Northern Virginia Software Symposium - Schedule

Friday - November 7

	Meeting Room 5	Meeting Room 6	Meeting Room 7	Meeting Room 8	Meeting Room 9	Meeting Room 10
12:00 - 1:00 PM	REGISTRATION
1:00 - 1:15 PM	WELCOME
1:15 - 2:45 PM	Groovy, the Blue Pill: Writing Next Generation Java Code in Groovy Scott Davis	Java Persistence: Approaching the Silver Bullet Mark Richards	10 Tips for Getting Your Project Back on Track Jared Richardson	Java 7 Preview Alex Miller	REST : Information-Dri ven Architectures for the 21st Century Brian Sletten	Choosing the right RIA platform for your project Richard Monson-Haefel
2:45 - 3:15 PM	BREAK
3:15 - 4:45 PM	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	Techniques 2009 Jared Richardson	Design Patterns Reconsidered Alex Miller	RESTlet for the Weary Brian Sletten	Enterprise Messaging Using JMS (Part 1) Mark Richards
4:45 - 5:00 PM	BREAK
5:00 - 6:30 PM	Rapid Web Development with Grails and Ajax Scott Davis	Rise of the Fit Client Richard Monson-Haefel	Credit Card Software Development: Recognizing and Repaying Technical Debt Jared Richardson	Exploring Terracotta Alex Miller	What's Going On? : Complex Event Processing w/ Esper Brian Sletten	Enterprise Messaging With JMS (Part 2) Mark Richards
6:30 - 7:15 PM	DINNER
7:15 - 8:00 PM	Keynote: Career 2.0: Take Control of Your Life by Jared Richardson

Saturday - November 8

	Meeting Room 5	Meeting Room 6	Meeting Room 7	Meeting Room 8	Meeting Room 9	Meeting Room 10
8:00 - 9:00 AM	BREAKFAST
9:00 - 10:30 AM	Structuring concurrent applications in JDK 5.0 Brian Goetz	Enterprise Integration with Spring, Part 1 Mark Fisher	Restoring Agility: Getting Your Team Back on Track Jared Richardson	YSlow: Building Your Website for Speed Scott Davis	JavaServer Faces: A Whirlwind Tour David Geary	EJB3 Core Specification (JSR-220) Mark Richards
10:30 - 11:00 AM	BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 PM	Effective Concurrent Java Brian Goetz	Enterprise Integration with Spring, Part 2 Mark Fisher	Be Heard: Public Speaking for Techies Jared Richardson	GIS for Web Developers: Adding Where to Your Application Scott Davis	Facelets David Geary	Transaction Design Patterns Mark Richards
12:30 - 1:30 PM	LUNCH
1:30 - 3:00 PM	Java.next: Clojure, Groovy, JRuby, and Scala Stuart Halloway	Architecture and Scaling Ken Sipe	Agile, Smagile: What's Working? - What's Not? David Hussman	Configuring Spring with Annotations Mark Fisher	Using Ajax4jsf David Geary	Garbage-collect or-friendly programming Brian Goetz
3:00 - 3:15 PM	BREAK
3:15 - 4:45 PM	Java.next #3: Dispatch Stuart Halloway	7 Habits of Highly Effective Developers Ken Sipe	Architecture and Agility Are Not Enemies David Hussman	High Performance Projects Srivaths Sankaran	Intro to Seam David Geary	Squashing bugs with FindBugs Brian Goetz
4:45 - 5:30 PM	BIRDS OF A FEATHER SESSION

Sunday - November 9

	Meeting Room 5	Meeting Room 6	Meeting Room 7	Meeting Room 8	Meeting Room 9	Meeting Room 10
8:00 - 9:00 AM	BREAKFAST
9:00 - 10:30 AM	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	Enterprise JPA 2.0 & Spring 3.0 - Tips and Tricks for JEE5 Persistence Pratik Patel	BDD made easy Andrew Glover
10:30 - 11:00 AM	MORNING BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 PM	Java Memory, Performance and the Garbage Collector Ken Sipe	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	Viva La Javolution! Brian Sletten	Maintaining Project Integrity with JDepend, Macker, PMD, Maven, and other open source tools David Bock
12:30 - 1:15 PM	LUNCH
1:15 - 2:15 PM	EXPERT PANEL DISCUSSION
2:15 - 3:45 PM	Your app is done - now what? David Bock	Real-world JEE performance troubleshooting & tuning: Tips n' Tricks Pratik Patel	Powerful Metaprogramming Techniques With Groovy Jeff Brown	Iteration 0 Ken Sipe	Introduction to Hibernate Scott Leberknight	Tactical Continuous Integration with Hudson Andrew Glover
3:45 - 4:00 PM	BREAK
4:00 - 5:30 PM	Surviving Middle Management David Bock	Hacking - The Dark Arts Ken Sipe	Grails - Agile Web 2.0 The Easy Way Jeff Brown	Shining a Light on Galileo Srivaths Sankaran	Real World Hibernate Tips Scott Leberknight	Less is Always More Andrew Glover