Track: Lightning Talks & Interviews
Every session sonsists of 2 or 3 short sessions.
Thursday
How to create a Product Backlog
This lightning talk will give answers to the following questions:
* What is a Product backlog?
* Who owns the Product backlog?
* Where do the input come from?
* What format should the items of a Product backlog have?
Arne Åhlander
Arne Åhlander is a Senior Consultant using Agile and Lean methodologies to improve product development and management for small and large software organizations.
Arne has 15 years of experience from the software industry, to a great part in the area of product management where he have held several senior positions. Arne is a Certified Scrum Trainer. He has managed Scrum projects, coached customers to start and improve Scrum initatives, and teached a multitude of different Scrum classes.
Protecting .NET Code
This interactive presentation will review the inherent weaknesses of .NET intermediate code in regards to exposure of intellectual property and then explain the strengths and weaknesses of the security solutions available today for combating these risks. As part of this presentation, attendees will enjoy live, interactive demonstrations and open Q&A.
Oren Bear
Oren Bear, CISSP, is the Lead Data Security Engineer for the Software Rights Management Business Unit at SafeNet, Inc. He is responsible for security intelligence, threat analysis and response, and has contributed to the design of SafeNet's award winning HASP SRM software protection and licensing solution. For nearly a decade, he has researched a variety of security solutions and supported a range of software developers in implementing custom protection for their products.
Scott Hanselman - Effective Developer
Scott Hanselman, Microsoft, is interviewed by Nitin Bharti, DZone, on the topic Effective Developer
DZone
DZone delivers “fresh links for developers.” According to PC Magazine, “DZone is a developer’s dream-a vast network of user-submitted links to message boards, news, coding tricks, and more” Launched in June, 2006, DZone is closing in on a spot in Alexa’s top 5000 sites, surpassing established leaders like DevX, Sys-con, FTP Online and TheServerSide.com. DZone is the only vertically focused site regularly listed among the web’s largest social bookmarking sites.
Scott Hanselman
Scott Hanselman works out of his home office for Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager, aiming to spread good information about developing software, usually on the Microsoft stack. Before this he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6 years. He was also involved in a few Microsoft things for many years like the MVP and RD programs and will speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen.
Cameron Purdy - Effective Developer
Cameron Purdy, Oracle, is interviewed by Nitin Bharti, DZone, on the topic Effective Developer
DZone
DZone delivers “fresh links for developers.” According to PC Magazine, “DZone is a developer’s dream-a vast network of user-submitted links to message boards, news, coding tricks, and more” Launched in June, 2006, DZone is closing in on a spot in Alexa’s top 5000 sites, surpassing established leaders like DevX, Sys-con, FTP Online and TheServerSide.com. DZone is the only vertically focused site regularly listed among the web’s largest social bookmarking sites.
Cameron Purdy
Cameron Purdy is Vice President of Development at Oracle. Prior to joining Oracle, he was the CEO of Tangosol, whose revolutionary Coherence Data Grid product provides reliable and scalable data management across the enterprise. As a software visionary and industry leader, he has received a number of awards in recognition of his contribution to the Java community, including twice being named as a JavaOne RockStar and being recognized in TheServerSide’s “Who’s Who in Enterprise Java”.
Selenium - an open source tool for testing your web applications
I will show the participants how to a test web applications using Selenium.
Selenium is an open source tool that will test a web site through a browser and therefore is perfect for testing web sites that need to support many different browser on different operating systems.
The tests are normal JUnit tests that will drive a browser and fail if the test fails and pass if the test passes.
Thomas Sundberg
Thomas Sundberg is a consultant at Agical AB in Stockholm, Sweden. He has a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, in Stockholm. He has been working as a Java developer the last ten years. His first experience with test driven development was with JUnit the autumn of 2000. He has also worked as a lecturer at KTH teaching programming courses. Thomas has set up and maintained Continuous Integration systems since 2004.
Getting started with Maven
Javid will walk you through the generation of a basic project using Maven goals, then he will examine the generated directory structure and contents of the project. He'll then explain how to run the two types of Apache Maven commands: goals and lifecycle phase commands. After this talk you’ll have a basic understanding of how goals and plugins are related. You’ll also learn about the different lifecycles and lifecycle phases in Maven and how to execute and use them.
Javid Jamae
Javid is a programmer and author of the book JBoss in Action. When he’s not cranking out code, he teaches and writes about the Agile value system and methodologies. Javid is currently working in Houston, TX - USA.
Maven Dependency and Repository Basics
Javid will teach you how Maven coordinates are defined for an artifact in the Project Object Model (POM) file. Then he'll show you how to reference a dependent artifact using the coordinate system. He'll go over local and remote repositories and how they interact. He'll also teach you how artifacts are installed into the local repository and play around on the command line to see all of these features in action.
