{"id":493,"date":"2012-12-15T18:55:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T01:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameskovacs.com\/2012\/12\/15\/devteach-montreal-2012-wrap-up\/"},"modified":"2012-12-15T18:55:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T01:55:23","slug":"devteach-montreal-2012-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/15\/devteach-montreal-2012-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"DevTeach Montreal 2012 Wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Montreal<\/p>\n

A big thanks to everyone who attended my sessions earlier this week at DevTeach. When I give a presentation, my success criteria is that I get you excited enough to continue investigating the topic yourself. So an extra special thanks to all the attendees who took the time to talk to me afterwards. I obviously got some of you excited enough to continue learning what I was talking about! Awesome!!!<\/p>\n

Another reason I love conferences is hanging with my peeps. I had a great time catching up with friends old and new in scenic, if somewhat cold, Montreal. Kudos to Jean-Ren\u00e9 Roy for putting on another fantastic conference.<\/p>\n

Git Dojo<\/h3>\n

\"201212151800.jpg\"The week started off with the fun-filled and action-packed Git Dojo with me on keyboards and Jessica Kerr<\/a> on vocals and whiteboard. We even had a drummer, Howard Dierking<\/a>, sit in for a set – attempting to wreak havoc on the repo when he .gitignore’d the Markdown files. The dojo was saved when he disappeared in a Spinal Tap-esque explosion<\/a> midway through the set.<\/p>\n

If you want to check out the Git Dojo yourself, you can clone the git-happens repo<\/a> and follow along with the notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Emergent Architecture with TDD\/BDD<\/h3>\n

\"201212151804.jpg\"I had a lot of fun with this session talking about the failure of UML as a design tool -though a great whiteboarding language. The holy grail of software design is the executable specification, which can be achieved with TDD\/BDD. Executable specifications have the nice property of not only validating business requirements, but making it possible to validate non-functional requirements. I talked about some agile principles and techniques for good measure because that’s what I do. This led to the following tweet:<\/p>\n

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If something hurts, do it more. Deployments, tests, do it more often and fix the problems that make it painful. #DevTeach<\/a> @jameskovacs<\/a><\/p>\n

— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) December 11, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n