Continuous Delivery in Practice

Presented by Roberto Hernandez

Learn the basic concepts behind continuous delivery, a software development strategy that optimizes your delivery process to get high-quality, valuable software delivered as quickly as possible. In addition, learn how to leverage current build and continuous integration technology to support the continuous delivery process.

Currently a Managing Consultant for Excella. I have been designing and writing software solutions using Microsoft technology for the past 12 years. I am originally from the Dominican Republic, and the proud father of two beautiful daughters that make my life special.

There will be no March meeting of RV.NUG.

We look forward to seeing you in April!

The Free Lunch is Over: What You Need to Know about Parallelism

Presented by Stuart Leitch

Single thread CPU performance improvements have largely stalled out. The sequential performance “free lunch” most developers enjoyed from hardware advances is over. With the industry shift to multiple core systems, performance has to be realized through concurrency and many developers will find themselves building applications designed to scale as the number of cores increases.  This session will provide a broad review of the trends in parallelism and an overview of major patterns for parallelizing your applications.

Stuart Leitch is a Charlottesville based developer working for Growing Technologies. He spent most of the last 7 years running Grove Creations, a small Melbourne based consultancy focused on developing WinForm applications for a variety of Australian clients. Since winding down Grove Creations and migrating to America 2 years ago, Stuart has relinquished the role of small business owner to pursue fulltime the art and science of software craftsmanship.

Unleashing your code-fu with code katas

Presented by Perry Neal

We've all heard that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to "master" a skill.  What they neglect to mention is that it takes 10,000 quality, effective hours of practice to master that skill. In software development, we "practice" on the job.  And, usually, it's doing the same things, over and over, day in and day out.  In this presentation you'll be provided with resources and techniques that will help you "practice" software development more effectively - in only 30 minutes a day!

Perry Neal has been developing software for twelve years.  He's worked on everything from single-user Visual Basic 6 desktop applications to enterprise ASP.NET applications for the U.S. Army (but somehow managed to avoid classic ASP).  He currently works for a medium-sized company moving all their applications from Microsoft Access to .NET.