AGENDA
6:00 - 6:30 PM - Food, Drinks & Networking
6:30 - 6:40 PM - Announcements
6:40 - 7:10 PM - Basic Concepts
7:10 - 7:20 PM - Break
7:20 - 8:40 PM - Main Speaker
8:40 - 8:55 PM - Door Prize Drawings
MAIN TOPIC ABSTRACT
The first item in the Agile Manifesto reads that we must prefer "people and interaction over process and tools." Given a choice between average people with superior tools and superior people with average tools, you are likely to achieve greater success with the latter. However, it is important to be continuous and not be episodic, so you want to get continuous feedback about the state, health, and quality of your code and application. Tools can help us a great deal to realize this and make us productive. In this presentation we will take a look at tools (and their relevance and value) that can help smoothly execute your projects.
MAIN SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam
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. He is a frequent invited speaker at international software conferences and user groups. He's the author of .NET Gotchas (O'Reilly), coauthor of the 2007 Jolt Productivity award-winning book Practices of an Agile Developer (Pragmatic Bookshelf), and author of Programming Groovy (Pragmatic Bookshelf).
BASIC CONCEPTS ABSTRACT
As the demand and availability for distributed systems increase, the infrastructure technology required to support them has become more complex. Increased complexity requires higher maintenance costs and causes more frequent failures. Distributed systems fail largely because mechanisms needed to dynamically provision, scale, react to failure and meet service level objectives are not designed into the fabric upon which distributed systems are built. The Assimilator project hosted at SourceForge offers an initial response to these realities by providing a dynamic adaptive network architecture. Intrinsic to the implementation of the architecture are a set of dynamic capabilities, policy-based and Quality of Service mechanisms which are applied automatically to services deployed in the fabric. The basics components of Assimilator and how services are built and deployed using it will be discussed.
BASIC CONCEPTS SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Kevin Hartig
Value-driven professional with 25 years of experience in software product development, application of project development methodologies and leadership in the computer industry. Kevin Hartig has excelled in guiding teams of developers, architects and managers as Principal Engineer, Director of Software Development, CTO and Consultant providing solutions that deliver the greatest technical and business value. Kevin has consulted on a wide range of projects at Fortune 100 companies and is currently employed as a Chief Architect and Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
OUR SPONSORS
Website Sponsor:
ACN- Local, Long Distance, Digital, & Cellular Phone Service
Food Sponsor:
Comsys will provide food and drink
Door Prize Sponsors:
Jetbrains will provide a free IntelliJ personal ide license
SourceBeat Publishing will provide one free PDF technical book
Atlassian will provide a free technical book plus some t-shirts
OReilly Publishing will provide a free technical book
Comsys will provide additional door prizes
ACN will provide a 2GB Thumb Drive
“ Holy cow, that was awesome. I got a a HUGE amount of information from the topics. I didn't know anything like those open source tools existed. ”
“ The educational presentations were great, especially the demonstrations. ”
Robin (+1 guest)“ Excellent speakers talked about some very interesting topics. ”
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