Research Triangle Software Symposium - Schedule

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12:00 - 1:00 PM	REGISTRATION
1:00 - 1:15 PM	WELCOME
1:15 - 2:45 PM	Spring Fundamentals Stuart Halloway	JavaScript Exposed: There's a Real Programming Language in There! (Part 1) Glenn Vanderburg	JavaServer Faces: A Whirlwind Tour David Geary	The State of AOP Ramnivas Laddad	Practices of an Agile Developer Venkat Subramaniam
2:45 - 3:15 PM	BREAK
3:15 - 4:45 PM	JavaScript Exposed: There's a Real Programming Language in There! (Part 2) Glenn Vanderburg	Enterprise AOP with AspectJ Ramnivas Laddad	Spring Dependency Injection Stuart Halloway	JSF: State of the Art David Geary	Refactoring your code - a key step in agility Venkat Subramaniam
4:45 - 5:00 PM	BREAK
5:00 - 6:30 PM	Testing Strategies for Web Applications Ramnivas Laddad	Java Performance Myths Glenn Vanderburg	Shale: Turbo-charge your JSF Apps David Geary	Ajax Architecture Stuart Halloway	Open Source Tools for Agile Development Venkat Subramaniam
6:30 - 7:15 PM	DINNER
7:15 - 8:00 PM	KEYNOTE by Dave Thomas entitled "Cargo Cults & Angry Monkeys"

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8:00 - 9:00 AM	BREAKFAST
9:00 - 10:30 AM	Performance Monitoring in J2EE Applications Ramnivas Laddad	Working with Rules Engines Venkat Subramaniam	Ruby for Java Programmers Dave Thomas	Introduction to Hibernate Justin Gehtland	Where Agile meets Argyle: New processes in established companies Bruce Tate
10:30 - 11:00 AM	BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 PM	Ruby on Rails Dave Thomas	Creating, Telling, and Tracking User Stories David Hussman	Killer Web UIs David Geary	Advanced Hibernate Justin Gehtland	What's New in Spring 2 Bruce Tate
12:30 - 1:15 PM	LUNCH
1:15 - 2:15 PM	BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSIONS
2:15 - 3:45 PM	Spring Security with ACEGI Justin Gehtland	Three Technologies to Watch Bruce Tate	Testing your Rails Application Dave Thomas	“Show Me the Numbers” - Agile Planning Tools and Techniques David Hussman	Ajaxian Faces David Geary
3:45 - 4:00 PM	BREAK
4:00 - 5:30 PM	Using Ajax with Ruby on Rails Dave Thomas	Spring AOP Justin Gehtland	Effective Teams Bruce Tate	Losing Battles and Winning Wars: Adopting Agile David Hussman	The Productive Programmer Neal Ford

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8:00 - 9:00 AM	BREAKFAST
9:00 - 10:30 AM	EJB3 Core Specification (JSR-220) Mark Richards	Holistic Testing Scott Davis	Introduction to NetKernel : Software for the 21st Century Brian Sletten	Ready, Set, Agile? David Hussman	The Busy Java Developer's Guide to JVM Scripting Ted Neward
10:30 - 11:00 AM	BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 PM	Introducing the Semantic Web Brian Sletten	Guerrilla Web Techniques Scott Davis	Effective Enterprise Java: State Management Ted Neward	Intro to Java Persistence API (JPA) Mark Richards	Refactoring Your Wetware Andy Hunt
12:30 - 1:15 PM	LUNCH
1:15 - 2:00 PM	EXPERT PANEL DISCUSSION
2:00 - 3:30 PM	Software Tools That Make Life Easier: Part One Jared Richardson	Pragmatic Learning Andy Hunt	Pragmatic XML Services Ted Neward	Real World Web Services Scott Davis	The Enterprise Service Bus: Do We Really Need It? Mark Richards
3:30 - 3:45 PM	BREAK
3:45 - 5:15 PM	Java5: The Language, The Libraries, The VM Ted Neward	Software Tools That Make Life Easier: Part Two Jared Richardson	Testing with Selenium Neal Ford	Scaling Agility Ryan Shriver	Java EE Command Pattern Architecture Mark Richards