Greater Toronto Software Symposium - Oct. 20 - 22, 2006

Pragmatic Usability (aka, Software Engineer's Guide to Usability)

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 01:22:00 CDT

Greater Toronto Software Symposium - Session Information

Pragmatic Usability (aka, Software Engineer's Guide to Usability)
by Nathaniel Schutta

This talk will provide an overview of usability from the perspective of the software engineer.

Greater Toronto Software Symposium - Oct. 20 - 22, 2006

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:00:00 CDT

No Fluff Just Stuff is pleased to announce the Greater Toronto Software Symposium, Oct. 20 - 22, 2006.

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Java5: The Language, The Libraries, The VM
by Ted Neward

Java5 introduced a whole slew of new features, including annotations (JSR 175), new language features (the enhanced for loop, generics, static imports, and more), new library support (java.lang.instrument, among others), and some interesting enhancements to the virtual machine itself.

Applied REST
by Brian Sletten

REST sounds like such a simple thing. But, what is it really? How do you convince your boss to let you try it when she has been sold on the equation SOAP = SOA + P(rofit)? How do you go about building, deploying, publishing and orchestrating web services without the (Un)Holy Trinity of SOAP, WSDL and UDDI?

"Bottom 10" Reasons that Agile Teams Fail
by Clinton Begin

Agile methodologies such as eXtreme Programming and SCRUM are hot topics today -- and they are also hot targets. When things go wrong on an agile project, it's far too convenient to blame the methodology.

Greater Toronto Software Symposium - Oct. 20 - 22, 2006

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:00:00 CDT

No Fluff Just Stuff is pleased to announce the Greater Toronto Software Symposium, Oct. 20 - 22, 2006.

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Ready, Set, Agile?
by David Hussman

As with many methodologies, moving agile into an organizations poses larger challenges. Before jumping in, it helps to ask a few questions before "racing toward agility". This session will provide 3 tactical steps that can help your adoption of agile.

Applied REST
by Brian Sletten

Java Performance Myths
by Glenn Vanderburg

Performance myths about the Java platform abound, from the general "Java is slow", to the more specific "reflection is slow", "allocation is slow", "synchronization is slow", "garbage collection is slow", etc. Many of these myths have their root in fact (in JDK 1.0, everything was slow); today, not only are many of these statements not true, but Java performance has surpassed that of C in many areas, such as memory management.