TITLE: Continuous Integration 

SPEAKER: Olivier (Oli) Dagenais, Formark 

DATE: 30th of March 2006 

ABSTRACT: 

Oli will give an introduction to what is commonly known as "Continuous Integration", 
the borrowed-from-XP discipline and technology that could save your projects time 
and increase their quality. Advantages, disadvantages and a recipe to implement 
it for your projects will be presented, as well as a timeline about its implementation 
at Formark and possible future directions. 

BIO: 

Originally interested in computers for their graphics and the demo scene, Oli somehow 
ended up at Formark writing case management and business solutions for big 
businesses and government organizations. He went on to design and develop 
tools to automate himself out of that job and has been busy improving processes 
and tools at Formark ever since, while somehow finding time to do "real work", 
contributing to a few open-source projects and still having time left to spend 
with his wife. Oli also had a few short stints with Microsoft, Macadamian and as 
a contractor, is especially passionate and enthusiastic about writing quality 
software and claims to "eat software engineering for breakfast". Oh, he also 
has a B.C.S. from Carleton University.