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CUSEC 2006: Day 3/3

The final day of the conference started much later than the previous days. David Heinemeier Hansson, Rails founder, was supposed to present Ruby on Rails. Due to a snowstorm problem and planes locked down, Chad Fowler had to present it instead. I guess this was not really a problem for anyone as Chad is a good presenter after all.

  1. Ruby is a Toy and Rails is Boring, by Chad Fowler
  2. Software Startup, by Laurent Seiter
  3. Using Agile Methods to Deliver More Useful Software, by Unknown

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CUSEC 2006: Day 2/3

The second day of CUSEC started with only a few people. Most of the attendees decided to get a few more hours of sleep after yesterday’s party. They probably should have selected to coffee option, because they definetly missed a great session at 9. Here is the session lineup for the day:

  1. Considering AJAX, by Chris Laffra
  2. Modular Concurrency, by Peter Grogono
  3. Testing in a Creative Environment, by Karine Roy
  4. A Panacea or Academic Poppycock: Formal Methods Revisited, by Connie Heitmeyer
  5. Model Based Development of Advanced User Interface, by Peter Forbig
  6. Creating Passionate Users, by Kathy Sierra

As a side note, this entry has been written in multiple parts, so don’t bother if things don’t really fit together.

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CUSEC 2006: Day 1/3

I’m currently sitting in the Apple-sponsored Internet Cafe at CUSEC 2006 (Canadian Undergraduate University Software Engineering Conference). Thankfully, the wireless network is wide open and I don’t have to type from a Mac and an Aqua theme. I will mostly update this entry as the conference advances.

Here is the list of sessions I have attended to:

  • Fight the Traffic, by Chad Fowler
  • What Hollywood Taught me about Software Engineering, by Robert Sabourin
  • Software Testing as a Social Science, by Cem Kaner
  • Static Analysis Using the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform

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