In my ongoing efforts to get my blog up to date…

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Earlier this year (April 15th, 2014 – Tax Day!) I was invited to speak at the Ft. Worth .NET Users Group – it’s a great group and a fun community, if you’re in or around the Ft. Worth area you should really check out their upcoming meetings!  Here is a link to the slides that go along with this talk

Enjoy!

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Two years ago I gave the key note at the Tulsa Tech Fest – it was a lot of fun and I’m excited to be presenting there again this year!

This year I’ll be giving 3 talks.

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Scaling Scrum with UX and other Key Players

Scrum is the most popular Agile framework in the world for effective team collaboration on complex projects. Scrum provides a small set of rules that create just enough structure for teams to be able to focus their innovation. Scrum is optimized for teams for teams of 5 to 9 people. Making Scrum work with larger teams or in large enterprise environments brings its own set of challenges. This talk presents 3 patterns used on enterprise teams to scale Scrum effectively with global teams.

Update: The Slides are now on slide share.

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Modern Web Development: Testable WebForms with Model View Presenter Pattern (MVP)

The world is moving towards ASP.NET MVC.. but what about your legacy WebForms development. What are the things you can do today to make your WebForms more testable, reliable and even increase the SEO and usability of your WebForms. This talk will walk through applying the Model View Presenter pattern to your ASP.NET WebForm applications and introduce you to some additional enhancements that Microsoft has made to WebForms recently to make your site and life that much better!

Update: The slides are now on slideshare.

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Prototype, Collaborate, Innovate

A UX Story from the worlds most used white labeled travel site. How we use Sketches, Prototyping and Innovation Games to collaborate with our customers and experience innovation breakthroughs.

Update: The slides are on slideshare!

 

Hope to see you there!

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I’m still playing catch up from my posts.

Last year I got to speak at the first ever Cow Town Code Camp.. it was awesome. This year they invited me back for the 2014 Cow Town Code Camp.

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I attempted to cover an extremely aggressive topic.  Refactoring ASP.NET WebForms to MVP, to MVC, to an Angular SPA application… if you think that sounds like too much to do in a single talk – you’d be right! We got as afar as implementing a Model View Presenter pattern in ASP.NET WebForms.

The great part is that I’ve pulled three new talks out of this one:

  • Making Testable WebForms (Implementing MVP in WebForms)
  • WebForms to MVC (without the MVP stop)
  • MVC to AngularJS

I’m looking forward to really flushing these talks out in the near future!

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Slides are here. Enjoy!

If you’ve been following my tweets lately (protip: you should be Winking smile ) , you might have noticed that I’ve been retweeting about the next Hack event in Dallas, the Windows Kinect Hack Event. Follow the live tweet from this event with the Hashtag #iDevThis

 

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What is Windows Kinect?

Well, it’s a lot like the Kinect device for XboxOne, only it’s designed to be used by Windows applications.

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I’m really excited about this event for a couple of reasons.

  1. I was asked to be Judge – Awesome. I’m not really a judgmental person per se.. but this should be fun. I have a hard time thinking of ideas that would be uniquely suited for Windows, as apposed to generalized games that are equally suited for XBox and Windows. I’m excited to see the ideas that come out of this event and the development that happens.
  2. Developer events like this are a lot of fun, you meet some neat people and usually have a fun time learning together. (community FTW!)
  3. My son is going with me. While Noah hasn’t done a lot of coding, he recently got turned on to game development with Unity and so I’m excited to see what he thinks of developing apps for the Kinect.
  4. It’s at the DEC. I’ve heard this is a great venue – and it is!! Also, my friend Jennifer help start the DEC a while ago and I just haven’t had an opportunity to get over here yet.

Update: Packed House!!

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Judging doesn’t start until around 7pm on Saturday, so even if you haven’t participated in the event – I think you can still swing by and check out all of the work that was done.

See you there!

Update: Read Jason’s (Microsoft’s Technical Evangelist) overview of the whole event. From his post..

15 teams presented their projects on Saturday night in front of the judging panel. The projects ranged from scanning your body measurements, detecting head nods for paraplegics on into video games and educational apps. The ideas, innovation and level of execution on these projects was nothing short of amazing and mind-blowing. I could tell by how long it took the judges to come out with the results, that their job was indeed difficult in choosing the winners.

I couldn’t agree more!

Ok, I’m late.. like really late on posting this – so late, in fact, that the Big Design Conference 2014 is right around the corner! I realize that’s it’s been a year since I’ve updated my blog (sorry about that). A LOT has happened in the last year and I hope to post about some of those things in the near future. Until then, here at least is part of my attempt to play catch up.

Last year I spoke at the Big Design Conference. It was my 5th time speaking there. I continue to be impressed by the organizers and growth of this conference. The Big Design Conference is quickly becoming a “go to” international UX conference.

One of the highlights from me, is that I got to take my entire team to the pre-conference workshops. I attended the “Workshop Workshop” – basically the awesome Russ Unger was teaching facilitation techniques while also teaching some of the team exercises from his “Designing the Conversation” book. I’m always leery of trying to teach two different things at the same time, but Russ pulled this of beautifully.

