Author: Alexander Thurow
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Next „Thoughts“ talks in 2025
Currently the following 2025 „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development – Observations From a 20-Year Journey“ have been confirmed or are in the scheduling stage:
- 09.07.2025 JUG Paderborn (confirmed, remote)
The talk’s sources can be found here.
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Talk on 30.01.2025 at JUG Stuttgart
On 30.01.2025 I held the extended version of my talk „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development – Observations From a 20-Year Journey” at JUG Stuttgart (offline and in German).
The talk’s sources can be found here, the related Meetup post is located at:
https://meetu.ps/e/NLTNH/PkQNm/i
The event location was:
Optica Abrechnungszentrum Dr. Güldener GmbH
Marienstraße 10
70178 StuttgartGoogle Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/dpjT3muW92RQRkT7A?g_st=im
During the talk additional sources were introduced to the audience:
- Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design: https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html
- Gunter Dueck about „Estimations“: https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/109596189172698793
- Uncle Bob about „The Future of Programming“: https://youtu.be/ecIWPzGEbFc
- Dan McKinley „Choose Boring Technology“: https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
- John Allspaw about „Postmortems“: https://youtu.be/xA5U85LSk0M
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New “Talks” page has been created
The new page contains overview information related to the talks I have been creating over the years.
Motivation
More information about the motivation behind the talks and their history can be found here.
Contact
In case of questions or further interest, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
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Talk on 04.12.2024 at JUG Karlsruhe
On 04.12.2024 I held the extended version of my talk „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development – Observations From a 20-Year Journey” at JUG Karlsruhe.
The talk’s sources can be found here and the related Mastodon post is located at:
https://mstdn.social/@alexthurow/113516634871535994
The event location was:
Synyx GmbH & Co. KG (Gläserne Softwarefabrik)
Brauerstraße 12a
76135 KarlsruheGoogle Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/A9johyNBi7Uh9xz87
During the talk additional sources were introduced to the audience:
- Thread related to „Kent Beck – Extreme Programming Explained“
- Toot related to the XP „Circle Of Life“
- Talk by „Richard Sheridan“ related to „Joy, Inc.“ + thread
- Talk by „Arlo Belshee“ related to „Promiscuous Pairing“
- Thread related to „Baldur Bjarnasson – Out Of The Software Crisis“
- Thread related to „Timothy Clark – The 4 Stages Of Psychological Safety“
- Thread related to „Felienne Hermans – The Programmer’s Brain“