The ThoughtWorks Master Class series is an annual event that covers contemporary Software Development topics drawn from real world experiences. This year’s seminars will be held at Bangalore on the 19th of May, and at Pune on the 26th of May.
The topics this year are:
Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Development (Pramod Sadalage)
Pramod’s talk is based on his 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning book. He will be talking about aspects such as Database refactoring, Evolutionary data modeling, Database testing, Configuration management of database artifacts and Developer Sandboxes. Pramod pretty much pioneered most of the techniques we currently use to manage databases on our projects at ThoughtWorks, so I’m really looking forward to his talk.
Evolutionary Testing: Adapting to Changing applications (me)
More on this in my next post
Domain Specific Languages: Real World experiences (Akshay Rawat and Sreekanth Vadagiri)
Akshay and Sreekanth will be sharing their learnings about building DSLs on some of our projects. Apart from giving an overview of DSLs, they aim to answer some of the following questions:
- When are DSLs appropriate?
- What are the pitfalls?
- What does it take to implement DSLs?
If you’re in India and would like to register for either one of the seminars, the registration page is here. (There is no registration fee)
