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May. 14 - Dallas, TX
10 Ways to Improve Your Code
by Neal Ford
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May. 15 - Salt Lake City, UT
Thorough Introduction to Groovy
by Jeff Brown
Utah Java Users Group - more »

May. 20 - St. Paul, Minnesota
The Busy Developer's Guide to Scala by Ted Neward
by Ted Neward
Object Technology User Group - more »

Jun. 11 - Calgary, AB
Core Groovy
by Andrew Glover
Calgary Java Users Group - more »

Jun. 11 - Dallas, Texas
Grails - Agile Web 2.0 The Easy Way
by Jeff Brown
JavaMUG - more »

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Matt Raible
Creator of AppFuse and author of Spring Live

The AppFuse Team is pleased to announce the release of AppFuse 2.0.2. This release includes upgrades to Spring Security 2.0, jMock 2.4, the... more»
Ted Neward
Enterprise, Virtual Machine and Language Wonk

Not too long ago, Don wrote: The three most ? more»
Graeme Rocher
Project Lead of the Grails Project & CTO of G2One

As I write this JavaOne 08 is being wrapped up and I am horizontal in bed. I somehow managed to get pleurisy and pneumonia a few days before... more»
Alex Miller
Sr. Engineer with Terracotta Inc.

This talk was by Gil Tene and Michael Wolf from Azul. Azul has their own concurrent garbage collector although this talk focused mostly on... more»
Vladimir Vivien
Software Engineer / Consultant

The last day of JavaOne 2008 was heralded by the final General Session where Sun showcased several cool projects. Here are a few you maybe... more»
Michael Nygard
Agile technology leader and dynamicist

Apparently, there's a virus attack. Not a computer virus. A real virus. Hot zone instead of a hot spot.From my inbox this morning: more»
Jared Richardson
Agile coach and co-author of Ship It

It's good to read a story like this every now and again just to remind yourself how bad it is in some places. more»
Mike Levin
Software Developer specializing in Web2.0 websites

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Howard Lewis Ship
Creator of Tapestry and HiveMind

I spent some time yesterday revamping the Tapestry 5 Tutorial; you can see the updates at the more»
Pramod Sadalage
Co-author of "Refactoring Databases:Evolutionary Database Development"

We had a weird requirement on our project recently.. Find all the Rows in All the tables that do not comply with the Constraints more»
Kirk Knoernschild
Software Developer & Mentor

It’s time to move on and show the simple elegance Spring brings to OSGi development using the HelloWorldSpec sample from the more»
Guillaume LaForge
Groovy Spec Lead & Project Manager

This is with great pleasure that G2One and the Groovy development team announce the first beta more»
Venkat Subramaniam
Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

Earlier today I blogged about the more»
Jeff Brown
G2One Director Of North American Operations - Groovy and Grails Developer

We have been busy preparing for JavaOne and it is finally almost here. Yay!We hope to see y more»
Craig Walls
Author of Spring in Action

I read thi s last night, but I have seen this coming for over a year. more»
Neal Ford
Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, Inc.

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Andrew Glover
Co-author of "Continuous Integration"

On more than one occasion, I’ve been asked by various hip developers if there was a conversion script for transforming existing Ant... more»
Jason Rudolph
Author of Getting Started with Grails

Muness blogged a photographic introductio more»
David Bock
Principal Consultant, CodeSherpas Inc.

Installing CentOS 5, ImageMagick, and RMagick I don‘t normally blog about obscure, specific technical topics, mainly because 99% of more»
Scott Leberknight
Chief Architect at Near Infinity

Have you ever wondered, what is the best way to implement SOA in your organization? How can it help you? What benefits await and what are the... more»
Brian Pontarelli
Brian Pontarelli - founder of Inversoft

Found this funny. Looks like Lenovo has some issues in their pricing application today. I was planning on purchasing an X300 at some point,... more»
Jason Harwig
Software Engineer

pre { font-size:80%; } Of the trinity of web technologies, CSS is by far the worst at this stage. It's a language more»
Erik Doernenburg
Principal Consultant @ Thoughtworks

It has been in the making for some time but now the ThoughtWorks Anthology is available from the Pragmatic Programmers. The Anthology is a... more»
Pratik Patel
Software Architect

Shake off that St. Patrick's day hang-over by coming over to the AJUG meeting this Tuesday, March 1 more»
Pete Behrens
Organizational Agility Coach

Marti nig & Associates Methods & Tools group recentl more»
Nathaniel Schutta
Author, speaker, software engineer focused on user interface design.

Like pretty much any office with more than 3 people, we struggle with the ephemeral concept of more»
Joseph Nusairat
Author of Beginning JBoss Seam & Co-Author of Beginning Groovy & Grails

Today is the first day of JBoss World, I survived the first three presentations and waiting for the keynote to be complete to d more»
Richard Monson-Haefel
VP of Developer Relations, Curl Inc.

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Brian Sam-Bodden
Java author, Ruby geek and Open Source Advocate

In this installment we are going to build the Dashboard page of the Tempo application. T more»
Mark Fisher
Spring Integration Lead

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Ron Bodkin
Chief Software Architect, Quantcast

I'm looking forward to speaking at The Rich Web Experience conference in San Jose next month. The event runs from September 7th through 9th.... more»
Mark Goodwin
Web Application Security Specialist

We've already looked at one of the two big problems posed by anti DNS pinning on Java applets; because there's rebinding on the applet and... more»
Scott Davis
Author of "Groovy Recipes" & TDD Expert

Every time I see a live show at the Denver Botanic more»
Brian Goetz
Author of Java Concurrency in Practice

Recently, Neal Gafter mused about whether we should consider removing more»
Romain Guy
Java User Interface expert.