I spoke on prototyping and collaborating, sharing some of the techniques that we were using at GetThere (I spent last year leading the UX product design team for GetThere). Here are the slides from my talk:

 

If you haven’t picked up Todd Zaki Warfel’s Prototyping book – go get it! Between his book and the Innovation Games book you’ll get the meat that I had to leave out of my short talk.

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Enjoy!

Speaking in Israel

May 5, 2013    Category: Events, News   1 Comment »

This week I’ll be giving two talks and leading a workshop at the Sela Developer Practice in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

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I will be covering

I’m really excited about this conference, it’s the largest Microsoft Conference in Israel and so far is turning out great. I flew in earlier today, my host met me at the airport and drove me to the hotel where the conference will be at – awesome hospitality!

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As I write this I’m sitting at the hotel restaurant over looking the Mediterranean Sea eating my dinner. It’s amazing to be in a country that I’ve heard of my whole life and now am actually here. Awesome.

Update (Monday): Thanks for everyone that came to my “10 Reasons Software Sucks” session today – here are the slides!

Update (Tuesday): Had a great turn out for “Scaling Scrum” today, thanks for all of the great conversations and interaction. Here are the slides.
Also, a local presenter got sick yesterday, and so we added “Coding Naked – TDD on the edge” as a last minute addition – I hope that everyone that attended had as a much as I did! Here are those slides.

I’m looking forward to seeing everyone in my Software Craftsmanship workshop tomorrow!

See the rest of the photos..

Scaling Scrum to the Enterprise

April 9, 2013    Category: Events   1 Comment »

Last Wednesday I had the privilege of presenting “Scaling Scrum to the Enterprise” at the North Dallas .NET Users Group.

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This is one of my favorite talks lately, for anyone doing Scrum, especially in heavily matrixed organizations where you have enterprise level people working across multiple teams and don’t seem to fill well in the 3 roles defined by “out of the box” Scrum.. then this talk for you. Here is the description:

Scrum is the most popular Agile framework in the world for effective team collaboration on complex projects. Scrum provides a small set of rules that create just enough structure for teams to be able to focus their innovation. Scrum is optimized for teams for teams of 5 to 9 people. Making Scrum work with larger teams or in large enterprise environments brings its own set of challenges. This talk presents 3 patterns used on enterprise teams to scale Scrum effectively with global teams.

If you were able to attend, I would sure love to hear your feedback. Thanks!

Last Saturday, I had the privilege of presenting at the first ever Cow Tow Code Camp in Ft. Worth, TX! We were in the beautiful corporate headquarters of Pier 1 – I had an absolute blast! My presentation was “Coding Naked – TDD on the Edge” Which is a look at the fundamentals of Test Driven Development, with a special look at the road blocks that most people run in to when adopting TDD and some practical approaches to overcome those roadblocks. This talk is a part of a series of talks that focus on Software Craftsmanship and reducing technical debt.

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Special thanks to the organizers and to everyone that came out and made it a great day!

Speaking at Dallas Day of .NET

February 7, 2013    Category: Events   No Comments »

Tomorrow, I’ll be presenting at the 3rd annual Dallas Day of .NET.

You can see my talk at 3:45 in the “Executive Track” – I really have no idea what that title title implies. My talk will be on Scaling Scrum to the Enterprise. If this is a challenge that you have ever faced, you should swing by!

Here’s a picture from one of my slides:

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It’s going to be a lot of fun!

 

The line up of presenters is impressive! (for some reason, I ‘m not listed on the site  Sad smile)

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Scott Hunter – who leads the Microsoft ASP.NET Product team that Scott Hanselman, Damian Edwards and Steven Sanders work on.

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Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin, of .NET Rocks! fame.

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Nick Landry, friend and fellow Microsoft MVP is a Senior Product Manager at the helm of Infragistics mobile and data visualization developer tools across multiple technologies and platforms.

Plus Chris Love, Daniel Egan, Jimmy Bogard, Jeff Palermo, Shawn Weisfeld, Ryan Lowdermilk, Atley Hunter.. and those are just the guys that I know! This is going to be an amazing two days in Dallas with this wild group of presenters. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to stay for Saturday.. I’ve just got too much on my plate with my new job and traveling for 2 weeks this month!

Hope to see you there, and I’m looking forward to meeting the rest of the presenters and attendees.. be sure to say hi!

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Tomorrow (October 12th) Caleb will be at the Tulsa Tech Fest delivering the keynote. This is the 7th year for the Tulsa Tech Fest and each year it get’s better! Normally bringing in 500 to 1000 attendees and over 64 available sessions, this event is a great opportunity to learn and grow with tracks covering every topic from Database Design to Social Media, UX to Advanced Coding practices and IT Pro infrastructure to Windows 8, Cloud and Mobile!

Caleb will be speaking on the 10 Reasons that Software Sucks with an election year twist!

If you’re in the Tulsa area – this would be a great conference to attend – be sure to stop by and say hi! Also, If you attend the keynote – We’d love your feedback on SpeakerMix!

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