examples, the different mechanisms and techniques to take advantage of this underused feature of the Java Programming Language. This session will adopt a learn-by-example approach that combines the theory with concrete code.
Abdelmonaim Remani
A software developer and technology enthusiast at heart and by profession. Particularly interested in technology evangelism and enterprise software development and architecture. Experienced in Java Enterprise Applications and a wide range of related technologies. President and Founder of a number of organizations namely The NorCal Java User Group, The Silicon Valley Dart Meetup, and The Silicon Valley Spring User Group. Abdel is a frequent speaker at a number of developer conferences including JavaOne, JAX Conf, and OsCon, and many user groups and community events.
15.40-16.30
Ugly Code
It's said that without evil there can be no good and that without darkness, there can be no light. Is the same true of ugly and beautiful code? Maybe... but that's certainly not a question I'll be answering in this talk. Instead, we'll talk about ugly code, where it comes from, how to avoid it, and how to rid your codebase of it. And of course, I'll share some of my favorite anti-examples from The Daily WTF.
Alex Papadimoulis
Residing in Berea, Ohio, Alex Papadimoulis is partner at Inedo and helps drive the direction of Inedo's agile release automation suite, BuildMaster. In his spare time, he's the editor of The Daily WTF, a leading how-not to guide for developing software.
15.40-17.35
Why getting everyone on the same page matters
This is a hands on session into the world of visual thinking and practice.
You will learn 7 basic elements which enables you to communicate almost anything with simple strokes of a pen.
It is a powerful tool for thinking, learning and collaborating.
Re-learn and re-experience what it means to draw and visualize.
This session is for everyone hooked on creating understanding, engagement and ownership in projects, meetings and ideas.
Ole Qvist-Sørensen
Since founding Bigger Picture in 2003, Ole Qvist-Sørensen has been delivering consulting services in the areas of strategic communication, leadership training and change processes design and facilitation. The aim for every intervention is to enable ongoing sustainable organisational and personal change. The foundation for Ole's work is a strong pedagogical framework for team- and organisational learning. Ole is a trainer, process consultant and graphic facilitator.
8.30-9.45
Software won - so what now?
You guys have won. Software is eating the world. You are the emperors and are cutting through and reinventing industries one by one. Let's think what comes next. What should your minds and skills be focused on now in order to solve bigger, meaningful problems that beset us? And how can you lead the world into an era of abundance, of iterative trouble-shooting, of optimal management of our resources - in order to generate the greatest happiness for the greatest number?
David Rowan
David Rowan is editor of the UK edition of WIRED magazine, which won 2009 Launch of the Year at the British Society of Magazine Editors Awards. He writes the monthly “Digital Life” column in GQ magazine, and the “Tech Traveller” column in Condé Nast Traveller, in which he documents his encounters with the innovative people he meets at events such as TEDGlobal, DLD, Stream and Google Zeitgeist.
Thursday
13.00-13.50
Inside Information – How Visualizing the Human Body is Sparking a Revolution in Science Exhibits for Public Venues
Medical imaging techniques have advanced beyond recognition in the last few years. Ynnerman will explain how these systems, are now being adapted to provide public visitor venues, such as science centers and zoos with unique interactive experiences. Combining visualization techniques with interactive multi touch technology and intuitive UI, this is opening up new ways to interactively explore and learn about the inside workings of the human body, natural history subjects or even mummies.
Anders Ynnerman
Anders Ynnerman is the director of the Norrköping Visualization Center - C, which currently constitutes one of the main focal points for research and education in computer graphics and visualization in the Nordic region. He is also one of the co-founders of the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV) and he is serving as the chair of the scientific council for CMIV.
14.10-15.00
NOSQL FTW
In this session three NOSQL techniques will be demonstrated. RavenDB, Neo4j and MongoDB. Each speaker has 10 minutes to show you why and how NOSQL can be used. It is not difficult. It is not frightening. It’s fun.
After this session, you know more about which technique you should test and continue with.
And perhaps the three speakers invite us for an open discussion.
14.10-15.00
Touch it – don’t touch it
This lightning talk session will present you with cool and new technology. Flatfrog where already present at Øredev with a prototype 2011 and now they have the best multi touch screen ready for the market.
Tobii technology steer their screens by their eyes.
Perhaps some multinational company participates in this session and shows their latest technology too.
And perhaps we can get the first real look and feel of the Surface!
Not much more to say – if you like new technology you cannot afford to miss this one.
Tags: Creative Front end Fun Hands on Hard Core Rebel Tools UX
14.10-15.00
Rebels in their own way
Jakobsson was co-founder of TAT, acquired by RIM and has now stepped onwards with a new initiative. He loves working with his own processes. Processes that will be demonstrated.
Hughes created the Grobotron
Zed Shaw speaks for himself
Anything can, and certainly will happen. This is the lightning talk session for you who want a surprise.
20.00-21.00
The Rebels Come Out Online - What if the Internet is something much bigger than we think?
"What if the Internet is something much bigger than we think?"
Alexander Bard is one of the world's leading internet social theorists and the author of "The Futurica Trilogy" together with Jan Söderqvist. In this speech he will elaborate on the fact that out of all the codes and other digital information we stuff our machines with, something much more profound, something sentient, is emerging. The internet controls us, and possesses opur imagination and worldview, rather than the other way round.