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Ramnivas Laddad
Author of AspectJ in Action, Principal at Interface21

InfoQ.com has published my AOP myths and realities talk recorded at a No Fluff Just Stuff conference. InfoQ.com founded by Floyd Marine more»
David Geary
Author of Graphic Java Swing and Co-author of Core JSF

The 2006 NFJS tour kicked off t more»
Jason Hunter
Author of Java Servlet Programming

I just posted the JDOM 1.1 release for download. This release includes about 20 improvements and bug fixes. more»
Stuart Halloway
CEO of Relevance

<p>We are happy to announce that <a href='http://www.mckinneystation.co m/'>Geof Dagley</a> has joined the Relev more»

Speakers

Alex Miller - Sr. Engineer with Terracotta Inc.

Alex Miller is a Sr. Engineer with Terracotta Inc, the makers of the open-source Java clustering product Terracotta. Prior to Terracotta, Alex worked at BEA Systems on the AquaLogic product line and was Chief Architect at MetaMatrix. His interests include Java, concurrency, distributed systems, query languages, and software design. Alex enjoys writing his blog at http://tech.puredanger.com and has spoken at a number of Java user group meetings and conferences.

Andrew Glover - Co-author of "Continuous Integration"

Andrew Glover is the President of Stelligent Incorporated, which helps companies address software quality with effective developer testing strategies and continuous integration techniques that enable teams to monitor code quality early and often.

Andrew was the founder of Vanward Technologies, which was acquired by JNetDirect in 2005. He is the co-author of Addison Wesley's "Continuous Integration", Manning's "Groovy in Action" and "Java Testing Patterns". He is an author for multiple online publications including IBM's developerWorks and Oreilly's ONJava and ONLamp portals. He actively blogs about software quality at thediscoblog.com and testearly.com.

Brian Goetz - Author of Java Concurrency in Practice

Brian Goetz has been a professional software developer for 20 years. He is the author of over 75 articles on software development, and his book, Java Concurrency In Practice, was published in May 2006 by Addison-Wesley. He serves on the JCP Expert Groups for JSRs 166 (concurrency utilities), 107 (caching), and 305 (annotations for safety analysis). He is a frequent presenter at JavaOne, OOPSLA, JavaPolis, SDWest, and the No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium Tour. Brian is a Sr. Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems.

Brian Maso - Brian is an avid XML, web services, and ESB engineer/architect/explorer

Brian is a long-time Java architect and real-world engineer, who can credibly wax nostagic about the JDK 1.0 beta days. In the decade since that release, Brian has worked mostly in and around places where web services and the Java VM reign. Clients have included: LeapFrog, Inc., GE Medical Systems, The Motor Cycle Council of America, Cardinal Health (Pyxis Corp. division), the U.S. Dept. of Defense, and many others.

Lately Brian has restricted his professional life to the bounds that his family of four children will allow, venturing away from coding and architecture work only to publish white papers, serve as an independent expert on the JSR 225 (XQJ) Expert Group, and of course share his astounding revelations to No Fluff Just Stuff symposium audiences.

Brian's specific interests include system integration through web services, ESBs and public service networks; and agile system- and unit-specification and testing.

In years past: Brian was the first Tips and Techniques Editor for the Java Developer's Journal; wrote four marginally useful technical books on Java and web development; was the first Java instructor for DevelopMentor, with whom he has delivered thousands of man-days of material to engineers across the maturity spectrum at companies and organizations across North America.

Brian Pontarelli - Brian Pontarelli - founder of Inversoft

Brian Pontarelli is the founder and president of Inversoft, a Colorado based software company. In addition to Inversoft, Brian works on many open source projects including Struts, Savant and Java.net commons. In the past, he was the president of the Chicago Java User Group and an enterprise architect for Orbitz.

Brian has been programming for many years and works primarily with Java and Ruby. He has published various articles in both print and online magazines about Java, J2EE security, Java Server Faces and NIO.

Brian Sam-Bodden - Java author, Ruby geek and Open Source Advocate

Brian Sam-Bodden is an author and recognized international speaker that has spent over twelve years working with object technologies, with an emphasis on the Java platform and in recent times falling in love with Ruby. He holds dual bachelor degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University in computer science and physics and is the president and chief software architect for Integrallis http://www.integrallis.com, where he focuses on building great applications with Java and Ruby. Brian has worked as an architect, developer, mentor, and trainer for several Fortune 500 companies in the tax, insurance, retail sciences, telecommunications, distribution, banking, finance, aviation, and scientific data management industries. As an independent consultant, he has promoted the use of open source in the industry by educating his clients on the cost benefits and productivity gains they can achieve. He is a frequent speaker at user groups and conferences nationally and abroad. Brian is the author of "Beginning POJOs: Spring, Hibernate, JBoss and Tapestry" and has also co-authored the Apress Java title "Enterprise Java Development on a Budget: Leveraging Java Open Source Technologies".

Brian Sletten - Forward Leaning Software Consultant

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. He has a background as a system architect, a developer, a mentor and a trainer. His experience has spanned defense, finance and commercial domains with security consulting, network matrix switch controls, 3D simulation/visualization, Grid Computing, P2P and Semantic Web-based systems. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and currently lives in Fairfax, VA. He is a partner in Zepheira, LLC, a new services company focused on using semantic-oriented technologies to solve architectural and data integration problems not handled by conventional tools and techniques.

Burr Sutter - Software Architect

Burr Sutter is a current Sun Java Champion, President of the Atlanta Java Users Group and President of the Atlanta Chapter of the
International Association of Software Architects. He has over 15 years of software design and development experience along with numerous published articles, book chapters and developer conference speaking engagements. He is presently employed at JBoss, a division of Red Hat.

Chris Maki - Principal Engineer at Overstock.com, author JPA 101: Java Persistence Explained

Chris Maki is a Principal Software Engineer at Overstock.com. Before joining Overstock.com, Chris was an independent consultant specializing in server-side Java development. He has been designing and building server-side systems for 15 years in C++, Objective-C, and Java.

