On JAOO 2007 I could, with the help of Floyd, organize a debate between Bob Martin and James Coplien about TDD and DbC. This is the most interesting debate about the subject I’ve ever heard of. A lot of things I wanted to say have been said here. And I am proud to announce it

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/coplien-martin-tdd

Thanks Cope, thanks Bob.

It was striking to notice the important number of speech on software architecture at JAOO. Most of them – that’s interesting – placed in a natural way (sometimes implicitly) the architectural concerns in the contexts of Agile processes.
Without basically putting back into question the progress carried out thanks to agile methods, architecture was on the [...]

Marcel Molina Jr. – What makes code beautiful… and why does it matters?

Marcel Molina has a background in literature. He especially looks for comparisons between natural speech and programming languages.
One talks about beauty in Ruby or functional languages. What? Why?
He goes back through History to search what defines beauty.

Pythagoras found it in numbers. [...]

Part IV: Ilja Preuss – Find the Inner Doll

It is difficult to find a good definition of being a professional… Be paid for what you doing? Doing something for money? L
Ilja proposed us a metaphor about being a professional to answer what does it means.
Matrioshka: metaphor of the generations of a family. Layers of a [...]

Part III: Laurent Bossavit – A journeyman’s tale

Second session of the track “Professional Developer”
Laurent established a parallel between ancient craftsman’s guilds – especially French “Compagnonnage“, cathedral builders and other workers federations since the end XIth century – and software craft community: constituent parts of their identity (traditions, legacy of values, networking structure, tools…) can be [...]

Part II: Kevlin Henney – With Economy and Elegance

Wednesday morning, Kevlin Henney opened the track on “Professional Developer”.
He really is a pleasant speaker. After the success of this first session, his following session “Performance Art” was full.
These are the main points of his speech:
Definitions
“Our job is to turn a general purpose machine into a specific [...]

Part I: Robert C. Martin – Clean Code II: Craftsmanship and Ethics.
Do software developers feel comfortable with their profession? Many of us prefer to introduce themselves as architects or designers. Others expect to be Project Managers. Symptoms? Signs of a bad comprehension of our activity?
Bob Martin opened JAOO conference by introducing a track on the [...]

J’y serai ! Voici les sessions qui m’attirent à première vue… mais le choix est difficile !

Monday 

 Agility on the Edge  

 Five Things I Wish I Learned In College  

 Real-World Ruby  

 Solution Track: Virtualization for Developers  

 The .Net Road  

 The Programming Experience  

Host 

Jutta Eckstein  

Erik Meijer  

Glenn Vanderburg  

Rene W. Schmidt  

Joe Hummel

Markus Völter  

09:00 - 10:00  

Opening Keynote: [...]