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May. 14 - Dallas, TX
10 Ways to Improve Your Code
by Neal Ford
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May. 15 - Salt Lake City, UT
Thorough Introduction to Groovy
by Jeff Brown
Utah Java Users Group - more »
May. 20 - St. Paul, Minnesota
The Busy Developer's Guide to Scala by Ted Neward
by Ted Neward
Object Technology User Group - more »
Jun. 11 - Calgary, AB
Core Groovy
by Andrew Glover
Calgary Java Users Group - more »
Jun. 11 - Dallas, Texas
Grails - Agile Web 2.0 The Easy Way
by Jeff Brown
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  • Erik Doernenburg

    Principal Consultant @ Thoughtworks

    Another major improvement of OCMock: it now supports more flexible constraints on the expected arguments. This is done in the Objective-C way... more»

  • Venkat Subramaniam

    Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

    A few weeks ago I was writing a method in Groovy that needed to return three different results, two strings and one array. As I was writing... more»

  • Howard Lewis Ship

    Creator of Tapestry and HiveMind

    Renat and Igor's long awaited article, Tapestry for Nonbelievers is finally available. more»

  • Neal Ford

    Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, Inc.

    I'm speaking at the upcoming more»

  • Matt Raible

    Creator of AppFuse and author of Spring Live

    The AppFuse Team is pleased to announce the release of AppFuse 2.0.2. This release includes upgrades to Spring Security 2.0, jMock 2.4, the... more»

  • Ted Neward

    Enterprise, Virtual Machine and Language Wonk

    Not too long ago, Don wrote: The three most ? more»

  • Graeme Rocher

    Project Lead of the Grails Project & CTO of G2One

    As I write this JavaOne 08 is being wrapped up and I am horizontal in bed. I somehow managed to get pleurisy and pneumonia a few days before... more»

  • Alex Miller

    Sr. Engineer with Terracotta Inc.

    This talk was by Gil Tene and Michael Wolf from Azul. Azul has their own concurrent garbage collector although this talk focused mostly on... more»

  • Vladimir Vivien

    Software Engineer / Consultant

    The last day of JavaOne 2008 was heralded by the final General Session where Sun showcased several cool projects. Here are a few you maybe... more»

  • Michael Nygard

    Agile technology leader and dynamicist

    Apparently, there's a virus attack. Not a computer virus. A real virus. Hot zone instead of a hot spot.From my inbox this morning: more»

  • Jared Richardson

    Agile coach and co-author of Ship It

    It's good to read a story like this every now and again just to remind yourself how bad it is in some places. more»

  • Mike Levin

    Software Developer specializing in Web2.0 websites

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  • Pramod Sadalage

    Co-author of "Refactoring Databases:Evolutionary Database Development"

    We had a weird requirement on our project recently.. Find all the Rows in All the tables that do not comply with the Constraints more»

  • Kirk Knoernschild

    Software Developer & Mentor

    It’s time to move on and show the simple elegance Spring brings to OSGi development using the HelloWorldSpec sample from the more»

  • Guillaume LaForge

    Groovy Spec Lead & Project Manager

    This is with great pleasure that G2One and the Groovy development team announce the first beta more»

  • Jeff Brown

    G2One Director Of North American Operations - Groovy and Grails Developer

    We have been busy preparing for JavaOne and it is finally almost here. Yay!We hope to see y more»

  • Craig Walls

    Author of Spring in Action

    I read thi s last night, but I have seen this coming for over a year. more»

  • Andrew Glover

    Co-author of "Continuous Integration"

    On more than one occasion, I’ve been asked by various hip developers if there was a conversion script for transforming existing Ant... more»

  • Jason Rudolph

    Author of Getting Started with Grails

    Muness blogged a photographic introductio more»

  • David Bock

    Principal Consultant, CodeSherpas Inc.

    Installing CentOS 5, ImageMagick, and RMagick I don‘t normally blog about obscure, specific technical topics, mainly because 99% of more»

  • Scott Leberknight

    Chief Architect at Near Infinity

    Have you ever wondered, what is the best way to implement SOA in your organization? How can it help you? What benefits await and what are the... more»

  • Brian Pontarelli

    Brian Pontarelli - founder of Inversoft

    Found this funny. Looks like Lenovo has some issues in their pricing application today. I was planning on purchasing an X300 at some point,... more»

  • Jason Harwig

    Software Engineer

    pre { font-size:80%; } Of the trinity of web technologies, CSS is by far the worst at this stage. It's a language more»

  • Pratik Patel

    Software Architect

    Shake off that St. Patrick's day hang-over by coming over to the AJUG meeting this Tuesday, March 1 more»

  • Pete Behrens

    Organizational Agility Coach

    Marti nig & Associates Methods & Tools group recentl more»

  • Nathaniel Schutta

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

    Like pretty much any office with more than 3 people, we struggle with the ephemeral concept of more»

  • Joseph Nusairat

    Author of Beginning JBoss Seam & Co-Author of Beginning Groovy & Grails

    Today is the first day of JBoss World, I survived the first three presentations and waiting for the keynote to be  complete to d more»

  • Richard Monson-Haefel

    VP of Developer Relations, Curl Inc.