Chris spent many years working as an enterprise architect specializing in large-scale Java system design and development. In addition to being a Java evangelist, he is an avid proponent of Agile Software Development.

Chris is the President of the Utah Java User Group and a member of the WebBeans expert group (JSR-299) and the JPA 2.0 expert group (JSR-317). He is also the author of JPA 101: Java Persistence Explained.

Craig Walls - Author of Spring in Action

Craig Walls has been professionally developing software for over 13 years (and longer than that for the pure geekiness of it). He is the author of Spring in Action (now in its second edition) and XDoclet in Action, both published by Manning.

When he's not slinging code, Craig spends as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 6 birds, 3 dogs, and an ever-fluctuating number of tropical fish.

Dan Haywood - Lead Developer of the Naked Objects IDE

Dan Haywood is well-known as an advocate of Naked Objects, having been a lead contributor for the past 5 years. He was instrumental in the success of the first large-scale Naked Objects systems which now delivers pensions and other benefits to over 250,000 senior citizens in Ireland. Dan is also lead developer of the Naked Objects IDE and a committer to the Naked Objects Framework.

Dan provides consulting and training services on domain driven design and agile development through his own company, in particular with respect to the use of Naked Objects. Previously Dan has worked as a technical consultant at Sybase UK and on large-scale projects at TheServerSide and elsewhere, and in 2002 he co-authored Better Software Faster, a book on best practice using TogetherJ. Right now he is currently writing a book on Domain Driven Design and Naked Objects for the Pragmatic Bookshelf, due 2008.

David Bock - Principal Consultant, CodeSherpas Inc.

David Bock is a Principal Consultant at CodeSherpas, a company he founded in 2007. Mr. Bock is also the President of the Northern Virginia Java Users Group, the Editor of O'Reilly's OnJava.com website, and a frequent speaker on technology in venues such as the No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposiums.

In January 2006, Mr. Bock was honored by being awarded the title of Java Champion by a panel of esteemed leaders in the Java Community in a program sponsored by Sun. There are approximately 100 active Java Champions worldwide.

David has also served on several JCP panels, including the Specification of the Java 6 Platform and the upcoming Java Module System.

In addition to his public speaking and training activities, Mr. Bock actively consults as a software engineer, project manager, and team mentor for commercial and government clients.

David Geary - Author of Graphic Java Swing and Co-author of Core JSF

A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique qualification as a Java expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces (JSF). David's Graphic Java Swing was one of the best-selling Java books of all-time and Core JSF, which David wrote with Cay Horstman, is the best-selling book on JavaServer Faces.

David was one of a handful of experts on the JSF Expert Group (EG) that actively defined the standard Java-based web application framework, and he's currently helping to define the next version of JSF on the JSF 2.0 EG.

Besides serving on the JSF and JSTL Expert Groups, David has contributed to open-source projects and co-authored Sun's Web Developer Certification Exam. He invented the Struts Template library which was the precursor to Tiles, a popular framework for composing web pages from JSP fragments, was the 2nd Struts committer and contributed to Shale.

A regular on the NFJS tour, David also speaks at other conferences such as JavaOne and JavaPolis. David was twice voted a JavaOne rock star, for presentations in 2005 and 2007.

At NFJS, David loves to interact with attendees and is known for his sense of humor, dazzling demos and electrifying live-coding sessions.

David Hussman - Agility Instructor/Mentor

David has been creating software for more than 15 years in a variety of domains: digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, financial, retail, legal, and education to name a few. For the past 8 years, David has mentored and coached agile teams in the U.S., Canada, Europe, India, Egypt, Russia, and Ukraine. Along with presenting and leading workshops / tutorials at conferences in the U.S. and Europe, David has contributed to several books (Managing Agile Projects and Agile in the Large), and worked on agile curriculum for The University of Minnesota and Capella University. David is currently writing a book for the Pragmatic Programmer series.

David leads DevJam, a Minneapolis based company composed of agile collaborators. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam focuses on using agile to help people and companies improve their software production skills. DevJam provides seasoned leaders that strive to pragmatically match technology, people, and processes in a way which produces software that makes people happier and more productive.

For more information, check out the DevJam website www.devjam.biz

Dean H. Saxe - Managing Consultant at Foundstone

Dean H. Saxe is a Managing Consultant at Foundstone, A Division of McAfee, where he is responsible for conducting web application penetration testing, threat modeling, code reviews, secure software development lifecycle (S-SDLC) design and implementation, and project management. Prior to joining Foundstone, Dean spent more than 8 years developing web application in Java and ColdFusion in a variety of industries. While working in the banking sector, Dean's interest in application security was sparked and has grown steadily over the past five years. Dean also provides client education services as a lead instructor of these Foundstone courses: Building Secure Software, Writing Secure Code: Java/J2EE, and Writing Secure Code: ColdFusion. Dean holds the CISSP and Certified Ethical Hacker designations.

When not working, Dean enjoying hiking, cooking, homebrewing and traveling the world.

Deborah Hartmann - Agile Process Coach

Deborah is the Agile Community Editor for InfoQ.com, and works as an Agile Process Coach in Toronto on on the east coast.

Deb is passionate about making teamwork valuable and rewarding, and has mentored colleagues and improved software teams throughout her 25-year journey from programmer to coach. She injects excitement and laughter into everything she does.

She is a visual artist, a certified Practicing Scrum Master, runs the Open Space track at XPday North America events, and provides active leadership in both international and local Agile communities.

Deb muses aloud at www.vitalbrew.com.

