Rocky Mountain Software Symposium - Nov. 09 - 11, 2007

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:00 CDT

No Fluff Just Stuff is pleased to announce the Rocky Mountain Software Symposium, Nov. 09 - 11, 2007.

Catch these Featured Sessions

This Week In Refactoring
by Stuart Halloway

Contributing to open source is great for your career. In a few short hours, you can learn, teach, promote your skills, and improve the quality of the community. In this talk, we will show you how, by doing it.

Getting to know Maven 2
by Chris Maki

Getting to know Maven 2, focuses on key Maven 2 concepts so you can start using Maven today. Maven 2 was released about two years ago, and is rapidly becoming the build tool of choice for projects like AppFuse and Spring. Unlike other tools that help you compile your source code, Maven 2 represents a holistic view of project management. Not only does it allow you to build your project, it provides metrics, reports, documentation and repository management. Topics covered include:What is Maven (Myths and Facts), an overview of maven, building an example Maven project, and how to use multi-module projects.

Agile Project Management with Mingle
by Neal Ford

Mingle is an innovative project management tool with "skinnable religion", virtual card walls, highly customizable workflow, and role-based views. This talk describes its setup, use, and some implementation details of how it was created.

Rocky Mountain Software Symposium - Nov. 09 - 11, 2007

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:00:00 CDT

No Fluff Just Stuff is pleased to announce the Rocky Mountain Software Symposium, Nov. 09 - 11, 2007.

Catch these Featured Sessions

Domain Driven Design
by Venkat Subramaniam

Domain Driven Design (DDD) is an approach that places emphasis on the domain model and carrying it into implementation. DDD is mostly repackaging of fundamental OO Design. It brings new emphasis to what we should be already doing, but often find it hard and confusing given the realities and complexities of our real world. In this presentation we will take a close look at what DDD is and how to use it for agile development. We will discuss several design options, and also look at some examples of good modeling and layering.

RESTlet for the Weary
by Brian Sletten

If you have started to take a look at REST as way of exposing web services or managing information spaces, you may be frustrated by the support offered by legacy containers. There is no direct support for REST concepts in the J2EE specs (yet). XML-based configurations are so 1990's. Come learn about Restlets, a little API that has caught the attention of many in the RESTafarian community.

Effective Concurrent Java
by Brian Goetz

The Java programming language has turned a generation of applications programmers into concurrent programmers through its direct support of multithreading. However, the Java concurrency primitives are just that: primitive. From them you can build many concurrency utilities, but doing so takes great care as concurrent programming poses many traps for the unwary.