Western Canada Java Software Symposium

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• Andrew Glover

  Co-author of "Continuous Integration"

  Every once in a while the topic of code coverage surfaces, which more»

• Stuart Halloway

  CEO of Relevance

  Programmers coming to functional languages for the first time cannot imagine life without variables. I address this head-on in the more»

• Richard Monson-Haefel

  VP of Developer Relations, Curl Inc.

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• Neal Ford

  Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, Inc.

  The lowly whiteboard is one of my favorite tools for design work on projects: you can stand in front of it as a group, you can easily play... more»

• Michael Nygard

  Agile technology leader and dynamicist

  Sizing, Danish Style Folks in telecommunications and operations research have used Erl more»

• Matt Raible

  Creator of AppFuse and author of Spring Live

  It's been three weeks since I joined the realm of the unemployed. Fortunately, I more»

• Alex Miller

  Sr. Engineer with Terracotta Inc.

  Or maybe that should be “a bit of final advice”. :) There was a more»

• Vladimir Vivien

  Software Engineer / Consultant

  I finally downloaded the latest JDK 6 u 10 (download) recently. This is a significant re more»

• Scott Leberknight

  Chief Architect at Near Infinity

  Re nae Bair's post on The Ranting Rubyis more»

• Graeme Rocher

  Project Lead of the Grails Project & CTO of G2One

  Those crazy guys over at the Grails podcast interviewed me about various things ranging from being part of more»

• Ted Neward

  Enterprise, Virtual Machine and Language Wonk

  Dustin Campbell, a self-professed "IDE guy", is speaking at the .NET Developer's Association of Redmond this evening, on the future of... more»

• Pratik Patel

  Enterprise Architect

  There's been a 'backlash' of sorts brewing in the Java developer community over the past 2 years. From talking to my developer buddies around... more»

• Howard Lewis Ship

  Creator of Tapestry and HiveMind

  Seems like the Mac has a huge number of RSS readers. For a while I was using Vienna, but it stopped working after a recent update (no blogs... more»

• Mike Levin

  Software Developer specializing in Web2.0 websites

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• Brian Pontarelli

  Founder of Inversoft

  Just figured out how to get git tab completion working in zsh on a Mac. Turns out that the completion scripts use a bunch of extra git... more»

• Erik Doernenburg

  Principal Consultant @ Thoughtworks

  If you are somebody who writes code you probably know that moment when you look at some code you didn’t write, or some code you wrote a... more»

• Kirk Knoernschild

  Software Developer & Mentor

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• Brian Goetz

  Author of Java Concurrency in Practice

  I live in an AT&T-free state, so I have not had access to the cult that is iPhone. But recently, in preparation for AT&T moving... more»

• Matthew Bass

  Software Developer & Entrepreneur

  Can Sphinx and foxy fixtures place nicely together? Due to the way Sphinx indexing works, foxy fixtures will often slow down the indexing... more»

• Jason Rudolph

  Author of Getting Started with Grails

  I had the more»

• Ryan Shriver

  Business and Technology Consulting

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• Nathaniel Schutta

  Author, speaker, software engineer focused on user interface design.

  Today we learned something important, the NTSB announced the more»

• Jeff Brown

  SpringSource Engineering And Professional Services - Groovy and Grails Developer

  Strange enough title.Let's start with a hypothetical conversation between a geeky developer and his much less geeky wife: more»

• Jared Richardson

  Agile coach and co-author of Ship It

  Jurgen Appelo has an ongoing interview series on his blog. He's published a lot of very smart people and I'm honored to squeak in too! ;) more»

• David Bock

  Principal Consultant, CodeSherpas Inc.

  I have been setting up a rock-solid server cluster for a client and ran into an interesting issue trying to install Phusion Passenger onto... more»

• Pramod Sadalage

  Co-author of "Refactoring Databases:Evolutionary Database Development"

  Consider this Hibernate mapping @Column(name = "qReferenceId") public Long getQReferenceId() { return qReferenceId; more»

• Craig Walls

  Author of Spring in Action

  At one time not too long ago, I wasn't a big fan of annotations. But then I let my guard down and even started liking them. But now I'm... more»

• Kenneth Kousen

  President of Kousen IT, Inc.

  In this entry in my “Making Swing Groovy” series, I want to talk about threading issues. Specifically, more»

• Venkat Subramaniam

  Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

  I wrote a four part article for Java World on creating DSLs in Java and Groovy. For your convenience, I decided to list the links to those... more»

• Jason Harwig

  Senior Software Engineer at Near Infinity

  The most popular entry I've written at Near Infinity has been the more»

• John Heintz

  Principal Consultant with New Aspects of Software

  In a recent discussion interview questions came up, here's my favorite one.To set some context this question is designed to gauge the abst more»

• Mark Johnson

  Director of Consulting at CGI

  At the Columbus NFJS show held on July 25-27th during one of the BOF sessions Dave Bock, Scott Davis and I discussed unit tests vs functional... more»

• Joseph Nusairat

  Author of Beginning JBoss Seam & Co-Author of Beginning Groovy & Grails

  Well i am assuming Apress has the most random site in the world at times.But today only they have our recent book, Beginning Groovy & Grai more»

• Keith Donald

  Lead of Spring Web and Creator of Spring Web Flow

  I am pleased to announce that Developing Rich Web Applications with Spring, a three-day bootcamp lead by SpringSource engineers on web... more»

• Pete Behrens

  Organizational Agility Coach

  Marti nig & Associates Methods & Tools group recentl more»

• Brian Sam-Bodden

  Java author, Ruby geek and Open Source Advocate

  In this installment we are going to build the Dashboard page of the Tempo application. T more»

• Mark Fisher

  Spring Integration Lead

  In my recent post, I had mentio more»

• Ron Bodkin

  Chief Software Architect, Quantcast

  I'm looking forward to speaking at The Rich Web Experience conference in San Jose next month. The event runs from September 7th through 9th.... more»

• Mark Goodwin

  Web Application Security Specialist

  We've already looked at one of the two big problems posed by anti DNS pinning on Java applets; because there's rebinding on the applet and... more»

• Scott Davis

  Author of "Groovy Recipes" & TDD Expert

  Every time I see a live show at the Denver Botanic more»

• Romain Guy

  Java User Interface expert.

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• Ramnivas Laddad

  Author of AspectJ in Action, Principal at SpringSource

  InfoQ.com has published my AOP myths and realities talk recorded at a No Fluff Just Stuff conference. InfoQ.com founded by Floyd Marine more»

• David Geary

  Author of Graphic Java and co-author of Core JSF

  The 2006 NFJS tour kicked off t more»

• Kito Mann

  Editor-in-chief of JSF Central and the author of JSF in Action

  I miss the latest.integration keyword from ivy.... more»

• Jason Hunter

  Author of Java Servlet Programming

  I just posted the JDOM 1.1 release for download. This release includes about 20 improvements and bug fixes. more»

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