Brian Sam-Bodden
Java author, Ruby geek and Open Source Advocate
Brian Sam-Bodden is an author, instructor, speaker and hacker that has spent over fifteen years crafting software systems. He holds dual bachelor degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University in computer science and physics and heads Integrallis http://www.integrallis.com. He is a frequent speaker at user groups and conferences nationally and abroad. Brian is the author of "Beginning POJOs: Spring, Hibernate, JBoss and Tapestry", co-author of the "Enterprise Java Development on a Budget: Leveraging Java Open Source Technologies" and a contributor to O'reilly's "97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know".
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MVC meet JavaScript, JavaScript meet MVC
Posted Tuesday, December 27, 2011
For years the software community has been pushing the MVC architectural pattern to organize and separate the concerns of our applications. So far we seem to have done a decent job of accomplishing that based on the enforcement of the pattern in the mostmore »On Mini-languages and Clojure
Posted Saturday, December 18, 2010
Clojure is a relatively new, dynamic Lisp that runs on the JVM. Clojure, being a Lisp, is extremely malleable and extensible, allowing Clojure the language and the programmer the ability to create powerful yet consistent abstractions. Clojure out-of-themore »On Becoming a Certified Gemologist
Posted Thursday, November 18, 2010
So you are a Ruby developer who has been working with Ruby for a while with multiple projects using different flavors of Ruby and a whole plethora of gem dependencies. You even have multiple Rails projects using different versions of Rails that you needmore »On Writing a Groovy DSL
Posted Friday, July 9, 2010
Today, Groovy is a mature language on the JVM that gives Java developers a dynamic, flexible and highly productive and expressive medium while allowing seamless integration with existing Java applications and libraries. One facility that Groovy lends itmore »Making the Complex Usable with JRuby
Posted Friday, April 30, 2010
One of the factors that made Java hugely successful is the myriad of open source libraries and frameworks. The successful ones have had now a decade or more to mature and grow. A side effect of being successful is both intended and unintended complexitmore »Presentations
Refactoring with JRuby
Learn how JRuby can bring simplicity to the complex and rich APIs available in the Java platform. In this session you'll learn how to use JRuby to tackle some common tasks in Java SE and Java EE as well as how to abstract and simplify complex APIs. more »Meta-programming in Groovy
This session explores some of the programming techniques that a powerful dynamic language enables, in particular meta-programming or the art of writing code that writes code. Meta-programming techniques are being used extensively in many successful framewmore »Tools and Techniques to build Smart Java Applications
In this session we will explore the Java tools, techniques and algorithms that enable us to filter, classify, relate and discover patterns in our data that might not immediately obvious. With the emergence of social networking applications a great deal ofmore »Relational Database Alternatives
In our industry the database is king and we we say database, more often than not we mean "relational database". This talk is a survey of the many alternatives to a relational database and the situations in which they can (and sometimes must) be used. In more »Groovy on the Cloud
In this session we'll talk about how the combination of cloud computing a flexible, lightweight dynamic language like Groovy and a few architectural and design principles can be used to create highly scalable and maintainable web applications. In this semore »Books
97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts
by Barbee Davis
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If the projects you manage don't go as smoothly as you'd like, 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know offers knowledge that's priceless, gained through years of trial and error. This illuminating book contains 97 short and extremely practical tips -- whether you're dealing with software or non-IT projects -- from some of the world's most experienced project managers and software developers. You'll learn how these professionals have dealt with everything from managing teams to handling project stakeholders to runaway meetings and more.
While this book highlights software projects, its wise axioms contain project management principles applicable to projects of all types in any industry. You can read the book end to end or browse to find topics that are of particular relevance to you. 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know is both a useful reference and a source of inspiration.
Among the 97 practical tips:- "Clever Code Is Hard to Maintain...and Maintenance Is Everything" -- David Wood, Partner, Zepheira
- "Every Project Manager Is a Contract Administrator" -- Fabio Teixeira de Melo, Planning Manager, Construtora Norberto Odebrecht
- "Can Earned Value and Velocity Coexist on Reports?" -- Barbee Davis, President, Davis Consulting
- "How Do You Define 'Finished'"? -- Brian Sam-Bodden, author, software architect
- "The Best People to Create the Estimates Are the Ones Who Do the Work" -- Joe Zenevitch, Senior Project Manager, ThoughtWorks
- "How to Spot a Good IT Developer" -- James Graham, independent management consultant
- "One Deliverable, One Person" -- Alan Greenblatt, CEO, Sciova
Beginning POJOs: Lightweight Java Web Development Using Plain Old Java Objects in Spring, Hibernate, and Tapestry
by Brian Sam-Bodden
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Beginning POJOs introduces you to open source lightweight web development using Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs) and the tools and frameworks that enable this. Tier by tier, this book guides you through the construction of complex but lightweight enterprise Java-based web applications. Such applications are centered around several major open source lightweight frameworks, including Spring, Hibernate, Tapestry, and JBoss (including the new lightweight JBoss Seam).
Additional support comes from the most successful and prevalent open-source tools: Eclipse and Ant, and the increasingly popular TestNG. This book is ideal if you’re new to open source and lightweight Java. You’ll learn how to build a complete enterprise Java-based web application from scratch, and how to integrate the different open source frameworks to achieve this goal. You’ll also learn techniques for rapidly developing such applications.
NOTE: The source code files to accompany this book are now hosted at https://github.com/bsbodden/techconf.
Enterprise Java Development on a Budget: Leveraging Java Open Source Technologies
by Brian Sam-Bodden and Christopher M. Judd
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- Enterprise Java Development on a Budget is an annotated roadmap covering every major aspect of Open Source enterprise Java development "on a budget". This book allows a programmer or programming team to develop complex applications for enterprises using as little money as possible. Open Source has had a profound effect on the Java Community. Many Java Open Source projects have even become de-facto standards. The principal purpose of this book is to guide the reader through the development of a real enterprise Java application(s) using nothing but Open Source Java Tools, Projects and Frameworks. Each chapter will deal with an aspect of the design and development of the application as they relate to a specific tool or framework being used. In areas of the application where there may be implementation choices in terms of which Open Source project to use, we will show one more possible paths and explain why, in the context of the application we chose one project/tool versus competing/similar ones. This book is intended to define the role of Open Source on the Java Community. It will provide information on how, when and why to use Open Source. It will also contain as a useful appendix a catalog of Open Source Projects/Products making an impact. The catalog provides information and examples necessary for managers, developers and architects to make decisions on whether to use or evaluate specific projects.
