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Peter Bell
Senior VP Engineering, General Assembly
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
Intro to the next generation of Javascript Frameworks
As our web applications become more interactive, frameworks like jQuery or dojo are "necessary but not sufficient".
In this session we'll do a whirlwind tour of the next generation of javascript frameworks - from backbone, sammy, and batman to Sencha touch and SproutCore. We'll look at the strengths and weaknesses of each and how you would choose between them for various desktop and mobile web applications.
node.js - why you should *really* care
Javascript on the server. OK, cool. So what? Node.js isn't about javascript any more than the web is about http headers. With node.js you can create asynchronous, non-blocking web servers than can easily handle thousands or even tens of thousands of connections - with a single thread.
If you're creating the next generation of interactive web and mobile applications which need to connect back to your server on a regular basis, node.js is a technology you can't afford to ignore.
Awesome Acceptance Testing with Cucumber
Awesome acceptance testing with Cucumber can make your projects run more smoothly, your website have less bugs and your development process run more efficiently.
What we will cover is how to use Cucumber to get a clear executable definition of done for each of your stories to ensure that done is really done. We'll look at how to write cucumber tests that are meaningful and not brittle and how to get "just enough" coverage at the acceptance test level by creating a "testing pyramid". Whether you've heard about cucumber but don't know how or why you'd add it to your projects or you've had problems using cucumber in the past, we'll look how highly functioning project teams are using Cucumber to deliver software more quickly, effectively and enjoyably.
How to Build a Mobile App
Native? Titanium? PhoneGap? How should you build a mobile app? What are the trade offs and the issues you run into? Does write one run anywhere really work, and when it doesn't, what do you have to do next?
In this session we'll look through the various alternatives for building mobile apps, providing a high level overview so you can then pick the sessions using technologies that will be most applicable to your use cases.
NoSQL: Getting Started with Neo4j
What is a graph database, why would you use it, and how do you get started? In this session we'll look at the kinds of problems that graph databases can solve and will run through the process of getting started with neo4j
By the end of this session you'll have all of the information required to get started with neo4j on your projects.
