Agile Training in Austin

nbecker — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:37:41 GMT

For anyone interested in some really all-encompassing agile training in the Austin area, there’s a fantastic one coming up from March 24-26th at Headspring. All the topic details, schedule and registration info are here, but just a rough outline of the topics covered:

object oriented programming
SOLID principles
design patterns
dependency injection
team design on whiteboard
IDE tools and quickly navigating a codebase
Test-Driven Development
mocking
pair programming
refactoring
pain driven development
Domain Driven-Design
ORM
contributing to open source projects
harnessing the community for extreme growth and continuous learning
foundations of Agile
Continuous Integration:
- the "check-in dance" to ensure that code to be committed to a repository does not conflict with existing code or unit tests
- to make code repositories automatically integrate with build scripts to build the most current source to staging servers
- to make code repositories automatically integrate with build scripts to alert teams if any developer commits code that breaks any of the project's unit tests (thus keeping the source code free of bugs)
- to write deployment scripts to make separate databases from the project's schema at individual developer/pair-programming workstations and well as production and staging servers
- to write deployment scripts to roll out database changes as they occur at individual developer/pair-programming workstations and well as production and staging servers

I work directly with the instructor Matt Hinze who’s been doing this for a while now, and can attest to how awesome this class is -- he’s really on the ball with this stuff.

Blake Caraway and Duane Derouen Join Headspring Systems

BeyondStatic — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:17:51 GMT

Duane Derouen (blog) and Blake Caraway (blog) have joined the Headspring Systems team. Welcome guys! Both bring a lot of valuable experience to the team, and I look forward to working with them in all of our projects to come.

Nicholas Becker

Agile Training in Austin

Blake Caraway and Duane Derouen Join Headspring Systems