cyber-dojo Skillsmatter podcast

I had the pleasure of running a Cyber-Dojo at Skillsmatter's 2 day Progressive Java tutorial last week. The session was video'd and is available here.

requiem for C head cam

At the ACCU 2012 conference Uncle Bob gave his excellent keynote Requiem for C. Skillsmatter video'd the whole keynote and it will be available soon. As an experiment Uncle Bob gamely agreed to wear a Go Pro 2 head camera whilst giving the keynote! So here, possibly for the first time ever, are a few rough clips of what it's like to give a keynote.

THE Secret of Scrum

This is another fragment of the ALE conference lightning talk I did. It again follows on from Jerry Weinberg's quote:

No other observation skill may be more important to software engineering than precision listening.

I've tried to become a much better listener in recent years. An active listener. One of the things I've noticed is that software developers are somewhat prone to treat things as being black and white. True or false. Right or wrong. This is perhaps not so surprising for several reasons. Anyway, the point of the clip is not really to poke fun at Scrum, but to highlight the use of the word THE.

QCon Deliberate Practice video

Videos are like buses. None for ages then two come along at once. I did this talk, on Deliberate Practice at the QCon conference in London earlier in the year (it's only just been put online). It's an extension of my 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know entry.

In the brain of me

Here's a video of the SkillsMatter talk I did on Thursday, titled "Stuff I'm starting to know now that I really wish I'd known 20 years ago". Its loosely based on the theme of Making The Invisible More Visible, one of my entries from the book, 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know. I completely botched what I was trying to say about courage. What I was trying to say was that courage is not the absence of fear.

My other SkillsMatter talk was based on Do More Deliberate Practice my other entry in the 97 Things Book.

This was the first run of quite a lot of new material so I was quite nervous, but I felt most of it went very well. Here's some of the feedback.

• Fun, informative, useful
• An interesting brain dump
• Entertaining and enlightening
• Very good. Thoughtful and interesting
• Great content - very interesting
• Great laid back presentation
• Interesting ideas and great presentation to go with it
• Well planned presentation, not just your standard powerpoint
• Very good talk. Inspiring
• Very interactive and well explained
• Clear explanations, good analogies, funny
• Fantastic
• Very good. Passionate speaker. Good insights

In the brain of Jon Jagger - Deliberate practice

Here's a video (and slides) of my SkillsMatter Deliberate practice talk. This is a much extended version of the 97 Things lightning talk I did at Javazone recently. I've been known to break cameras and mirrors in the past so they wisely filmed it in very low light... :-}

JavaZone 2010: 97 Things Lightning Talk - Do more deliberate practice

Here's a video of the lightning talk - Do more deliberate practice (one of my entries in the book 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know) I did at the recent Javazone conference. It's about how deliberate practice relates to agility.

cyber-dojo video - Roman Numerals Coding Kata in Ruby

Here's a video of me demonstrating the cyber-dojo website by doing the Roman Numerals kata in Ruby.