Cake Solutions Software Development Podcast
By Cake Solutions Ltd
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Podcast Description
Keep up to date with Cake's series of exciting podcasts covering the latest software development techniques and processes.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoSpring in Scala Webinar - Jan Machacek | In this Spring in Scala webinar, Jan Machacek will start by comparing Scala to the other languages on the Java platform. Find out that Scala code gets compiled to regular Java bytecode, making it accessible to your Spring code. You will also learn what functional programming means and how to see & apply the patterns of functional programming in what we would call enterprise code. In addition to being functional language, Scala is strongly typed language. The second part of the webinar will therefore explore the principles of type systems. You will find out what polymorphic functions are, and what the Scala wizards mean when they talk about type covariance and contravariance. Throughout the talk, there will be plenty of code examples comparing the Spring bean in Java with their new form in Scala; together with plentiful references to the ever-growing Scala ecosystem, the talk will give you inspiration & guidance on using Scala in your Spring applications. Come over and find your functional mojo! | 26 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoAgility in a time of Austerity | The talk explores strategic and practical financial implications, management and control of agile projects. We include a brief introduction to the core principles of agile (the continuous refinement, product backlog, release plan) and the execution (the sprint planning and review). Once that’s out of the way, we explore the financial perspectives, both internal and external, from how to manage suppliers and implement agile based contracts, to setting project budgets and estimating ‘cost to completion’. In these times of austerity, we also show how agile can secure a ‘more for less’ return on proposed expenditure. This talk is aimed at board level decision makers, providing them with an overview of the agile approach from a business perspective and its financial implications, whilst also suited to business analysts, team leaders and project managers in highlighting initial and ongoing financial aspects of development projects that are crucial to executing a ‘successful’ result for the business. They will learn why traditional approaches to projects are haunted by the reality of weak underpinning economic frameworks and poor financial thinking, leading to inappropriate and ultimately over spent budgets, how to manage agile projects with financial dexterity providing transparency and visibility of spend versus value, and ultimately why the underpinning philosophies, culture and structure of the agile approach significantly reduces financial and technical risk. The talk combines research, practical experience and Cake’s own insights of ‘pay as you go’ into an agile financial model providing a rigorous and new perspective of why agile is the way forward. | 20 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoBreakthrough Development Teams - Ian Brookes - Cake Solution | At the heart of a development project success, you will often find an inspired team of individuals who have united to form a high performance team that is energised, producing outstanding and innovative results. The team is transformed from a collection of individuals into a single entity with a shared identity, focus and purpose. This team achieves a Breakthrough – a ground breaking result, a unique achievement never realised before, and then goes on to make its mark with further notable performances and impacts. Drawn from our own research in a number of agile case studies as well as other Breakthrough Team successes in sport, the emergency services and the military, we’ve developed the resulting insights into a framework to build a Breakthrough Team in your organisation, which we’ll share with you at this session. | 24 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoCake Solutions - SPRING ROO - JAN MACHACEK | Jan Macháček's Spring Roo talk will introduce you to the ideas behind Roo and their technical implementation. The talk will show you the main architectural choices of the Roo applications, explain the Spring configuration under the hood. Looking beyond the usual object-oriented Spring code, Jan will show you how Roo understands the structure of the application using the source-level annotations and how it separates out the custom code from the code it generates using the intra-type Aspects. To demonstrate all this, Jan will be showing you how to use Roo to rapidly prototype your application and, once that's done, how to take your application beyond the prototype. To close, Jan will discuss the question on everyone's mind: "is Roo worth it?" | 30 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoScala, Akka and mbed Microcontroller | A podcast showing Akka REST application running in Tomcat 7 with mbed microcontroller as the client. | 30 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoScala Eye for the Java guy | Combining Java and Scala in your Spring-based applications | 30 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoSpecs2 Spring | A podcast showing how to create Spring-based Scala application and how to test it using Specs2 Spring. | 30 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoSpecs2 Spring Web | Acceptance specifications of Spring applications implemented in Specs2 Spring Web | 30 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoCake Talent - Service Overview | Looking for an informed conversation about your next project or career challenge? With Cake Talent it’s not just about your up-to-date CV, scanning current vacancies or playing roulette on the job boards. We’re technical led talent scouts, working with folks who share what we do for a living, collaborating in communities and networks as everyday activities – clients and developers alike. | 30 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoCloud Software Delivery Services from Cake Solutions | Cloud Development Services Cloud computing promised