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Advanced Groovy Tips and Tricks
Ken Kousen presents advanced Groovy features, such as closure coercion, mixins, simple runtime metaprogramming, operator overloading, drop and take, overlooked methods in the Groovy JDK, and more.
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Leading a Learning Organization
Andrew Clay Shafer discusses how leadership and organizational learning can be used as a competitive advantage, covering various topics: Agile, DevOps, Lean Startup, Cynefin, Systems Thinking, etc.
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Offer Hope to Your Staff: Build a Culture of Learning
Sarah Novotny discusses how leaders encourage and foster an environment that rewards learning while meeting business needs.
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Games for Learning about Conflict
Ellen Grove presents a model for conflict recognition and resolution using practical games that teams can use to help clarify differing viewpoints and seek resolution.
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Making Software Development Make Sense to Everyone
Jen Myers discusses the need to make software development attractive and accessible to a larger audience, improving the overall development and learning process in order to have better programmers.
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Everything I Have Learned I Have Learned From Someone Else
David Nolen keynotes on how developers learn as seen in a number of diverse examples drawn from objected oriented user interface programming to constraint logic programming.
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Don’t Trust Your Brain
Paolo Perrotta discusses the difficulties encountered while learning a new and quite different programming language, in his case Clojure, comparing it with Java and Ruby.
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Groovy for Fun and Profit
Ken Kousen presents a variety of small but non-trivial examples of Groovy in action, using techniques ranging from closures to parsers and slurpers to metaprogramming and AST transformations.
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Grails Goodness
Ken Kousen teaches the fundamentals of Grails through examples: domain classes, controllers, transactional services, producing XML and JSON data, Ajax, unit and integration testing, plugins.
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Using Group Research to Answer Complex Questions
Joanna Zweig leads a workshop for practicing Cooperative Inquiry, a group learning technique meant to provide answers to complex questions based on group’s wisdom and knowledge.
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Building a Learning Organization (from any level)
Matt Barcomb discusses “amplifying learning”, focusing on setting up learning environments and common organizational pitfalls.
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Discovery Curves, Group Learning and Delivering
Joanna Zweig and César Idrovo discuss Discovery Curves - a model to chart a team’s ability to learn-, and a group improvement process using past experiences and identifying common characteristics.