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    Co-author of "Continuous Integration"

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  • Keith Donald

    Lead of Spring Web and Creator of Spring Web Flow

    I am pleased to announce that Developing Rich Web Applications with Spring, a three-day bootcamp lead by SpringSource engineers on web... more»

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    Software Developer specializing in Web2.0 websites

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  • Matt Raible

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    Enterprise, Virtual Machine and Language Wonk

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    VP of Developer Relations, Curl Inc.

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  • Nathaniel Schutta

    Author, speaker, software engineer focused on user interface design.

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  • Alex Miller

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    Groovy Spec Lead & Project Manager

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  • Pratik Patel

    Software Architect

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  • Venkat Subramaniam

    Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

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  • Erik Doernenburg

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    Brian Pontarelli - founder of Inversoft

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    Chief Architect at Near Infinity

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  • Kirk Knoernschild

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  • Craig Walls

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  • Pete Behrens

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  • Joseph Nusairat

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  • Ron Bodkin

    Chief Software Architect, Quantcast

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  • David Geary

    Author of Graphic Java and co-author of Core JSF

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  • Jason Hunter

    Author of Java Servlet Programming

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  • Kito Mann

    Editor-in-chief of JSF Central and the author of JSF in Action

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In the Spotlight - Bruce Tate

Author of 3 JavaOne best sellers

Bruce Tate is a father, kayaker, author and independent consultant in Austin, Tx. He worked for 13 years at IBM, in roles ranging from a database systems programmer to Java consultant. He left IBM to work for several startups in roles ranging from director to CTO. He now is building his own consulting practice, with emphasis on lightweight development in Java and Ruby, and persistence strategies. He is the author of nine books, including Rails Up and Running, From Java to Ruby, Beyond Java, the best selling Bitter series, the Jolt-winning Better, Faster, Lighter Java, and the Spring Developer's Notebook.






















Presentations by Bruce Tate

Java/Ruby Integration with JRuby and ReST

You can have rapid web development with Rails without losing access to your critical Java code. With the explosion of the Ruby programming language, more developers will need a strategy for letting Java and Ruby interoperate. This session explores two strategies: JRuby and Rails-based web services.

Where Agile meets Argyle: New processes in established companies

Agile programming is a collection of core principles and techniques that allow software developers to create lighter, more responsive applications, and to have fun doing it. Many established organizations are either openly or sub-conciously hostile to many of the principles of Agile development.

Building ChangingThePresent: Agility in Action

ChangingThePresent is the increasingly popular charity donations portal that lets you give donation gifts instead of another pair of fuzzy slippers. The site is built and maintained under unusual circumstances. The team is distributed, with no more than two developers in any one place. The team uses agile techniques such as automated testing, heavy customer involvement, and a SCRUM-like release plan to deliver the core features.

Ruby for Java programmers

With the explosion of Ruby on Rails and the Java community interest in features like closures and continuations, the Ruby programming language is an excellent one for all developers to know. As the JRuby virtual machine picks up steam, Ruby becomes a must language to understand. The best way to learn Ruby is to see it in action.

Effective Teams

Most conferences will try to tell you that the secret to good software development lies with a process, or a technology, or an architecture. Here's a dirty little secret. You can build working software with an outdated two tier archtiecture, a waterfall process and COBOL. How? By building a great team. These techniques were used to build one of the most unique and complex up and coming Ruby on Rails sites.

Rails for Java Programmers

The productivity of Ruby on Rails cannot be denied, but the explosion of Ruby on Rails left many developers, with hard commitments to Java deployment platforms, out in the cold. The continued evolution of JRuby can change that. JRuby is a Ruby implementation on the Java virtual machine. And yes, it runs Rails. In this session, you will learn Rails as it was meant to be learned, within the context of building a live site, from scratch.





Books by Bruce Tate

Beyond Java
by Bruce Tate

Beyond Java

Better, Faster, Lighter Java
by Bruce Tate, Justin Gehtland

Better, Faster, Lighter Java

Bitter Java
by Bruce Tate

Bitter Java
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Bitter EJB
by Bruce Tate

Bitter EJB
  • Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) are the server-side core of J2EE application development. This guide discusses common programming problems (referred to as "antipatterns") encountered by developers when working with EJB. Although acknowledging EJB's shortcomings, the authors demonstrate that it may be applied effectively to build distributed, transactional, scalable systems that solve real problems. Coverage includes sessions, messaging APIs, persistence, and performance tuning. Tate is also the author of Bitter Java (2002).
  • Available At: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1930110952/qid..

Spring: A Developer's Notebook
by Bruce Tate

Spring: A Developer's Notebook
  • Spring: A Developer's Notebook offers a quick dive into the new Spring framework, designed to let you get hands-on as quickly as you like. If you don't want to bother with a lot of theory, this book is definitely for you. You'll work through one example after another. Along the way, you'll discover the energy and promise of the Spring framework.
  • Available At: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596009100/ref..

From Java to Ruby: Things Every Manager Should Know
by Bruce Tate

From Java to Ruby: Things Every Manager Should Know
  • If you're a Java programmer who is contemplating using Ruby for the first time, brace yourself. The technical challenges are not necessarily the most demanding ones. From Java to Ruby addresses the political side of the equation. Find out why Ruby's risk profile is decreasing for certain projects even as Java's accelerates. Understand the pilot strategy others have used successfully. Hear what experts, customers and contributors have to say about Ruby.
  • Available At: http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_j2r/index.html