I’ve posted the slides from my recent presentations at Utah Code Camp 2014. If you missed it, I’ll be presenting “Thinking in F#” at Boise Code Camp 2014 on April 5th and “Software Craftsmanship and Agile Code Games” at Mile High Agile 2014 on April 18th.
Check out these and previous sessions on my Sessions page.
I recently purchased these domains and while I have plans for them, I haven’t done anything yet. So I decided to just have them forward here to my blog for the time being.
The plan for CodeRandori.com is to have a “one stop” resource for what a Code Randori is, how to facilitate and some example problems to use.
I’m not entirely sure about AgileCodeGames.com I was thinking maybe to have a “Tasty Cupcakes”-like site but for coding games (like katas and randori and pairing games) but I’m not sure.
So what do you think? Any ideas on what to build at these domains beyond what I’ve planned?
So as I mentioned in a previous post, I’m working to expand my speaking footprint this year beyond Utah. This started out pretty well with a three session gig at Boise Code Camp which was a blast. There is a great dev community up in Boise and I plan on going back next year. I was able to attend Agile Games 2012 in Boston which was amazing. Need to do a write up on that soon before everything leaks out of my brain :) Again, more great people and I felt super enriched after the three days.
Unfortunately, around that time, my sessions were turned down for MADExpo and Chicago Code Camp. I was pretty bummed about it, more than I thought I would be. I plan to try again next year and market my sessions better. Need to figure out how to get more buzz words into my titles :)
Happily I have been accepted to Agile Roots. I’ll be running “Hands-on Group TDD with Randori” (title pending).
Additionally, I’ll be presenting at the Utah .Net User Group this Thursday (May 10, 2012) on “Linq (from the inside)”.
I’m still waiting on Portland Code Camp and Seattle Code Camp which I hope to still speak at. I’ll likely go to Portland Code Camp either way as we’ll be in Portland to visit family.
I am hoping to attend SCNA in Chicago in November. And that should round out the year. Should be exciting!
I had the opportunity to speak at Utah Code Camp again (my fourth code camp presenting Fall 2011 Spring 2011 Fall 2010) which was a lot of fun. Not sure if I would do three presentations again, but it was a lot of fun and I met a lot of great people.
If you attended one of my sessions, please take a minute to rate the session at SpeakerRate (not official eval… please do that too):
Here are the slide decks. Contact me with any questions!
The Randori starter project is available at https://github.com/mdclement/NumbersToLcdRandoriBase
The Code Katas session was presented as two slide decks. One with the introductory material and the other with the guided FizzBuzz kata.
The code base that I started from (tests and methods without implementation) is available at https://github.com/mdclement/Linq--from-the-inside--Presentation-Base
My name is Mike Clement. I'm a husband, father of four, a Latter-day Saint and currently a Distinguished Software Engineer at Hunter Industries.
Opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my company :)
Software on the Side is my blog about software development (coding, design and architecture), software development management, technology and leadership. Why "Software on the Side"? I guess there are a few meanings.
Sessions that I've presented (and can again!)
