Agile:MK December - Paul Grenyer: All you need is Java*

In a world where .Net, PHP and nodejs are also major players, all you really need is Java, JavaScript and the JVM.

In this session Paul will explore why he believes Java* should be your default choice for new project development, from the languages themselves and how they can work seamlessly together, to the tool chains which lend themselves naturally to agile development practices and on to the plethora of infrastructure options.

Of course Java* has its drawbacks too and he’ll look at a few of those and how some can be overcome.

Paul is the CEO at Naked Element and a founder and organiser of Norfolk Developers (nor(DEV):) and founder and one time organiser of SyncNorwich. Paul has been working in the software industry for nearly 20 years and has 15 years of programming experience prior to that.

Having worked with all sorts of companies from small startups and SMEs to global investment banks and insurers, Paul has seen many different types of software developed in every way you can imagine, some which worked and some which didn’t.

Paul is also the chair of nor(DEV):con, the biggest software development conference in the East of England.