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Software Craftsmanship 2010 Is Full

 

Well, you could have knocked me down with a feather. Barely 3 weeks after we opened registration and SC2010 is now full to bursting.

Big thanks to everyone who registered. You've done a great service to craftsmanship and Bletchley Park.

And commiserations to anyone who didn't manage to get a place. But please don't be downhearted. If you follow the SC2010 submissions blog, you'll get to see screencasts of the practical elements planned for every session (including any sessions that don't make it), which is almost as good as being there. Well, maybe not. But it's a start.

Just 14 Places Left At SC2010

 

Crikey! By the power of Twitter and InfoQ.

We've sold 106 of the 120 places at Software Craftsmanship 2010, and we're predicting we may be fully booked by the end of the week. Session proposals are starting to trickle in and I'm hearing some exciting things about session submissions that are in development as we speak.

This is going to be a unique experience, so please book now to ensure you get your place.

The evening's starting to shape up nicely, too. If you were planning on heading straight home after the conference, you might want to reconsider as we're laying on some fantastic diversions courtesy of generous sonsors like Eden Development.

SC2010 Tickets Selling Fast

 

Just a quick heads-up to anyone who's planning to join us at Software Craftsmanship 2010 on Oct 7th at Bletchley Park.

Places are going faster than expected, and we've sold two-thirds of the available spaces in less than two weeks, so we might be sold out in another week or two.

Codemanship Presents Test-driven Development

 

Jason Gorman demonstrates the basic practices of Test-driven Development in Eclipse, using JUnitMax to run the tests in the background



Visit http://www.codemanship.com for training and coaching in TDD, refactoring and OO design

Register For Software Craftsmanship 2010

 

Finally! You took your time, Jason!



Yes, Software Craftsmanship 2010 is open for business. You can register with your credit/debit card online for the jolly reasonable price of 85 quid. And, even better, all the profits from registration are going directly to help Bletchley Park.

We're also accepting submissions for sessions. The rules are simple:

1. Your session must involve a significant amount of live coding, and give participants the chance to do some coding, too
2. Your session must squeeze comfortably into a 30, 60 or 90 minutes slot
3. Your session must be about software craftsmanship (well, duh!)

Tutorials, katas, dojos, coding puzzles and games are all welcome. Maybe 30 minutes on seeing how many code smells we can cram into 100 lines of code. Or an hour playing Refactoring Golf. Or how about a 90-minute hands-on workshop on responsibility-driven design with TDD? Or pit your wits against your peers coding up battle bots in Ruby? If it gets everyone coding, and it can be done practically in the time and space provided, it's the sort of thing we're looking for.

To submit a session proposal, record a screencast of yourself demonstrating the practical elements (or practical illustrative examples, if the session is more exploratory) and post it on one of the many video or file hosting sites that abound these days (YouTube, Vimeo etc). Go to the SC2010 web site and fill out the submissions form, including links to your screencast videos.

You can submit and resubmit sessions as many times as you like up until the deadline (midnight on Sept 5th). After submissions have closed, everyone registered for SC2010 will be invited to vote for the sessions they'd most like to attend, based on your screencasts.

The most demanded sessions will find their way into the conference program, which will be announced on Sept 26th.

But don't worry if your session doesn't make it onto the schedule. SC2010 will leave plenty of space for ad hoc coding and discussion, both through open spaces and by making room for folk to sit down together and pair program outside of the sessions.

Whether you lead a session or not, you an be plenty busy with coding and sharing your experience and ideas throughout a packed day.

This what just some of the 100+ people who came to SC2009 had to say about the conference.



Couple that with the wonderful and historic surroundings of Bletchley Park, and we're sure SC2010 will be one of the best conference experiences you'll have this year.

Amazing Value Offer Ends Tomorrow - £2,400-worth of Software Craftsmanship Training For Under £400

 

Just a quick reminder about the amazing deal I'm offering - never to be repated - which ends this weekend with the final TDD master class of the summer.

Book a place on the TDD and Refactoring master classes, and your place on the OO design workshop on August 21-22 will be absolutely FREE.

Each course normally costs £799, so you'll make a saving of £2000 if you book all on all three before midnight tomorrow.

Not only that, but next weekend's refactoring master class is currently the only publicly scheduled dedicated refactoring training course anywhere in the world.

All the details can be found here: http://www.codemanship.co.uk/training.html

Object Oriented Design Master Class, London Aug 21-22

 

This summer's run of budget-friendly weekend master classes in software craftsmanship ends with a workshop on object oriented design on August 21-22.


In this very hands-on course, you'll learn about OO design principles (S.O.L.I.D. and more), using real code examples to illustrate how to refactor designs that violate these principles. You'll also get practical experience of using code analysis tools to measure OO design quality and detect problems more easily, even in large code bases. The workshop will also give you a chance to apply simple OO analysis and design techniques in a test-driven approach to development, as we as looking at how up-front design can be balanced with refactoring to produce optimal designs without falling into the shark-infested waters of "Big Design Up-Front" and "no conscious design at all".


As with all the workshops I'm running this summer, there'll be the minimum of talk from me and the maximum of hands-on practical experience and learning by doing, working in pairs with other attendees.


And - as if the price wasn't good enough already - everyone who attends both the TDD and refactoring courses will get to go on this one absolutely FREE. I must be mad! Book your place now before I change my mind!

This Week I Have Been Mostly Saving Bletchley Park

 

Well, what a week it's been.

The weekend had me running a Test-driven Development master class, which seems to have been a success. Many of those who attended are now booked on future courses, so I guess that's the best measure of customer satisfaction I can get.

(Don't forget, there's another TDD master class on July 17-18, with a couple of places still available, and a refactoring master class the following week.)

Then on Tuesday I was at Bletchley Park with the legendary Johnny Ball (a very nice man and a force of nature) to launch the Boffoonery digital download, which I've been busy promoting on Twitter, Facebook and around and about the countryside ever since. It's currently #5 in the iTunes comedy albums chart, which is fantastic. But with such a great line-up, and produced and directed by such talented people (not including myself), maybe I shouldn't be so surprised. A tweet from Stephen Fry helped put a good wind behind our sails on Tuesday, but hundreds more of you have been very supportive with your tweets

At £8 for 63 minutes of comedy gold, it's a bargain in of itself. And for every download, Bletchley Park gets 5 quid, and potentially another 20 quid of lottery funding. So every download makes a difference.

All in all, a very tiring, but equally satisfying, week.

Early Bird Offer For TDD Master Class, July 17-18

 

Just a quick note to mention that the TDD master class on July 17-18 in London is starting to fill up now.

If you confirm your booking before midnight on Friday (July 2nd), you'll receive a free online one-on-one coaching session worth £100.

TDD master Class July 17-18 Early Bird Offer

 

Just a quick reminder about the early bird special offer on the TDD master class that's happening in London over the weekend of July 17-18.

Book before midnight on Friday (July 2nd) and you'll qualify for a free one-hour onlie coaching session worth £100.

These workshops are proving popular, and demand for places has been very encouraging (hence a second TDD master class).