Derek Lane - Co-Author of EJB3 In Action

Derek Lane is the CTO at Semantra. He has worn various hats in his career including mentor, coach, architect, manager, developer, trainer, methodologist and all around cool guy. Derek is a contributor to various projects as author, presenter, committer, and technical reviewer, including his most recent role as co-author for the book, "EJB3 In Action", published by Manning.

Derek is the Founder of both the Oklahoma City Java User Group (OKCJUG) and the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas MicroJava User Group; and has been active as a member, presenter, and mentor for over a decade at various technology user groups across the Midwest and Southern US.

Derek can on occasion be found utilizing his background in engineering, Virtual Reality and 3D graphics to think in four or more dimensions - some of which have yet to be independently verified. When not exploring the mind numbing edge of technology, he can be found listening to Bluegrass music and watching old Kung Fu movies - a dangerous combination from any point of view.

Erik Doernenburg - Principal Consultant @ Thoughtworks

Erik Doernenburg is a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks Inc. where he is helping clients with the design and implementation of large-scale enterprise solutions. Building on his experience with J2EE, Microsoft .NET and other environments, Erik is continually exploring patterns of enterprise software. He is an advocate of agile development and Open Source software, holds a degree in Informatics from the University of Dortmund and has studied Computer Science and Linguistics at the University College Dublin

Graeme Rocher - Project Lead of the Grails Project & CTO of G2One

Graeme Rocher is the project lead and co-founder of the Grails web application framework. He's a member of the JSR-241 Expert Group which standardizes the Groovy language. Graeme authored the Definitive Guide to Grails for Apress and is a frequent speaker at JavaOne, JavaPolis, NoFluffJustStuff, JAOO, the Sun TechDays and more. Before founding G2One Inc, Graeme was the CTO of SkillsMatter, a skills transfer company specializing in Open Source technology and agile software development, where Graeme was in charge of the company's courseware development strategy and general technical direction.

Guillaume LaForge - Groovy Spec Lead & Project Manager

As the official Groovy Project Manager and Spec Lead of JSR-241 standardizing the Groovy Scripting Language, Guillaume Laforge spends his spare time bringing a versatile and agile environment to the masses and initiated a year ago the seed of Grails, the Groovy & Spring web framework. He is also co-authoring Manning's "Groovy in Action" with Dierk K?nig, one of the passionate Groovy developers.
In his professional life, Guillaume is a software architect and Open Source consultant, working for OCTO Technology, a French-based consultancy
focusing on architecture of software and information systems.

Howard Lewis Ship - Creator of Tapestry and HiveMind

Howard Lewis Ship is the creator and lead developer for the Apache Tapestry project, and the creator of the Apache HiveMind project. He has over fifteen years of full-time software development under his belt, with over nine years of Java. He cut his teeth writing customer support software for Stratus Computer, but eventually traded PL/1 for Objective-C and NeXTSTEP before settling into Java.

Howard is the author of Tapestry in Action for Manning Publications (which covers Tapestry 3.0), and is currently the Director of Open Source Technology for Formos Software Development. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Suzanne, a novelist.

Howard is polishing the last rough edges of Tapestry 5 in anticipation of a final 5.0 release.

Jared Richardson - Agile coach and co-author of Ship It

Jared Richardson, co-author of Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful
Software Projects, is a speaker and agile coach at 6th Sense Analytics. Jared has been in the industry for more than fifteen years as a consultant, developer, tester, and manager.

Until recently he was an independent consultant focused helping teams build better software. He's now bringing that same focus to 6th Sense Analytics and their clients, using both the 6th Sense toolset and his unique experience. Jared can be found online at Agile Artisans and the Sixth Sense Analytics blog.

Jason Harwig - Software Engineer

Jason Harwig is a software engineer at Near Infinity Corporation, an enterprise software development and consulting services company headquartered in Reston, Virginia. Jason's research interests include dynamic languages, as well as client-side technologies such as Swing, SWT, Cocoa, Eclipse RCP and 3D programming. He is excited about the resurgence in JavaScript's popularity, and looks forward to bringing a new level of richness to web applications. Jason holds a BS in both Computer Science and Information Technology from Marquette University.

Jason Hunter - Author of Java Servlet Programming

Jason Hunter is Principal Technologist with Mark Logic, specializing in large-scale XML content manipulation using XQuery. He's probably best known as the author of "Java Servlet Programming" (O'Reilly Media). He's also an Apache Member and as Apache's representative on the Java Community Process Executive Committee he established a landmark agreement allowing open source Java. He's publisher of Servlets.com and XQuery.com, an original contributer to Apache Tomcat (and Apache Ant committer), the creator of the JDOM open source project, a member of the expert groups responsible for Servlet, JSP, JAXP, and XQJ API development, and was recently appointed Sun Java Champion. In 2003, he received the Oracle Magazine Author of the Year award, and in both 2005 and 2006, the JavaOne Outstanding Talk award. His largest audience was 15,000 at a JavaOne conference keynote.

Jason Rudolph - Author of Getting Started with Grails

Jason Rudolph is a Principal at Relevance, a leading consultancy and training organization specializing in Ruby, Rails, Groovy, and Grails, and integrating them into enterprise environments. Jason has more than nine years of experience in developing software solutions for domestic and international clients of all sizes, including start-ups, Dow 30 companies, and government organizations.

Jason is the author of the highly-praised book, Getting Started with Grails, and speaks frequently at software conferences and user groups. Jason also contributes regularly to the open source community, both as an early committer to Grails, and also as a committer to the Streamlined framework and numerous other Ruby and Rails projects.

Jason holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. You can find Jason online at http://jasonrudolph.com.

Jeff Brown - G2One Director Of North American Operations - Groovy and Grails Developer

Jeff Brown is the Director Of North American Operations for G2One and a member of the core Groovy and Grails development teams. For over 10 years Jeff has been involved in designing and building object oriented systems.

