Peter Bell
Great Lakes Software Symposium
Chicago · November 12 - 14, 2010
Evangelist/hacker for hackNY
Peter is an evangelist and hacker for hackNY - a not-for-profit that aims to federate the next generation of hackers for the New York innovation community.
Peter is a regular presenter at national and international conferences on ruby, nodejs, NoSQL (especially MongoDB and neo4j), cloud computing, software craftsmanship, java, groovy, javascript, and requirements and estimating. He is on the program committee for Code Generation in Cambridge, England and the Domain Specific Modeling workshop at SPLASH (was ooPSLA) and reviews and shepherds proposals for the BCS SPA conference.
He has presented at a range of conferences including DLD conference, ooPSLA, RubyNation, SpringOne2GX, Code Generation, Practical Product Lines, the British Computer Society Software Practices Advancement conference, DevNexus, cf.Objective(), CF United, Scotch on the Rocks, WebDU, WebManiacs, UberConf, the Rich Web Experience and the No Fluff Just Stuff Enterprise Java tour.
He has been published in IEEE Software, Dr. Dobbs, IBM developerWorks, Information Week, Methods & Tools, Mashed Code, NFJS the Magazine and GroovyMag. He's currently writing a book on managing software development for Pearson.
He is an organizer of the CTO School http://www.ctoschool.org - an organization in NYC devoted to creating the next generation of technical leaders. He also organizes the node.js meetup in New York and co-organizes the Domain Driven Design and Grails meetups.
He is a regular instructor at General Assembly in New York. His presentations cover managing software development, NoSQL, mobile development, Javascript development, Twitter Bootstrap and Javascript frameworks.
He tweets regularly as @peterbell.
Presentations
Domain Driven Design: Building Complex Software
DDD is a proven approach for modeling and building sophisticated software that deals with complex domains. Learn what it does, what kinds of projects it is best for, and how to start to implement DDD in your organization.
Requirements and Estimating
“What will it cost?” “When will it be done?“. Unfortunately, almost a decade after the agile manifesto was written, these are still questions we have to answer on a regular basis.
In this session we'll cover a range of practical techniques for improving your requirements gathering and increasing the accuracy of your project estimates while also setting realistic expectations for your project stakeholders based on practical experience in specifying, quoting and delivering over four hundred applications over the last ten years.
How to Select a Technology
We're covering lots of cool new technologies, but which ones should you adopt? In this presentation we'll look at the technology adoption lifecycle, core vs incidental technologies, the importance of community, the benefits and costs of “cool”, how “real options” can manage your risks and a range of other tools and techniques for successfully selecting and adopting new technologies for your enterprise projects.
NoSQL? No Problems
There are a wide range of NoSQL options, most of which solve very different problems. In the first part of this session we'll look beyond the hype to understand some real world use cases where NoSQL options can either replace or enhance a relational solution. You might be surprised at some of the reasons companies have chosen to successfully develop NoSQL based solutions.
In the second part of the session we'll look through a range of the common NoSQL offerings like CouchDB, MongoDB, Redis, Neo, Cassandra, Riak and hosted solutions like Googles BigTable and Amazons SimpleDB.