John D. Mitchell, Krugle

Lost & Found: How Search-Driven Development Saves Developer Sanity Using Linux and Open-Source

John D. Mitchell Chief Architect, Krugle

Modern software development is beset with numerous challenges. As organizations grow, teams become more distributed, time to market pressure increases, requirements evolve more rapidly, and systems get exponentially more complicated, the sheer volue of data becomes overwhelming. High-quality information becomes harder to find at all and much harder to find quickly.

Developers are already adapting to this new reality by using search tools to instigate their activities. Searching for code examples, bug reports, requirement details, workarounds, new tools, progress indicators, cost estimates, people to help, and the like. Alas, traditional search technologies have helped a bit in isolation but have not integrated all of the disparate sources of technical information into a single, coherent way that blends the realities of proprietary development with all of the benefits of the open-source ecosystem.

This talk shows how tools and processes enabling search-driven development provides huge benefits in areas such as development speed, education, reuse, management, and risk reduction and how these tools and services were built with open-source software and deployed on Linux clusters.

Speaker: John Mitchell

John has developed systems ranging from aerospace and consumer electronics to medical informatics and e-commerce. He has written for a variety of publications including JavaWorld, Linux Journal, and Dr. Dobb's Journal. John brings extensive experience in technology transfer, open source, and development communities as both an independent consultant and CTO of such companies as the MageLang Institute and jGuru.com.

Slides

The slides from the presentation are available here:

• krugle_lost-and-found.pdf: Slides from Krugle talk