Javid Jamae
Javid is a programmer and author of the book JBoss in Action. When he’s not cranking out code, he teaches and writes about the Agile value system and methodologies. Javid is currently working in Houston, TX - USA.
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock - Effective Architecture
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock is interviewed by Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell from .NET Rocks on the topic Effective Architecture
.NET Rocks
.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, IEEE Software's Design Columnist, is a well-known, respected object practitioner. She invented the way of thinking about objects known as Responsibility-Driven Design and is lead author of Object Design and Designing Object-Oriented Software. Through her writing, consulting, and speaking she popularizes the use of informal techniques and thinking tools. She mentors teams on design, object modeling, architecture, and managing complexity. She practices what she teaches!
Neal Ford - Effective Architecture
Neal Ford, ThoughtWorks, is interviewed by Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell from .NET Rocks on the topic Effective Architecture
.NET Rocks
.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.
Neal Ford
Neal Ford is Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is also the designer and developer of applications, magazine articles, presentations, and author and/or editor of 6 books spanning a variety of technologies, including the most recent The Productive Programmer. He focuses on designing and building of large-scale enterprise applications.
Building Rich Applications with Griffon
Discover Griffon, a Grails-like framework for Rich Internet Applications that will make you rethink how Swing applications can be developed. It’s no secret that web applications have taken the spotlight over the last years, RIAs are now being pushed forward as an alternative for better user experience, when it comes to Java there are some challenges that have to be met like deployment targets, proper thread management and of course testing. Griffon simplifies those tasks and offers much more.
Andres Almiray
Andres is a Java/Groovy developer with mode than 10 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application development since the early days of Java. He is a true believer in open source and has participated on popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member of the Griffon framework. Andres maintains a blog at http://jroller.com/aalmiray
Jeneabean: if you know java beans you can read and write RDF
Jenabean (http://jenabean.googlecode.com) makes reading and writing RDF from java simple. It is backed by Jena, HP's full featured open source semantic web framework for Java. It provides a bean based programming model, as well as a polymorphic interface driven approach that hides the complexities of Jena programming. In the last 5 minutes we'll code a simple app that saves, retreives, and queries for entities usnig jenabean.
Taylor Cowan
Taylor Cowan is a software architect at Travelocity. He received his Masters Degree in Computer Science from the University of North Texas, as well as a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Arranging. Throughout his career he has been working with Java in the context of the world wide web and more recently the semantic web. He is a founder and committer to the open source project jenabean, a Java to RDF binding framework, and maintains the semantic web focused blog at thewebsemantic.com.
JDK 7 and Project Coin
Project Coin aims to first determine what set of small language changes should be added to JDK 7 and then to incorporate those changes into the Java platform. This short talk will glance over which changes that will be included in the next release of Java and some that won’t.
Mattias Karlsson
Mattias spends most of his time working with software development in the financial sector as well as leading a Java User Group in Stockholm, Sweden. Throughout the years, he gained experience from many different roles such as: developer, architect, team leader, coach, manager and teacher. In these roles he receives consistent feedback about his ability to inspire and motivate people which he works with. Mattias is responsible for the internal Java Competence Center at CIBER Sweden.
Windows Azure: The Value of Cloud Computing from a Developer Perspective
The Windows Azure platform and Cloud Computing will present exciting new opportunities for developers. Azure can replace the traditional application hosting architecture with an elastic and scalable platform for web and service based applications. How should developers take advantage of those opportunities? What does Cloud Computing have to offer? What’s in it for us?
Alan Smith
Alan has worked as a developer with Microsoft technologies since 1995. Since 2003 he has been focusing on Connected Systems technologies, including BizTalk Server, WCF/WF, Oslo and Dublin. He currently works for KnowIT Consulting in Stockholm. He is an active speaker and hosts the website BloggersGuides.net where he regularly publishes webcasts and other learning resources. He has been awarded the Microsoft MVP status five times, 4 for BizTalk Server and 1for Connected Systems Developer.
Open Cloud Manifesto – The good, the bad and the ugly
This talk will explain what the open cloud manifesto is all about and discuss the different parts. The parts will be subject to a quick analysis and labeled as good, really bad or kind of ugly.
Herbjörn Wilhelmsen
Herbjörn works as a consultant at Forefront Consulting Group in Stockholm and specializes in SOA and Business Architecture. He has been working as a developer, development manager, architect and teacher with customers in several fields of operations. He leads the “Business to IT” group in the Swedish chapter of IASA. Herbjörn holds a B.Sc. from Stockholm University, and is active as a book author in the Prentice Hall Service Oriented Computing series.