to be the revolution in how we create and run software. In essence, cloud computing is simply a network of computers that cooperate on providing some service; a network that can easily recover from failure of its components; a network that can increase its processing power simply by adding more computers to it. In practice, such a network is almost always made up of virtualised environments. This gives us the ability to add new “computers” to the network within seconds, and to distribute the storage of data amongst the computers. Virtualised cloud computing infrastructure represents resource that is resilient and that can scale up to deal with peaks in demand very quickly. Over the last few years, the computer industry became expert in building cloud infrastructure. Unfortunately, not many applications successfully took advantage of all the benefits of the virtualised cloud infrastructure. It is now time to bring most of your applications up to the cloud; time to consider what to do with some of your workhorse applications. Take advantage of our expertise in architecting and building modern Java EE systems as well as our expertise with the cutting-edge technologies; together, we will find the best way to allow you to move your applications into the cloud. | 30 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoCake Collaboration Services (CCS) Overview | In today’s changing software development world you may find yourself needing to call upon expertise from an ever increasing pool of consultants who only specialise on one particular area of your business. This all adds up and eats into your already tight budgets and even worse you become totally reliant upon third parties. This is a dangerous and demoralising position for your own in-house teams to be in. Our approach is different – Cake Collaboration Services® (CCS) – collaboration means people working together, finding shared solutions to help each other resolve challenges, learn and improve. It’s the open source philosophy. CCS saves software development teams time and money by providing immediate expert support helping your teams to solve a multitude of day-to-day development issues. Its a totally flexible solution - we tailor it to fit your business and technical needs. We listen and take the time to talk to your entire team to ensure we are supporting you exactly where you need it. | 30 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoOne Team Project Delivery By Cake Solutions | Software development projects have to be delivered by people working in stable teams. For any organisation considering delivering a business critical project, the key issues are where to get the right team members, how the team will be balanced in terms of skills, and then how the team will work with the management to successfully execute the plan. This is what we do for a living. Cake has used our decade+ of experience delivering innovative software projects to develop a unique approach to this difficult and complex area. Traditionally, the options for resourcing software development projects have fallen into three categories: In-sourcing: the use of your own full time workforce to deliver the project Mid-sourcing: the use of temporary labour working under your own management Out-sourcing: the use of a third-party organisation to deliver a project, usually with no level of shared risk One-Team® builds on the keys strengths of all three approaches and together with Cake’s agile methodology and experienced management team delivers an innovative high quality solution to the challenge of development projects. | 25 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoAgile Financial Times | Presented by Ian Brookes Agile Financial Times presenting the financial benefits from an agile approach to software development. The talk explores strategic and practical financial implications, management and control of agile projects. We include a brief introduction to the core principles of agile (the continuous refinement, product backlog, release plan) and the execution (the sprint planning and review). Once that’s out of the way, we explore the financial perspectives, both internal and external, from how to manage suppliers and implement agile based contracts, to setting project budgets and estimating ‘cost to completion’. In these times of austerity, we also show how agile can secure a ‘more for less’ return on proposed expenditure. This talk is aimed at board level decision makers, providing them with an overview of the agile approach from a business perspective and its financial implications, whilst also suited to business analysts, team leaders and project managers in highlighting initial and ongoing financial aspects of development projects that are crucial to executing a ‘successful’ result for the business. They will learn why traditional approaches to projects are haunted by the reality of weak underpinning economic frameworks and poor financial thinking, leading to inappropriate and ultimately over spent budgets, how to manage agile projects with financial dexterity providing transparency and visibility of spend versus value, and ultimately why the underpinning philosophies, culture and structure of the agile approach significantly reduces financial and technical risk. The talk combines research, practical experience and Cake’s own insights of ‘pay as you go’ into an agile financial model providing a rigorous and new perspective of why agile is the way forward. | 18 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoIntroducing Cake Solutions | Watch a brief introduction about Cake, learn about our services and hear why we are genuine experts in enterprise application development | 17 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 14 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Convince your business that agile is the way forward!
This provides a really good angle to agile project management from both a developers point of view and also that of the business. What a early ROI means in terms of cash flow and overall project success is a really useful tool when explaining the agile concept the business.
- Free
- Category: Training
- Language: English
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