Scrum is the new, hot buzzword when it comes to process these days. Grace Francisco talks over lunch with Ellie Powers, Program Manager with the Hotmail team to find out more about Scrum and its benefits. Hear her real world feedback on using it in projects and the challenges you …
I caught up with the venerable Erik Meijer recently to discuss functional programming languages, academic versus real-world application of functional programming languages (there are very good reasons why people don’t program Windows applications in, say, Haskell…) and, well, Erik. Why does Erik work here? What’s his history? Of course, as …
Bertrand Meyer is a programming language guru, computer scientist and arguably the uncle of object oriented programming Smiley. Bertrand created the Eiffel programming language. Eiffel is an object-oriented language that is based on a fixed set of powerful principles like Design by Contract and Command-Query Separation. It’s a very powerful …
This session is a practical introduction to building Android applications using the SDK and developer tools. We’ll walk through building a non-trivial application and use it as the basis for discussing the various facets of the Android application framework. Related resources Android official website Develop Android applications with Eclipse tutorial …
Professor Hadar Ziv, with the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) at UC Irvine, has 20+ years of experience in academia and industry. Most recently, he presented his work at Google, Northrop Grumman, and the Southern California SPIN, and served on the program committee of the ROSATEA 2007 …