Jeff teaches a number of Java and object oriented training courses in addition to doing consulting and mentoring work for industries including Aerospace, Financial and Medical. Areas of expertise include Java, agile web development with Groovy and Grails, distributed computing, object database systems, object oriented analysis and design and agile development.

John Carnell - IT Architect w/Thrivent Financial

John Carnell is an IT architect for Thrivent Financial, a financial services company. In addition, John is a prolific speaker and writer. He has spoken at national conferences, such as Internet Expo, the Data Warehousing Institute, and numerous No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposiums.

John has authored, coauthored, and been a technical reviewer for a number of technical books and industry publications. His latest book, Pro Apache Struts with Ajax, was published in late 2006.

John Heintz - Principal Consultant with New Aspects of Software

John D. Heintz is a Principal Consultant with New Aspects of Software where he is responsible for finding clean solutions to complex business and technology problems.

In 12 years of professional work John has built many component and distributed systems, led agile teams, and mentored /trained on many technologies. John has deep experience with high-leverage technologies like Spring, JPA, Ruby, AOP, AJAX, REST/HTTP, and SOA systems.

Joseph Nusairat - Author of Beginning JBoss Seam & Co-Author of Beginning Groovy & Grails

Joseph Faisal Nusairat, author of "Beginning JBoss Seam" and co-author of the soon to be released "Beginning Groovy & Grails", is a Java developer who has been working full time in the Columbus Ohio area since 1998, primarily focused on Java development. His career has taken him into a variety of Fortune 500 industries including military applications, data centers, banking, internet security, pharmaceuticals, and insurance. Joseph is particularly fond of open source projects and tries to use as much open source software as possible when working with clients. Joseph is a graduate of Ohio University with dual degrees in Computer Science and Microbiology with a minor in Chemistry. Currently, Joseph works as a Senior Partner at Integrallis Software (www.integrallis.com). In his off-hours he enjoys watching bodybuilding and Broadway musicals, but not at the same time.

Ken Sipe - Technology Director, Perficient, Inc. (PRFT)

Ken Sipe is a Technology Director with Perficient, Inc. (PRFT), IBM's largest service partner, where he leads multiple teams in the development of solutions in the SOA, Web 2.0 and portal domains, on both the Java and .Net platforms.

Ken was the founder of CodeMentor, where he was the Chief Architect and Mentor, leading clients in the execution of RUP and Agile methodologies in the delivery of software solutions. He is a former trainer for Rational in OOAD and RUP, and a CORBA Visibroker trainer for Borland. He continues to enjoy providing training and mentoring in all aspects of software development.

Ken has a deep need to be highly diversified. Ken often works with IT executives on high-level strategic roadmaps, currently geared around service oriented architectures (SOA). Ken also likes to keep his hands "dirty" in the code, which has him on a regular basis, pairing or otherwise producing code. Ken is regularly requested by clients that know him to "rescue" projects, either through the streamlining of processes or the rapid production of code.

Ken is a certified JBoss developer and is a frequent participates on open source projects. Ken is currently interested in the growing maturity of SOA solutions in the open source space, such as the ESB solutions like ServiceMix and Mule, or rules engines such as JBossRules.

Kirk Knoernschild - Software Developer & Mentor

Kirk is an industry analyst at Burton Group. For 15 years, he has worked in the trenches on real software projects. He takes a keen interest in design, architecture, application development platforms, agile development, and the IT industry in general, especially as it relates to software development.

In 2002, Kirk wrote the book Java Design: Objects, UML, and Process, published by Addison-Wesley. He has also written numerous whitepapers and articles, including The Agile Developer column for The Agile Journal. Kirk is the founder of Extensible Java, a growing resource of component design pattern heuristics for Java that can easily be applied to most other platforms, including .Net. Kirk has trained thousands of software professionals, teaching courses on UML, Java J2EE technology, object-oriented development, component based development, software architecture, and software process. He enjoys hacking in a variety of languages, including Java, .Net, Ruby, and PHP.

Kito Mann - Kito D. Mann is editor-in-chief of JSF Central and the author of JSF in Action.

Kito D. Mann is editor-in-chief of JSF Central (www.jsfcentral.com) and the author of JavaServer Faces in Action (Manning). He is a member of several Java Community Process expert groups (including JSF and Portlets), and an internationally recognized speaker. Kito is also the Principal Consultant at Virtua, Inc., specializing in enterprise application architecture, training, development, mentoring, and JSF product strategy. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.

Mark Goodwin - Web Application Security Specialist

Mark Goodwin is a web applications security specialist at a major financial institution.

Over the years Mark has worked in systems administration as well as applications software development on variety of platforms from mobile handsets to mainframes. He now works in a team of application security specialists carrying out security testing, providing advice and training for software developers on security techniques and developing tools for security testing and events analysis. Mark is a Certified Ethical Hacker.

Mark Fisher - Spring Integration Lead

Mark Fisher is a Senior Software Engineer with SpringSource and lead of the Spring Integration product. As a core developer for the Spring Framework, he has played a central role in developing the annotation-based configuration features of Spring 2.5. He has also provided consulting and training services for clients across numerous industries throughout North America including several fortune 500 companies.

In addition to the "No Fluff, Just Stuff" symposium tour, Mark speaks regularly at conferences such as The Spring Experience and SpringOne. He has also presented at Java User Groups throughout the United States on various Spring-related topics.

Mark Johnson - Director of Consulting at CGI

Mark Johnson is currently Director of Consulting at CGI where he is exploring software development management approaches to leverage offshore and local development resources to deliver high quality applications on-time and budget in a highly competitive environment.

