Twin Cities Software Symposium - Apr. 13 - 15, 2007

Groovy for Java Programmers

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:00:07 CST

Twin Cities Software Symposium - Session Information

Groovy for Java Programmers
by Venkat Subramaniam

In this session we will learn what Groovy is. We will take an example driven approach to look at interesting features. We will see how a piece of code you would write in Java can be written, elegantly, using Groovy. In addition to the current features, we will also discuss the state of the language and tools.

Twin Cities Software Symposium - Apr. 13 - 15, 2007

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:00:00 CST

No Fluff Just Stuff is pleased to announce the Twin Cities Software Symposium, Apr. 13 - 15, 2007.

Catch these Featured Sessions

Ajax development with the Yahoo! UI Library and Grails
by Scott Davis

Yahoo! is a company that eats its own dog food. They open sourced the Ajax code that drives many of their own websites, including their eponymous homepage, Yahoo! Mail, and Yahoo! News. Come see first hand how the various pieces of the library work together as a seamless whole.

Ajaxian Faces
by David Geary

JavaServer Faces is a perfect platform for implementing Web 2.0 interfaces with Ajax. This session explores how you can use these two potent technologies--JSF and Ajax--together to create applications that look and behave like desktop applications but run in the browser.

SOA & Event Driven Architectures (EDA) ? Lessons from the field?
by Mark Kirby

In today?s enterprise many individual applications are sewn together in a federated conglomeration to implement enterprise business processes; processes that are driven by the dynamic nature of sales, manufacturing, shipping, and human workflow intricacies. SOA & EDA are ideally suited to address these dynamic, large, and often times cross application and divisional problem domains.

Twin Cities Software Symposium - Apr. 13 - 15, 2007

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:00:00 CST

No Fluff Just Stuff is pleased to announce the Twin Cities Software Symposium, Apr. 13 - 15, 2007.

Catch these Featured Sessions

Java NIO
by Brian Pontarelli

The Java NIO packages that were added in JDK 1.4 and these packages allow Java applications to perform true non-blocking IO operations. This presentation will cover the basics of the standard IO packages, which date back to the beginning of Java, and some of the shortcomings they have. This will be followed by coverage of the newer NIO packages and how they address these issues.

Learning Tapestry 4
by Howard Lewis Ship

An introduction to the Apache Tapestry web application framework, which will explain the concepts and features of the framework with some simple applications. We'll discsuss Tapestry forms, request cycle, component object model. The use of several important components (including the powerful Table data grid) will be featured.

Build Teams, Not Products
by Jared Richardson

A great team builds great software, but how do you build a great team?