Greater Wisconsin Software Symposium
February 24 - 25, 2012 - Madison, WI
Peter Bell
Evangelist/hacker for hackNY
Peter is an evangelist and hacker for hackNY - a not-for-profit that aims to federate the next generation of hackers for the New York innovation community.
Peter is a regular presenter at national and international conferences on ruby, nodejs, NoSQL (especially MongoDB and neo4j), cloud computing, software craftsmanship, java, groovy, javascript, and requirements and estimating. He is on the program committee for Code Generation in Cambridge, England and the Domain Specific Modeling workshop at SPLASH (was ooPSLA) and reviews and shepherds proposals for the BCS SPA conference.
He has presented at a range of conferences including DLD conference, ooPSLA, RubyNation, SpringOne2GX, Code Generation, Practical Product Lines, the British Computer Society Software Practices Advancement conference, DevNexus, cf.Objective(), CF United, Scotch on the Rocks, WebDU, WebManiacs, UberConf, the Rich Web Experience and the No Fluff Just Stuff Enterprise Java tour.
He has been published in IEEE Software, Dr. Dobbs, IBM developerWorks, Information Week, Methods & Tools, Mashed Code, NFJS the Magazine and GroovyMag. He's currently writing a book on managing software development for Pearson.
He is an organizer of the CTO School http://www.ctoschool.org - an organization in NYC devoted to creating the next generation of technical leaders. He also organizes the node.js meetup in New York and co-organizes the Domain Driven Design and Grails meetups.
He is a regular instructor at General Assembly in New York. His presentations cover managing software development, NoSQL, mobile development, Javascript development, Twitter Bootstrap and Javascript frameworks.
He tweets regularly as @peterbell.
Presentations
Getting Started with Neo4j
Learn how to add Neo4j to your projects to add social, recommendation and other graph based capabilities to your applications.
We'll start by introducing the strengths, weaknesses and common use cases for neo4j. We'll then look at how to write effective graph based queries - directly or using Spring Data.
NoSQL data modeling with Mongo and Neo4j
With NoSQL data stores you need to completely rethink how to model your data.
In this session we'll look at the very different approaches to data modeling required for MongoDB and Neo4j.
Practical Technology Selection and Adoption
What's the point attending a conference unless you do something with the knowledge you gain?
In this session we look at practical strategies for selecting new technologies and proven approaches for driving adoption back at the office.
The Lean Startup - for Enterprise Software Developers
Intuit and even the US government want to be "lean startups".
Learn how businesses of any size can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their software development processes using lean startup principles like Minimum Viable Product, Validated Learning and Metrics Driven Development.
Professional Javascript development for the Java developer
Like it or not, with application servers like node.js and increasingly rich client MVC frameworks like backbone.js, Javascript is in your future.
In this session we'll look deeply at the fundamental strengths and weaknesses of the language and how to become a javascript professional. We'll include information on using Jasmine for testing your Javascript.