Mark Johnson has over 20 years of software development experience in industries including Healthcare, state government, and strategic sourcing. Mark most recently has spent the last 2 years working with Commonwealth of Massachusets EOHHS to develop the NewMMIS application. The NewMMIS application makes use of J2EE, Portal, and Web Services technologies designed to modernize the existing Medicaid processing. In addition, Mark is active in the software community as the President of the New England Java Users Group. When not working, Mark can be found riding his mountain bike on local trails and playing with his family.

Mark Richards - Executive IT Architect, IBM, Author of Java Transaction Design Strategies

Mark Richards is an Executive IT Architect at IBM, where he is involved in the architecture and design of large-scale Service Oriented Architectures in J2EE and other technologies, primarily in the financial services industry. He has been involved in the software industry since 1984, and has significant experience and expertise in J2EE architecture and development, Object-oriented design and development, and systems integration. Mark served as the President of the Boston Java User Group in 1997 and 1998, and the President of the New England Java Users Group from 1999 thru 2003. He is the author of "Java Transaction Design Strategies", contributing author of "NFJS Anthology Volume 1", contributing author of "NFJS Anthology Volume 2", and contributing author of the Java Coding Standards book produced by the Nejug. Mark is an IBM Certified Application Architect, Certified Master IT Architect (TOG), Sun Certified J2EE Business Component Developer, a Sun Certified J2EE Enterprise Architect, a Sun Certified Java Programmer, a BEA WebLogic Certified Developer, a Certified Java Instructor, and holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Boston University. He is a regular conference speaker at the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium Series and speaks at conferences and user groups around the country. When he is not working Mark can usually be found hiking with his wife and two daughters in the White Mountains or along the Appalachian Trail.

Mark Volkmann - Software Consultant and Partner at OCI

Mark Volkmann has been a software consultant for Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) in St. Louis since 1996. He has been developing software in Java since 1995.

Mark has created and teaches many courses in Java, XML and Ruby. They include: Introduction to Java, Java Syntax for Non-C Programmers, Java Programming, Advanced Java Programming, Creating Graphical User Interfaces Using Java (Swing), eXtensible Markup Language (XML), XML Programming Using Java and Web Services Using Java, and Ruby Programming.

Mark is a member of the St. Louis Java User Group steering committee and a regular presenter for that group. He has written for XML Journal. Mark has also presented at XML DevCon conferences, No Fluff Just Stuff Java symposiums
and the St. Louis Ruby User Group.

Matt Raible - Creator of AppFuse and author of Spring Live

Matt Raible resides in Denver, Colorado, where he runs Raible Designs, a consultancy that specializes in open source Java frameworks and Ajax development. Matt has been surrounded by computers for most of his life, even though he grew up without electricity in the backwoods of Montana.

Matt is an author (Spring Live, Pro JSP), active Java open-source contributor, and blogger on raibledesigns.com. He is the founder of AppFuse, a project which allows you to get started quickly with Java frameworks, as well as a committer on the Apache Roller project.

Matt's presentations can be downloaded from his website. Contact him if you can't find one of his presentations.

Michael Nygard - Agile technology leader and dynamicist

Michael strives to raise the bar and ease the pain for developers across the country. He shares his passion and energy for improvement with everyone he meets, sometimes even with their permission. Michael has spent the better part of 20 years learning what it means to be a professional programmer who cares about art, quality, and craft. He's always ready to spend time with other developers who are fully engaged and devoted to their work--the "wide awake" developers. On the flip side, he cannot abide apathy or wasted potential.

Michael has been a professional programmer and architect for nearly 20 years. During that time, he has delivered running systems to the U. S. Government, the military, banking, finance, agriculture, and retail industries. More often than not, Michael has lived with the systems he built. This experience with the real world of operations changed his views about software architecture and development forever.

He worked through the birth and infancy of a Tier 1 retail site and has often served as "roving troubleshooter" for other online businesses. These experiences give him a unique perspective on building software for high performance and high reliability in the face of an actively hostile environment.

Most recently, Michael wrote "Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software", a book that realizes many of his thoughts about building software that does more than just pass QA, it survives the real world. Michael previously wrote numerous articles and editorials, spoke at Comdex, and co-authored one of the early Java books.

Mike Levin - Software Developer specializing in Web2.0 websites

Mike is a software developer and small business owner (www.cambridgeweb.ie) specializing in Web2.0 websites and custom software development. Mike heads up the OrlandoJUG (www.orlandoJUG.org ), GatorJUG (www.gatorJUG.org), and just co-founded the (drumroll) West African Java User Group (www.senejug.com). He tech edited the new book "RSS and Atom in Action", by Dave Johnson www.manning.com/dmjohnson. He loves to blog (www.mikelevin.net) and also produces a popular podcast called Swampcast ( www.swampcast.com). You can reach him at mike at swampcast dot com.

Nathaniel Schutta - Author, speaker, software engineer focused on user interface design.

Nathaniel T. Schutta is a senior software engineer in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota with extensive experience developing Java Enterprise Editionbased Web applications. He graduated from St. Johns University (MN) with a degree in Computer Science and has a masters of science degree in software engineering from the University of Minnesota. For the last several years, he has focused on user interface design. A long-time member of the Association for Computing Machinerys Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group, Nathaniel believes that if the user cant figure out your application, then youve done something wrong. Along with his user interface work, Nathaniel is the cocreator of the open-source Taconite framework, has contributed to two corporate Java frameworks, has developed training material, and has led several study groups. During the brief moments of warm weather found in his home state of Minnesota, he spends as much time on the golf course as his wife will tolerate. Hes currently exploring Ruby, Rails, and (after recently making the switch) Mac OS X. Nathaniel is the coauthor of the bestselling book, Foundations of Ajax.

Neal Ford - Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, Inc.

