The inaugural Surrey Go User Group meetup was held in Dorking, England tonight. Attendees were a mixture of Go lang enthusiasts and other developer coming to learn what all the fuss is about Go. Kevin Golding presented the event. Kevin came to Go from a Node JS background. He has found Go to be extremely…
Dr. Axel Rauchmayer, Software Engineering Teacher of the Year 2015 Last year debuted the Teacher of the Year Award. I selected 5 candidates and there were two rounds of voting. After a close run contest and many votes, the Software Engineering Teacher of the Year 2015 Award went to Dr Axel Rauchmayer. Great though this…
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer Wins The last few months have built up to the final poll for the Software Engineering Teacher of the Year. The poll was extremely close for the first few days, with Erik Dietrich in the lead for a while, however many votes came in for Axel later and he ended up with…
The final Poll for the Teacher of the Year 2015 award is now closed. Many thanks for your votes. Our last 3 finalists are Dr. Axel Rauschmayer, Erik Dietrich and Tomas Petricek. You can see details of each of our finalists here: Dr. Axel Rauschmayer Erik Dietrich Tomas Petricek And the winner is… Dr. Axel…
Axel has been programming since 1985 and developing web applications since 1995. He held his first talk on Ajax in 2006, and has done extensive research into programming language design. He’s followed the state and future of JavaScript since its creation. Axel has taught software engineering at the University of Munich and web development as…
Kate Gregory is a a founding partner of Gregory Consulting Limited. She has over three decades of software development experience in a variety of programming languages including Fortran, PL/I, C++, Java, Visual Basic, and C#. One of the services her company provides is mentoring, such as getting old-school C++ programmers up to speed with modern…
Erik is a software architect, team leader and technologist. An active blogger with extensive experience teaching and demonstrating software development techniques, Erik’s has been recently focusing on the .NET framework, though over the years he has worked with C++, Java, and a number of other languages. His projects range from low level driver and kernel…
Steve McConnell has spent most of his career focused on educating software professionals. He’s written many critically acclaimed books, including: Code Complete, 1st and 2nd editions Rapid Development Software Project Survival Guide Professional Software Development Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art I’ve recently reviewed Code Complete 2nd edition myself, and am currently reading Rapid Development.…
Tomas Petricek is a long-term F# enthusiast, frequent conference speaker and co-authored “Real-World Functional Programming” with Jon Skeet. He gained his expertise in F# by contributing to its development while working as a contractor at Microsoft Research. He is a founder of DualNotion ltd. where he provides training and consulting services. His book Real World…
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