Ian Roughley

Software Consultant

Ian Roughley

Ian Roughley is a speaker, author, and consultant based in Boston, MA, where he runs From Down & Around, Inc., a consultancy specializing in architecture, development, and process improvement services. For more than 10 years, he has been helping clients ranging in size from Fortune 10 companies to start-ups.

Focused on a pragmatic and results-based approach, he is a proponent for open source, as well as process and quality improvements through agile development techniques.

Ian is a committer on the XWork and WebWork projects; member of the Apache Struts PMC; and speaks at conferences in the United States and abroad. He is also a Sun Certified Java Programmer and J2EE Enterprise Architect and an IBM Certified Solutions Architect.



Blog

Agility & DSLs in Functional Testing

Posted Wednesday, April 5, 2006

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Will AJAX Increase Browser Incompatibilities?

Posted Saturday, January 7, 2006

Just the other night I was debugging the WebWork integration with dojo - looking imore »

Where are your change comments?

Posted Thursday, April 14, 2005

As software engineers, much of what we do every day is ensuring that there is only a smore »
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Presentations

Evaluating Open Source Solutions

Many companies and most, if not all, software today utilizes open source. Whether it is databases, application servers, frameworks or libraries, these projects are fast becoming a standard commodity for building business-related functionality upon and spmore »

Code Coverage: A Guardian of Quality

Code coverage is generally viewed as a metrics that managers use to chart progress, a number that has to be blindly attained. In this talk we discuss everything that you, the developer, need to know to make it more than a number and part of a process thamore »

8 Steps to Struts2

This presentation introduces the features of Struts2, and the framework differences between it and Struts, by iteratively migrating a simple application in 8 steps. more »