Neal Ford is an Application Architect for ThoughtWorks. He is an architect, designer, and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, and video/DVD presentations. Neal is also the author of Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques (Prentice Hall PTR, 1996), JBuilder 3 Unleashed (SAMS Publishing, 1999), and Art of Java Web Development (Manning, 2003). His language proficiencies include Java, C#/.NET, Ruby, Object Pascal, C++, and C. Neals primary consulting focus is the design and construction of large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at over 30 developers conferences worldwide.

Pete Behrens - Organizational Agility Coach

Pete Behrens is the Founder and President of Trail Ridge Consulting, a firm specializing in enterprise-wide agile transitions and adoption. Their Organizational Agility Services align proven agile organizational patterns with enterprise-enabled agile practices to transform organizational ability to organizational agility.

Pete Behrens is a Certified Scrum Trainer and a Certified Scrum Coach. He has been guiding enterprise agile implementations for the past 6 years. Pete has over 17 years experience leading product development and architecture in adaptive, iterative and phased-based development methods for EDS and Rational Software. He led development of RequisitePro, the leading requirements management solution in the IBM Rational product line. He has extensive experience developing under the Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rapid Application Development (RAD), as well as traditional waterfall approaches. You can contact him at pete@trailridgeconsulting.com

Pramod Sadalage - Co-author of "Refactoring Databases:Evolutionary Database Development"

Pramod Sadalage is the co-author of the 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning
"Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Development", a Martin Fowler
signature series book and author of "Recipes for Continuous Database
Integration". Pramod works as a DBA and developer at ThoughtWorks. He works on
large custom-developed applications that use agile methodologies. While on these
projects, he pioneered the practices and processes of agility in the database.
Pramod writes and speaks about these concepts and practices to help those
interested in using agile practices on databases. He has written and presented
about database administration on XP projects, the adoption of agile processes
with databases, and the impact of agile practices on database administration and
design. Pramod is the owner and founder of the agiledatabases Yahoo! group; he
moderates group discussions and helps group members learn about agile databases.
When he is not working, you can find him spending time with his wife Rupali and
daughter Arula, and trying to improve his running.

Ramnivas Laddad - Author of AspectJ in Action, Principal at Interface21

Ramnivas Laddad is an Interface21 Principal. He has over a decade of experience in applying his enterprise Java and aspect-oriented programming (AOP) expertise to middleware, design automation, networking, web application, user interface, and security projects.

Ramnivas is a well-known expert in enterprise Java, especially in the area of AOP. He is the author of AspectJ in Action, the best-selling book on AOP and AspectJ. His book is highly recommended by leading industry experts for its practical and innovative applications of AOP solving a wide range of real-world problems. Ramnivas is also one of the industry's leading conference speakers, who has given over one hundred talks at conferences such as JavaOne, No Fluff Just Stuff, JavaPolis, and EclipseCon. Ramnivas hosts the Aspectivity blog, where he shares his thoughts on AOP and related topics. He is an active member of the AspectJ community and has been involved with AOP since its early form.

Ramnivas role at Interface21 includes working with the Spring community and Interface21 clients to help them leverage the power of AOP. He is currently involved in interesting work combining ideas in domain-driven design with AOP and DI. He is also working on creating reusable aspects to simplify development of typical Spring-based projects. His work at Interface21 is expected to drive major new innovations atop the Spring 2.0 platform.

Ramnivas lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Richard Monson-Haefel - VP of Developer Relations, Curl Inc.

Richard. Monson-Haefel is the author of five best-selling editions of Enterprise JavaBeans (O'Reilly), J2EE Web Services (Addison-Wesley), and the coauthor of Java Message Service (O'Reilly). He served on the JCP Executive Committee, which oversees the JSRs (specifications) developed for the J2SE and J2EE platforms. He also served on the Groovy (JSR-241), J2EE 1.4 (JSR-151), EJB 2.1 (JSR-153) and EJB 3.0 (JSR 220) expert groups for the Java Community Process. Richard was a founder of the Apache J2EE Application Server Project (Geronimo) and the OpenEJB project - an open source EJB container. Richard was a Sr. Analyst for Burton Group covering open source, Java EE, RIA/Ajax, mobile development, and other topics for 4 years. Today, Richard is the Vice President of Developer Relations at Curl, Inc.

Romain Guy - Java User Interface expert.

Romain Guy is a French student who worked for one year among the Swing Team at Sun Microsystems. He has 7 years of experience in Java development, as an Open Source and freelance developer. He also worked as a freelance journalist for a French computing magazine, as a translator for O'Reilly and taught Java in a University. Today Romain focuses on UI design and humane interaction, especially in the Desktop Java field.

Roman Hustad - Principal Software Security Consultant

Roman is a Principal Software Security Consultant at Foundstone, a small division of McAfee that provides security assessment, training, and software design services to corporate and government organizations around the world. After spending most of his life building software, now he figures out ways to break it through penetration testing, threat modeling, and code review. On the proactive side, he leads software design sessions, teaches Java security courses, and participates in the Hacme Books open-source project. In his ever-dwindling spare time Roman enjoys mountaineering, scuba diving, and other outdoor pursuits.

Ron Bodkin - Chief Software Architect, Quantcast

Ron Bodkin is the chief software architect of Quantcast, an open ratings service for Web sites. Ron is also the founder of New Aspects of Software, which provides consulting and training on aspect-oriented software development and effective architectures for Java. Ron is also the leader of the open source Glassbox application performance troubleshooting project.

Previously, Ron led the first implementation projects and training efforts for customers of the AspectJ group at Xerox PARC. Prior to that, Ron was a founder and the CTO of C-bridge, a consultancy that delivered enterprise applications using Java frameworks.

Ryan Shriver - Business and Technology Consulting

Ryan Shriver is a Managing Consultant with Dominion Digital, a Virginia-based Business & Technology Consulting firm where he's a leader in their Agile practice (dominiondigital.com/agile). He helps organizations and teams transition to Agile ways of thinking about solving problems, ranging from new product lines to operational performance improvements. Ryan's solutions typically use some combination of people, process and technology to deliver measurable results.

