Daniel Hinojosa
Twin Cities Software Symposium
Minneapolis · October 23 - 24, 2015
Independent Consultant
Daniel is a programmer, consultant, instructor, speaker, and recent author. With over 20 years of experience, he does work for private, educational, and government institutions. He is also currently a speaker for No Fluff Just Stuff tour. Daniel loves JVM languages like Java, Groovy, and Scala; but also dabbles with non JVM languages like Haskell, Ruby, Python, LISP, C, C++. He is an avid Pomodoro Technique Practitioner and makes every attempt to learn a new programming language every year. For downtime, he enjoys reading, swimming, Legos, football, and barbecuing.
Presentations
The Walking TDD
Didn't you hear the news? TDD is dead. Yet many developers rely on it for quality code. Come join the zombie apocalypse and learn and understand TDD, what sets it apart from unit testing after the fact, what to do when you need to update code, effective mocking, automatically generating test data and lots of it, leaving code alone and respecting your work, and more
Scala for Java Developers (1/2) (Laptops Optional)
Scala for Java Developers is a full live code and fast paced presentation and workshop (laptops optional), and this is all about the Scala language.
Scala for Java Developers (2/2) (Laptops Optional)
Scala for Java Developers is a full live code and fast-paced presentation and workshop (laptops optional), and this is all about the Scala language. This is Part 2, continuing where we left off from Part 1.
Personal Agility with the Pomodoro Technique
Time is very precious and is often threatened by phone calls, emails, co-workers, bosses, and most of all, yourself. The Pomodoro Technique reigns in unfocused time and gives your work the urgency and the attention it needs, and it's done with a kitchen timer.