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Alex Miller
Sr. Engineer with Terracotta Inc.
Just a small plug for a nice paper by my favorite CS prof Ronald Loui called “In Pra more»
- Richard Monson-Haefel VP of Developer Relations, Curl Inc.
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Michael Nygard
Agile technology leader and dynamicist
O'Reilly is creating a new line of "community-authored" books. One of them is called "97 Thing Every Software Architect Should... more»
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Ted Neward
Enterprise, Virtual Machine and Language Wonk
For those of you who were at the Cinncinnati NFJS show, please continue on to the next blog entry in your reader--you've already heard this.... more»
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Jared Richardson
Agile coach and co-author of Ship It
Last week I was talking with a friend about a common ailment on development teams today. And it seems to be getting worse. Perhaps you've more»
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Scott Leberknight
Chief Architect at Near Infinity
With all the hype this year about cloud computing and things like Amazon EC2/S3 as well as Google App Engine and Bigtable, you can feel it... more»
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Jason Rudolph
Author of Getting Started with Grails
As we’ve seen over the last several weeks, it’s remarkably easy for code to earn the badge of 100% more»
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Kenneth Kousen
President of Kousen IT, Inc.
In September, I’m very happy to be giving a couple of presentations at the more»
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Stuart Halloway
CEO of Relevance
This is Part Two of a series of articles on Java.next. In Part Two, I will look at how Java.next languages interoperate with Java. more»
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Howard Lewis Ship
Creator of Tapestry and HiveMind
According to Neal Gafter, the story for closures i more»
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Erik Doernenburg
Principal Consultant @ Thoughtworks
The Spring framework has become ubiquitous in the Java world, and there are a large number of to more»
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Neal Ford
Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, Inc.
It came to my attention recently that I had made a bad assumption about the Prod uctive Programmer book. My under more»
- Mike Levin Software Developer specializing in Web2.0 websites
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Matt Raible
Creator of AppFuse and author of Spring Live
The EhCache project appears to be having a very busy summer. EhCache 1.5.0 (a major new version) was rele more»
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Pratik Patel
Enterprise Architect
In preparation for my upcoming No Fluff Just Stuff session in more»
- Ryan Shriver Business and Technology Consulting
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Mark Johnson
Director of Consulting at CGI
At the Columbus NFJS show held on July 25-27th during one of the BOF sessions Dave Bock, Scott Davis and I discussed unit tests vs functional... more»
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Craig Walls
Author of Spring in Action
Just a short blog entry for today to let you know that I'll be speaking at the JavaM UG meeting in Dallas a wee more»
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Joseph Nusairat
Author of Beginning JBoss Seam & Co-Author of Beginning Groovy & Grails
Well i am assuming Apress has the most random site in the world at times.But today only they have our recent book, Beginning Groovy & Grai more»
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Venkat Subramaniam
Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.
I received a copy of "Beginning Groovy and Grails?From Novice to Professional" book by Apress written by more»
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Andrew Glover
Co-author of "Continuous Integration"
Web Component Testing Screencast- my friend Rod Coffin demonstrates some interesting aspects re more»
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Jeff Brown
G2One Director Of North American Operations - Groovy and Grails Developer
We are really excited to have a 3 day Groovy/Grails training event coming up in Chicago later this month. The training dates are August... more»
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Brian Pontarelli
Brian Pontarelli - founder of Inversoft
I went to the 37 Signals event last night sponsored by CPB. The speake more»
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Graeme Rocher
Project Lead of the Grails Project & CTO of G2One
I'll be giving a talk on the state of Grails at the London Groovy+Grails user group meeting on the 31st of July. more»
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Nathaniel Schutta
Author, speaker, software engineer focused on user interface design.
I remember the first time I flew for business - I was working for a small consulting company and I was heading to Chicago for a few days of... more»
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Keith Donald
Lead of Spring Web and Creator of Spring Web Flow
I am pleased to announce that Developing Rich Web Applications with Spring, a three-day bootcamp lead by SpringSource engineers on web... more»
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Pramod Sadalage
Co-author of "Refactoring Databases:Evolutionary Database Development"
When creating a Foreign Key constraint on the database as shown below ALTER TABLE BOOK ADD (CONSTRAINT FK_BOOK_ more»
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Vladimir Vivien
Software Engineer / Consultant
Judging from the list of features that will be included in NetBeans 6.5, more»
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David Bock
Principal Consultant, CodeSherpas Inc.
