Greater Wisconsin Software Symposium - Session Agenda

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12:00 - 1:00 PM	REGISTRATION
1:00 - 1:15 PM	WELCOME
1:15 - 2:45 PM	Evolutionary SOA Neal Ford	Groovy, the Blue Pill: Writing Next Generation Java Code in Groovy Scott Davis	The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Debugging Ted Neward	JavaServer Faces: A Whirlwind Tour David Geary	10 Tips for Getting Your Project Back on Track Jared Richardson
2:45 - 3:15 PM	BREAK
3:15 - 4:45 PM	The Productive Programmer: Practice (10 Ways to Improve Your Code) Neal Ford	Groovy, The Red Pill: Metaprogramming , the Groovy Way to Blow a Buttoned-Down Java Developer's Mind Scott Davis	The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Monitoring Ted Neward	Facelets David Geary	Gradual Agile: The Secret to Introducing Agile Practices Jared Richardson
4:45 - 5:00 PM	BREAK
5:00 - 6:30 PM	Test Driven Design Neal Ford	Grails for (Recovering) Struts Developers: A Groovy Alternative Scott Davis	The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Performance and Scalability Ted Neward	Seam David Geary	Credit Card Software Development: Recognizing and Repaying Technical Debt Jared Richardson
6:30 - 7:15 PM	DINNER - BROOKFIELD 4 & 5
7:15 - 8:00 PM	Keynote: Ancient Philosophers & Blowhard Jamborees by Neal Ford

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8:00 - 9:00 AM	BREAKFAST
9:00 - 10:30 AM	"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages Neal Ford	Real World JSON Scott Davis	The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Concurrency (Part 1: Threads) Ted Neward	Know your Java? Venkat Subramaniam	Agile Software Testing Strategies Jared Richardson
10:30 - 11:00 AM	BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 PM	Rich Faces David Geary	YSlow: Building Your Website for Speed Scott Davis	The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Concurrency (Part 2: Concurrency) Ted Neward	BDD in Java and Groovy Venkat Subramaniam	Techniques 2009 Jared Richardson
12:30 - 1:30 PM	LUNCH
1:30 - 3:00 PM	Filthy Rich Clients with the Google Web Toolkit, Part I David Geary	Design Patterns in Java and Groovy Venkat Subramaniam	The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Hacking with the JDK Ted Neward	Spring 2.5 - Spring without XML Ken Sipe	Introduction to JRuby Neal Ford
3:00 - 3:15 PM	BREAK
3:15 - 4:45 PM	Filthy Rich Clients with the Google Web Toolkit, Part II David Geary	10 Things Every Software Architect Should Know Richard Monson-Haefel	DSL in Groovy Venkat Subramaniam	Spring+JPA+Hibe rnate: Standards Meeting Productivity for Java Persistence Ken Sipe	Rails for JRuby Neal Ford
4:45 - 5:30 PM	BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSIONS

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8:00 - 9:00 AM	BREAKFAST
9:00 - 10:30 AM	REST - Live! Brian Sletten	Java Memory, Performance and the Garbage Collector Ken Sipe	A Thorough Introduction To Groovy Jeff Brown	Acceptance Testing Application Behavior Venkat Subramaniam	Code Metrics & Analysis for Agile Projects Neal Ford
10:30 - 11:00 AM	BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 PM	RESTlet for the Weary Brian Sletten	Regular Expressions in Java Neal Ford	Agile Test Driven Development With Groovy Jeff Brown	JMX and Spring: Manageability for Spring-based Applications Ken Sipe	Caring about your Code Quality Venkat Subramaniam
12:30 - 1:15 PM	LUNCH
1:15 - 2:15 PM	EXPERT PANEL DISCUSSION
2:15 - 3:45 PM	Introduction to NetKernel : Software for the 21st Century Brian Sletten	Developing Rich Internet Applications Richard Monson-Haefel	Groovy And Your Build Jeff Brown	7 Habits of Highly Effective Developers Ken Sipe	Agile Project Management (With Just a Bit About Mingle) Neal Ford
3:45 - 4:00 PM	BREAK
4:00 - 5:30 PM	The Semantic Web : The Future, Now Brian Sletten	Understanding Open Source Licensing Richard Monson-Haefel	Grails - Agile Web 2.0 The Easy Way Jeff Brown	Hacking - The Dark Arts Ken Sipe	The Art of Producing Software: Applying Lean Concepts to Transform Your Software Development Organization John Carnell