Notes about this blog, itself.
As a longtime associate of ThotSpots, I regularly contribute to their blog as well my own. Here are two recent examples:
Why Having a “Backlog” Sucks the Life Out of a Project
Put Your Wisest Developers on Maintenance, Not the Rookies
Click here for the complete list of my contributions over the years: http://www.thotspots.com/author/craig/
This weekend was yet another Code Camp that came off without a hitch. I learned things. I got inspired. I made new friends. I won a raffle prize.
It’s time already to start preparing for the next one in January, at Cal StateFullerton.
I gave two speeches this time. Here are the slides (as a PDF) for the Introduction to Groovy talk I gave today at Code Camp. And, here are the slides (as a PDF) and the 1-page handout for the Simplicity Appreciation 101 talk. As always, feedback is appreciated.
The next SoCal Code Camp is coming up fast. It’s the weekend of October 15 & 16 on the campus of USC. I will be giving two presentations. One talk is entitled “Groovy and Groovy++, In Case You’re Curious” and the other is an encore of my “Simplicity Appreciation 101” talk from the January Code Camp (at Cal State Fullerton). (Full descriptions below.)
Both of my presentations are on Sunday the 16th in room GFS-107.
For the complete Code Camp schedule, see http://www.socalcodecamp.com/schedule.aspx Continue reading Code Camp Schedule Posted
Here are the slides (as a PDF) and the 1-page handout for the speech I’m giving tonight at Agile SoCal. It’s entitled Simplicity Appreciation 101. (Note: These materials have been revised greatly since I debuted the topic at Code Camp last January.)
The second week of the month is always busy for me. On Wednesday, I reconnected with Barbara Nelson of Pragmatic Marketing when she spoke at the Orange County APLN meeting in Irvine. It was the first time I’d seen her since she taught my Pragmatic Marketing class years ago. (We were both at the 1-day project managers conference at UC Irvine in February, but failed to connect.)
It was another great APLN meeting. For one thing, I snagged a laminated copy of the new-and-improved Pragmatic Marketing Framework chart, the one that shows the 37 different areas of responsibility of product marketing management. This chart served as the base layer for most of the slides that Nelson presented, as she talked about different roles within product marketing and the impact of Agile on those roles. (More on that in a future post.)
The next night, I attended the Orange County Java User Group meeting where Josh Long stood in for Rod Barlow and gave a thorough review of the state of concurrency in the Java world and how they take advantage of it at Shopzilla. I picked up more than a few pointers. The OCJUG presentation calendar page has a link to the complete slideshow.
Next week, I’m participating in the kickoff for a new Scrum adoption project, so there will be plenty of things going on shortly to inspire new posts. In the mean time, I’m also looking forward to the Orange County GTD Meetup next weekend.
I’ve been listening to advice that says I need to push my own “personal brand,” and starting this new blog is the first step. To get the ball rolling, I’ll be cross-posting references to my writings that are elsewhere on the web, but soon enough I’ll flip-flop and the original posts will be posted here first. Eventually, this will become one-stop-shopping for my online presence. In the mean, please continue to look for my previous posts on http://www.thotspots.com and http://www.codejacked.com.