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  • Brian Sam-Bodden

    Java author, Ruby geek and Open Source Advocate

    In this installment we are going to build the Dashboard page of the Tempo application. T more»

  • Mark Fisher

    Spring Integration Lead

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  • Ron Bodkin

    Chief Software Architect, Quantcast

    I'm looking forward to speaking at The Rich Web Experience conference in San Jose next month. The event runs from September 7th through 9th.... more»

  • Mark Goodwin

    Web Application Security Specialist

    We've already looked at one of the two big problems posed by anti DNS pinning on Java applets; because there's rebinding on the applet and... more»

  • Scott Davis

    Author of "Groovy Recipes" & TDD Expert

    Every time I see a live show at the Denver Botanic more»

  • Brian Goetz

    Author of Java Concurrency in Practice

    Recently, Neal Gafter mused about whether we should consider removing more»

  • Romain Guy

    Java User Interface expert.

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  • Ramnivas Laddad

    Author of AspectJ in Action, Principal at Interface21

    InfoQ.com has published my AOP myths and realities talk recorded at a No Fluff Just Stuff conference. InfoQ.com founded by Floyd Marine more»

  • David Geary

    Author of Graphic Java Swing and Co-author of Core JSF

    The 2006 NFJS tour kicked off t more»

  • Jason Hunter

    Author of Java Servlet Programming

    I just posted the JDOM 1.1 release for download. This release includes about 20 improvements and bug fixes. more»

  • Stuart Halloway

    CEO of Relevance

    <p>We are happy to announce that <a href='http://www.mckinneystation.co m/'>Geof Dagley</a> has joined the Relev more»


In the Spotlight - David Hussman

Agility Instructor/Mentor

David has been creating software for more than 15 years in a variety of domains: digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, financial, retail, legal, and education to name a few. For the past 8 years, David has mentored and coached agile teams in the U.S., Canada, Europe, India, Egypt, Russia, and Ukraine. Along with presenting and leading workshops / tutorials at conferences in the U.S. and Europe, David has contributed to several books (Managing Agile Projects and Agile in the Large), and worked on agile curriculum for The University of Minnesota and Capella University. David is currently writing a book for the Pragmatic Programmer series.

David leads DevJam, a Minneapolis based company composed of agile collaborators. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam focuses on using agile to help people and companies improve their software production skills. DevJam provides seasoned leaders that strive to pragmatically match technology, people, and processes in a way which produces software that makes people happier and more productive.

For more information, check out the DevJam website www.devjam.biz

















Presentations by David Hussman

Agile, Smagile: What's Working? - What's Not?

With the growth of agile comes the need to add a new line to the Agile Manifesto: Success over Dogma. The number of people who can say agile is growing faster than the number of people benefiting from agile practices. There are now many successful agile projects, yet there are also a growing number of projects claiming to be agile but not seeing any of the benefits agile methods provide. This session will discuss successful adoptions of agile, dumb things you can do to muck it up, and more.

Test Driven Everything

Why do we wait to test? Of course when you read this your thoughts went to testing code. While we still wait to test code and products early, we also wait to test ideas, projects, product direction, meetings and more. This session will show you (or challenge you) to think about test driven beyond the coding realm. You will be doing some thinking and talking and other things that involve more than just listening to someone blather with slides for 90 minutes.

Leading Agile Projects: Finding Your Groove in the First 4 Iterations

Although there are many books about agile, but few provide a path for guiding you through the beginning of an agile project. Whether you are preparing for your first agile project, or taking the lead for the first time, this session will provide a guided tour filled with practical advice and a pile of anecdotes.

Agile Immersion

Have you heard about SCRUM or XP but never done it? If you want to give it a try, this session will allow you to participate in planning and executing several agile iterations. A working knowledge of either XP or SCRUM will be helpful but not mandatory.

Architecture and Agility Are Not Mutually Exclusive

Being agile does not mean living life one iteration at a time. Agile projects without a long view can run into the common design problems of the past. Planning iteration by iteration is often foolish and feeds the myth that agile projects do not think beyond a few weeks. Successful agile projects plan within iterations and across iterations. The later planning is called release planning and it is the forum where agility first engages architecture and other cross cutting concerns.

Leading Agile Projects: Maintaining Sustainable Agility

Once your agile project is rolling along, there are many bumps and roadblocks which can derail the train. Whether you are leading the project formally or informally, there are techniques you can use to keep the project alive and innovative. This session will cover skills and techniques for leading sustainable project communities.