With a deep background in software architecture and enterprise Java, Ryan understands the challenges and issues facing development teams to deliver predictable results. His approach to getting senior leaders to define measurable objectives and priorities for their organizations, projects and development teams helps bring focus to the highest priority initiatives. Using agile methods like Scrum, Ryan helps teams iteratively deliver value quickly to the business...often in a matter of weeks.

Ryan's experiences with diverse companies and teams are the basis for his presentations on Agile subjects.

Scott Davis - Author of "Groovy Recipes" & TDD Expert

Scott Davis is an internationally recognized author and speaker. He is passionate about open source solutions and agile development. He has worked on a variety of Java platforms, from J2EE to J2SE to J2ME (sometimes all on the same project).

Scott's books include Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java, GIS for Web Developers: Adding Where to Your Web Applications, The Google Maps API, and JBoss At Work.

Scott is the Editor in Chief of aboutGroovy.com, a news and information website that tracks the latest developments in Groovy and Grails. He also writes a regular column for IBM DeveloperWorks -- Mastering Grails.

Scott is a frequent presenter at national conferences (such as No Fluff, Just Stuff) and local user groups. He was the president of the Denver Java Users Group in 2003 when it was voted one of the top-ten JUGs in North America. After a quick move north, he is currently active in the leadership of the Boulder Java Users Group. Keep up with him at http://www.davisworld.org.

Scott Leberknight - Chief Architect at Near Infinity

Scott is Chief Architect at Near Infinity Corporation, an enterprise software development, training, and consulting services company based in Reston, Virginia. He has been developing enterprise and web applications for 13 years professionally, and has developed web applications using Java, Ruby/Rails, Groovy/Grails and a smidgeon of Python. His main areas of interest include object-oriented design, system architecture, testing, and frameworks of all types including Spring, Hibernate, Ruby on Rails, Grails, and Django. In addition, Scott enjoys learning new languages to make himself a better and more well-rounded developer a la The Pragmatic Programmers' advice to "learn one language per year."

Scott holds a B.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and an M. Eng. in Systems Engineering from the University of Maryland. Scott speaks at the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposiums and various other conferences. In his (sparse) spare time, Scott enjoys spending time with his wife, two daughters, and two cats. He also tries to find time to play soccer, go snowboarding, and mountain bike whenever he can.

Stuart Halloway - CEO of Relevance

Stuart Halloway is the CEO of Relevance, Inc. (www.thinkrelevance.com). With co-founder Justin Gehtland, Stuart helps enterprises adopt emerging best practices such as Ruby on Rails. Justin and Stuart founded the Streamlined Framework (www.streamlinedframework.org), and authored Rails for Java Developers. Stuart is also the author of Component Development for the Java Platform. Prior to founding Relevance, Stuart was the Chief Architect at Near-Time, and the Chief Technical Officer at DevelopMentor.

Ted Neward - Enterprise, Virtual Machine and Language Wonk

Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 20-person shops. He speaks on the conference circuit, including the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium tour, discussing Java, .NET and XML service technologies, focusing on Java-.NET interoperability. He has written several widely-recognized books in both the Java and .NET space, including the recently-released "Effective Enterprise Java". He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two sons, four video-game consoles, thousands of books (on programming and otherwise), and eight PCs.

Tom Marrs - Author of JBoss at Work and Principal Architect CIBER

Tom Marrs is a Principal Architect with CIBER, where he specializes in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), JavaEE, Open Source, and AJAX/Web 2.0. He designs and implements mission-critical business applications using the latest technologies, leads technical teams, and trains and mentors other developers.

Tom is the co-author of JBoss At Work: A Practical Guide (O?Reilly, 10/2005), speaks regularly at software conferences, and reviews best-selling technical books for major publishers. An active participant in the local technical community, Tom founded the Denver Open Source Users Group (http://www.denveropensource.org) and has served as President of the Denver Java Users Group (http://www.denverjug.org).

Venkat Subramaniam - Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects, and speaks frequently at international conferences and user groups. He is author of ".NET Gotchas" (O'Reilly), coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning "Practices of an Agile Developer" (Pragmatic Bookshelf), and author of "Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer" (Pragmatic Bookshelf).

Mark Kirby - Sr. Java Architect

Mark Kirby is an instructor/consultant with Intertech, Inc. (www.intertech.com). He has presented on core Java technologies as well as XML, Struts, and XPath. He has fifteen years of software development experience including experience as a technical architect at Target Corporation. In addition to his technical architecture experience at Target, he has led project teams of 40+ people and was the lead of an EAI and architecture consulting group. Prior to Target Corporation, Mr. Kirby worked with Bell Atlantic and the United States Army.

Pratik Patel - Software Architect

Pratik Patel wrote the first book on 'enterprise Java' in 1996, "Java Database Programming with JDBC." He has also spoken at various conferences such as the Net Database Summit and WWW7.

Pratik's specialty is in large-scale Java applications for mission-critical use. He has designed and built enterprise applications in the retail, health care, financial services, and telecoms sectors. Pratik holds a master's in Biomedical Engineering from UNC, has worked in places such as New York, London, and Hong Kong, and currently lives in Atlanta, GA.

Vladimir Vivien - Software Engineer / Consultant

Vladimir Vivien is a software engineering living in Tampa, FL (US) currently working in the healthcare industry. Past and current experiences include development in Java and C#.Net for industries including publishing, finacial, and heathcare.

Vladimir's interests include JMX, OSGi, Rich-Client technologies such as XUL and OpenLaszlo, and dynamic languages including Groovy, Python, JavaScript. He thinks the future direction of the Java language is hidden in Groovy.

Contact: vmatters @ gmail dot com.