Twin Cities Software Symposium - Oct. 12 - 14, 2007

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:00:00 CDT

No Fluff Just Stuff is pleased to announce the Twin Cities Software Symposium, Oct. 12 - 14, 2007.

Catch these Featured Sessions

Test Driven Development With Groovy And Grails
by Jeff Brown

The value of Test Driven Development (TDD) has become widely accepted. The practice has extended beyond just XP teams. Good TDD practices yield high quality software and help teams maintain confidence in their software as complexity grows. The dynamic nature of Groovy makes TDD easy and fun. Groovy may be used to unit test not only Groovy code but other code as well. Testing Java code with Groovy is a snap. Learn to use the power of Groovy to test your systems.

Test Infecting the Legacy Organization
by Nathaniel Schutta

When starting a new project, most developers make sure that testing is a priority. However, only the lucky few live in the idyllic world of greenfield development; the vast majority of us must contend with code written when "test" was a four letter word and testing was the sole responsibility of that "other" organization. We'll examine some techniques for introducing testing - not just to your code but to the rest of your development organization.

Java Memory, Performance and the Garbage Collector
by Ken Sipe

You are using Java, whew!!! No need to worry about memory, the garbage collector will handle that. Those who have had a memory issue in Java are not so naive any more. Often memory utilization and heap sizes are an after thought and are not recognized until the application is in production, often caused by application uptime, production request volume or production sets of data. When the OutOfMemory Error occurs, often the science of development seems to brake down and knobs are turned. First the (-mx) maximum heap space gets adjusted... More is better right. The next OutOfMemory, heads start scratching, code reviews start in earnest, and Google gets several new hits. Did you know that it is possible to get an OutOfMemory error without running out of heap space?

Twin Cities Software Symposium - Oct. 12 - 14, 2007

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:00:00 CDT

No Fluff Just Stuff is pleased to announce the Twin Cities Software Symposium, Oct. 12 - 14, 2007.

Catch these Featured Sessions

Metrics-driven Agile Development
by Neal Ford

Agile software development is a highly disciplined way to build software, and one of the side effects of this discipline is the ability to gather meaningful metrics. This session describes what makes agility perfectly suited to metrics gathering and what kinds of real-world metrics you can generate.

Spring Cleaning: Tips for managing XML clutter in your Spring configuration
by Craig Walls

The biggest complaint about Spring is the vast amount of XML required to configure an application. In this presentation, I'll show you ways to reduce or even eliminate much of the XML required to configure Spring.

10 ways to use Hibernate effectively
by Brian Sam-Bodden

Learn 10 tried and true ways to improve the way you use Hibernate today. In this session you would learn about a collection of 10 tips, tricks, practices and tools that will make you more effective at designing, implementing, testing and tuning your application's Hibernate-powered object-relational layer.