Northern Virginia 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	Java Persistence: Approaching the Silver Bullet Mark Richards	REST : Information-Dri ven Architectures for the 21st Century Brian Sletten	Groovy, the Blue Pill: Writing Next Generation Java Code in Groovy Scott Davis	Choosing the right RIA platform for your project Richard Monson-Haefel	Java 7 Preview Alex Miller	10 Tips for Getting Your Project Back on Track Jared Richardson
2:45 - 3:15 PM	BREAK
3:15 - 4:45 PM	Enterprise Messaging Using JMS (Part 1) Mark Richards	RESTlet for the Weary Brian Sletten	Groovy, The Red Pill: Metaprogramming , the Groovy Way to Blow a Buttoned-Down Java Developer's Mind Scott Davis	10 Things Every Software Architect Should Know Richard Monson-Haefel	Design Patterns Reconsidered Alex Miller	Techniques 2009 Jared Richardson
4:45 - 5:00 PM	BREAK
5:00 - 6:30 PM	Enterprise Messaging With JMS (Part 2) Mark Richards	What's Going On? : Complex Event Processing w/ Esper Brian Sletten	Rapid Web Development with Grails and Ajax Scott Davis	Rise of the Fit Client Richard Monson-Haefel	Exploring Terracotta Alex Miller	Credit Card Software Development: Recognizing and Repaying Technical Debt Jared Richardson
6:30 - 7:15 PM	DINNER
7:15 - 8:00 PM	Keynote: Career 2.0: Take Control of Your Life by Jared Richardson

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8:00 - 9:00 AM	BREAKFAST
9:00 - 10:30 AM	EJB3 Core Specification (JSR-220) Mark Richards	Enterprise Integration with Spring, Part 1 Mark Fisher	YSlow: Building Your Website for Speed Scott Davis	JavaServer Faces: A Whirlwind Tour David Geary	Structuring concurrent applications in JDK 5.0 Brian Goetz	Restoring Agility: Getting Your Team Back on Track Jared Richardson
10:30 - 11:00 AM	BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 PM	Transaction Design Patterns Mark Richards	Enterprise Integration with Spring, Part 2 Mark Fisher	GIS for Web Developers: Adding Where to Your Application Scott Davis	Facelets David Geary	Effective Concurrent Java Brian Goetz	Be Heard: Public Speaking for Techies Jared Richardson
12:30 - 1:30 PM	LUNCH
1:30 - 3:00 PM	Architecture and Scaling Ken Sipe	Configuring Spring with Annotations Mark Fisher	Java.next: Clojure, Groovy, JRuby, and Scala Stuart Halloway	Using Ajax4jsf David Geary	Garbage-collect or-friendly programming Brian Goetz	Agile, Smagile: What's Working? - What's Not? David Hussman
3:00 - 3:15 PM	BREAK
3:15 - 4:45 PM	7 Habits of Highly Effective Developers Ken Sipe	High Performance Projects Srivaths Sankaran	Java.next #3: Dispatch Stuart Halloway	Intro to Seam David Geary	Squashing bugs with FindBugs Brian Goetz	Architecture and Agility Are Not Enemies David Hussman
4:45 - 5:30 PM	BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSION

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8:00 - 9:00 AM	BREAKFAST
9:00 - 10:30 AM	BDD made easy Andrew Glover	Enterprise JPA 2.0 & Spring 3.0 - Tips and Tricks for JEE5 Persistence Pratik Patel	How to Fail with 100% Code Coverage Stuart Halloway	Filthy Rich Clients with the Google Web Toolkit, Part I David Geary	A Thorough Introduction To Groovy Jeff Brown	Agile Management & Managing Agility David Hussman
10:30 - 11:00 AM	MORNING BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 PM	Java Memory, Performance and the Garbage Collector Ken Sipe	Viva La Javolution! Brian Sletten	Maintaining Project Integrity with JDepend, Macker, PMD, Maven, and other open source tools David Bock	Filthy Rich Clients with the Google Web Toolkit, Part II David Geary	Agile Test Driven Development With Groovy Jeff Brown	Agile Product Planning: Building Strong Backlogs David Hussman
12:30 - 1:15 PM	LUNCH
1:15 - 2:15 PM	EXPERT PANEL DISCUSSION
2:15 - 3:45 PM	Real-world JEE performance tuning: Tips n' Tricks Pratik Patel	Introduction to Hibernate Scott Leberknight	Tactical Continuous Integration with Hudson Andrew Glover	Your app is done - now what? David Bock	Powerful Metaprogramming Techniques With Groovy Jeff Brown	Iteration 0 Ken Sipe
3:45 - 4:00 PM	BREAK
4:00 - 5:30 PM	Hacking - The Dark Arts Ken Sipe	Real World Hibernate Tips Scott Leberknight	Shining a Light on Galileo Srivaths Sankaran	Surviving Middle Management David Bock	Grails - Agile Web 2.0 The Easy Way Jeff Brown	Less is Always More Andrew Glover