Alexander Bard
Having made a habit of lecturing dressed in haute couture shorts and an impressive fin de siècle beard, scribbling his notes on huge whiteboards rather than parading just another predictable power-point presentation, the larger-than-life Alexander Bard's simultaneously entertaining and earth-shattering lectures have consistently topped the ratings at major business and management conferences around the world. And as any good speaker does, Bard takes pride in practicing the message he preaches.
Friday
11.10-12.00
The Art of Disciplined Creativity
Much like elite athletes, we need to exercise discipline to be able to get into the "zone" at at will and produce great results consistently. In this session, we will explore ideas and practices for regularly gathering sources of inspiration, eliminating blocks to more easily access creative states, prolong them, and leverage their power to develop and execute great work.
Denise Jacobs
Denise Jacobs adores being a Speaker, Author, Web Design Consultant and Creativity Evangelist. Most appreciated on Twitter as @denisejacobs for her “Great Resources”, she wrote The CSS Detective Guide, and contributed to InterAct with Web Standards and Smashing Book #3. Her articles encourage people to express their creativity as they Banish Their Inner Critic and Reignite Their Creative Spark. Her latest project encourages underrepresented groups to Rawk The Web by becoming visible web experts.
13.00-13.50
Whiteboarding for Testers, Developers and Customers too
How can testers spend more time doing productive testing and waste less effort preparing "useless" project documentation? Whiteboarding techniques enable powerful communication and collaboration without all the paperwork. Rob Sabourin has used whiteboarding to help identify technical risks, better understand user needs and to focus testing on what really matters to business stakeholders.
Robert Sabourin
Rob has more than thirty years of management experience, leading teams of software development professionals. A well-respected member of the software engineering community, Robert has managed, trained and mentored thousands of top professionals. He often speaks at conferences & writes on software engineering, testing, management, and internationalization. Author of I am a Bug!, the popular testing children’s book, Robert is an adjunct prof at McGill University & runs the consultancy AmiBug.Com
13.00-13.50
Async in C# 5.0 - No More Callbacks!
For modern connected apps, asynchronous programming is necessary to ensure responsiveness of devices and scalability of services. However, asynchronous programming tends to be a teeth-grinding quagmire of dynamically wired-up callbacks, busting any attempt at well-structured code and practically ensuring bugs and poor error handling. C# 5.0 changes all that. The new 'async' language feature along with futures/promises-based APIs bring back the good old imperative experience. Come see how!
Tags: Architecture Fun Mastery .NET
Mads Torgersen
Mads is the Program Manager for the C# Language at Microsoft, where he runs the C# design meetings and maintains the language specification. He has been one of the lead architects behind recent C# language features such as async and dynamic, and is on the design teams for Visual Basic and TypeScript. Before joining Microsoft in 2005 Mads worked as an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Aarhus and was part of the group that developed wildcards for Java generics.
15.20-16.10
The Future of Work is about being more Human - Gamestorming
Work, society, and technology are all changing at breakneck speeds. The systems we design for become more complex, work is changing from a solo activity to a team sport, where individuals, teams, partners, customers, ... need to work together. Cross-‐functional collaboration requires new skills and practices. How can you engage more people in the process, without losing the creative culture and energy that fuels the process?
Maarten Volders
Maarten Volders is the founder at Agileminds.be. Challenges in the creative digital economy like accelerating change, knowledge leveling and hyper-competition are forcing organizations to become highly adaptable, endlessly inventive and truly inspiring. A program based on continuous and validated organizational learning makes Agileminds a different kind of innovation accelerator. Maarten is a changemaker, innovator, and rulebreaker. Het just wants to have fun!
8.30-9.45
Tailwind/Headwind in the pursuit of the Fibre to All
Having founded 2x billion dollar companies before the age of 27, he is the only person to receive both "Global Leader of Tomorrow" + "Tech Pioneer" awards from The World Economic forum and, as far as we know, the only person to go to the White House, on official business, in shorts. Have spent the last 15 years to develop the "perfect" BSS/OSS to empower the build out of "Fiber to All". Jonas Birgersson will share some experiences from his adventures in IT/Telecom & more importantly gaming.
Jonas Birgersson
Having founded 2x billion dollar companies before the age of 27, he is the only person to receive both "Global Leader of Tomorrow" + "Tech Pioneer" awards from The World Economic forum and, as far as we know, the only person to go to the White House, on official business, in shorts. Have spent the last 15 years to develop the "perfect" BSS / OSS to empower the build out of "Fiber to All".Jonas "Birger" Birgersson will share some experiences from his adventures in IT / Telecom & more importantly gaming.
16.30-17.30
From Collective Intelligence to Collaborative Creation
Hojun Song is a tech-obsessed installation artist who is trying to advance both art and usable technology. In a fun keynote Hojun will share his rebellious experience from his most recent project: building and launching a satellite. In the past, almost all space programs have been led by governments and/or military institutions. Little have been initiated by amateur groups and/or individuals. Hojun Song thinks it's time to have a private connection between us and universe.
Hojun Song
Hojun Song is a tech-obsessed installation artist who is trying to advance both art and usable technology. In a fun keynote Hojun will share his rebellious experience from his most recent project: building and launching a satellite. In the past, almost all space programs have been led by governments and/or military institutions. Little have been initiated by amateur groups and/or individuals. Hojun Song thinks it's time to have a private connection between us and universe.
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