Workshop at Enterprise Data World 2010
Doing a workshop on Agile Database Development at Enterprise Data World 2010 at SF. See you there.
Doing a workshop on Agile Database Development at Enterprise Data World 2010 at SF. See you there.
Recently I have been thinking a lot about making specification and behavior expected about the database and the code that interfaces with the databases executable. The Behavior Driven Design has a lot of parallels in the database world.
Just finished writing a article about Behavior Driven Design applied to Databases or Behavior Driven Database Design. for Methods and Tools.
Japanese translation of "Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design" has been released, thanks to Yasuo Honda for the information. The Japanese version can be found here
Me, Andy, Jeff and Marjorie discuss how to keep a long running project fit in this Podcast, also on itunes. We discuss the management of technology, people, processes and tools on longer and more mature applications. Specific topics such as refactoring, knowledge management, innovation, staffing, production support and others are covered.
After a lot of frustration about my schedule, I have had to come to this conclusion, that I cannot physically make it to London, XP day.
I'm going to miss it. Nick Ashley is going to take up my spot and I know he will do a great job.
ThoughtWorks is going to be at Oracle Open World. I'm excited about this especially since it will give ThoughtWorks and Me to talk about software practices and how to apply these software practices to the database development world, off course I will talk about my books Refactoring Databases and Continuous Database Integration. ThoughtWorks will have a booth at "343 Moscone South" and I will be there on Nov 14.
I will presenting about Database Refactoring: Evolutionary Database Design at XP 2007 here is the Tutorial schedule
I will be presenting about Evolutionary Database Design and Database Refactoring at ThoughtWorks Master Class Series 2007 at Bangalore on May 19th and Pune on May 26. This will be the first time I will be presenting in India.
The Master Class Series is an annual seminar organized by ThoughtWorks India. It focuses on topics which are cutting edge, but the content of the seminars is drawn from real-life experiences on live projects. The presenters are all people with extensive hands-on experience and have delivered successful projects using the concepts they are talking about.
After finishing the first Refactoring Databases book. I started on a short ebook project, this book was going to tackle on a very specific technical topic mentioned in the first book. I wanted to write about all the specific scenarios and all the techniques I follow on the various projects.
The result of this effort was Recipes for Continuous Database Integration: Evolutionary Database Development, thanks to Martin Fowler for the title. This eBook laid out in a recipes kind of format provides various ways you can integrate you database into you development cycle and make evolutionary database development a fun thing to work with
Special thanks to my current ThoughtWorks project team, Andy Slocum in particular and Scott Ambler for all the help.
I have been working at ThoughtWorks for 8 years now, its a fun place to work. Reason I'm blogging about this, ThoughtWorks is hiring in the US, UK, Australia, India, China and Canada. So go ahead send your resume to work@thoughtworks.com
Last week I received the good news. The book I co-authored with Scott Ambler won the 2007 Jolt Productivity Award in the Technical Books category. I was dumb enough not to attend the awards ceremony and receive the award, anyway when I started on the book project couple of years back I was afraid if the book would do justice to the Martin Fowler signature series, under which this book appears. The Jolt award award and all the comments I have received from many people in the last year, put me at easy, give me the feeling that finally I can relax and not worry about letting down Martin's signature series.
I think the challenges of working with the database in an evolutionary manner, are finally getting the attention they deserve. ThoughtWorks won two awards at Jolt night, my book and dbdeploy and both of them related to the database area helping projects deliver in an Evolutionary manner. More about Jolt Awards can be found at www.joltawards.com
Overall it has been a good week, getting the news about the Jolt Productivity Award the appreciation and well wishes from all ThoughtWorkers, friends and family.
I had been on vacation for sometime. Started back work and getting connected with work and life again.