Greater Wisconsin Software Symposium - Schedule

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12:00 - 1:00 PM	REGISTRATION
1:00 - 1:15 PM	WELCOME
1:15 - 2:45 PM	10 Tips for Getting Your Project Back on Track Jared Richardson	The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Debugging Ted Neward	JavaServer Faces: A Whirlwind Tour David Geary	Evolutionary SOA Neal Ford	Groovy, the Blue Pill: Writing Next Generation Java Code in Groovy Scott Davis
2:45 - 3:15 PM	BREAK
3:15 - 4:45 PM	Gradual Agile: The Secret to Introducing Agile Practices Jared Richardson	The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Monitoring Ted Neward	Facelets David Geary	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
4:45 - 5:00 PM	BREAK
5:00 - 6:30 PM	Credit Card Software Development: Recognizing and Repaying Technical Debt Jared Richardson	The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Performance and Scalability Ted Neward	Seam David Geary	Test Driven Design Neal Ford	Grails for (Recovering) Struts Developers: A Groovy Alternative Scott Davis
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	Agile Software Testing Strategies Jared Richardson	The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Concurrency (Part 1: Threads) Ted Neward	Real World JSON Scott Davis	Know your Java? Venkat Subramaniam
10:30 - 11:00 AM	BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 PM	BDD in Java and Groovy Venkat Subramaniam	Techniques 2009 Jared Richardson	The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Concurrency (Part 2: Concurrency) Ted Neward	YSlow: Building Your Website for Speed Scott Davis	Rich Faces David Geary
12:30 - 1:30 PM	LUNCH
1:30 - 3:00 PM	The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Hacking with the JDK Ted Neward	Introduction to JRuby Neal Ford	Spring 2.5 - Spring without XML Ken Sipe	Design Patterns in Java and Groovy Venkat Subramaniam	Filthy Rich Clients with the Google Web Toolkit, Part I David Geary
3:00 - 3:15 PM	BREAK
3:15 - 4:45 PM	DSL in Groovy Venkat Subramaniam	Rails for JRuby Neal Ford	Spring+JPA+Hibe rnate: Standards Meeting Productivity for Java Persistence Ken Sipe	10 Things Every Software Architect Should Know Richard Monson-Haefel	Filthy Rich Clients with the Google Web Toolkit, Part II David Geary
4:45 - 5:30 PM	BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSIONS

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