I just spent this weekend speaking at the Ag ile IT Exchange conference i more»
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Kirk Knoernschild
Software Developer & Mentor
I’ve published a summary of the OSGi survey results on the APS blog more»
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Brian Goetz
Author of Java Concurrency in Practice
This surprised the heck out of me. We recently finished a new TV room down in the basement. We have a 50″ plasma TV, mounted on the... more»
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Jason Harwig
Senior Software Engineer at Near Infinity
I was reading a blog entry at more»
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Pete Behrens
Organizational Agility Coach
Marti nig & Associates Methods & Tools group recentl more»
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John Heintz
Principal Consultant with New Aspects of Software
This post is to mostly keep track of the numerous blog threads going on about IDLs and schemas for REST. I find myself with more to say that... more»
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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»
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Mark Fisher
Spring Integration Lead
In my recent post, I had mentio more»
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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»
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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»
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Scott Davis
Author of "Groovy Recipes" & TDD Expert
Every time I see a live show at the Denver Botanic more»
- Romain Guy Java User Interface expert.
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Ramnivas Laddad
Author of AspectJ in Action, Principal at SpringSource
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»
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David Geary
Author of Graphic Java and co-author of Core JSF
The 2006 NFJS tour kicked off t more»
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Kito Mann
Editor-in-chief of JSF Central and the author of JSF in Action
This podcast is an interview between JSFCentral editor-in-chief Kito D. Mann and Dan Allen, an independent software consultant, author, and... more»
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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»
2008 NFJS Symposium Tour
156 symposiums and 24,850 attendees since 2002
Come learn from industry experts and from each other, see real world case studies, and delve into hands-on code examples. No marketing fluff will be found here. Find an upcoming symposium near you and find out more about sessions, keynote addresses, networking opportunities, and lots more stuff...
Tour Schedule
| Orlando, Florida | Aug. 22 - 24 |
| Boston, Massachusetts | Sep. 12 - 14 |
| Seattle, Washington | Sep. 19 - 21 |
| Calgary, Alberta | Sep. 26 - 28 |
| Minneapolis, Minnesota | Oct. 10 - 12 |
| Toronto, Ontario | Oct. 17 - 19 |
| St. Louis, Missouri | Oct. 17 - 19 |
| Atlanta, Georgia | Oct. 24 - 26 |
| Reston, Virginia | Nov. 7 - 9 |
| Denver, Colorado | Nov. 14 - 16 |
| Chicago, Illinois | Nov. 21 - 23 |
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Training Schedule
| Grails Training with Jeff Brown | August 26 - 28, 2008 | Chicago, IL |
| Grails Training with Scott Davis | October 8 - 10, 2008 | Columbus, OH |
Listen to NFJS Podcasts
Jay Zimmerman on Java application development in '08
Agile Fireside Chat with Pete Behrens
Pete Behrens speaks with Lisa Haneberg, author of Focus Like a Laser Beam and Two Weeks to a Breakthrough about agile methods and how they apply in a management and organizational development context.
The AJAX experience
The first time Google maps allowed you to click and drag a web page, everything changed. NFJS speaker Nathaniel Schutta talks to us about AJAX: the technology that has changed the look and feel of web pages in the last few years. He couldn't say it any more plainly. If Schutta visits a web site that is not Ajaxified, he questions whether he should be doing business with that company.
NFJS Blogs
Java.next: Common Ground
This is Part One of a series of articles on Java.next. In Part One, I will explore the common ground shared by the Java.next languages.
I have chosen four languages which together represent "Java.next": Clojure, Groovy, JRuby, and Scala. At first glance, these languages are wildly different. Clojure is a Lisp. Groovy is the "almost Java" choice. JRuby has the beauty of Ruby, and the mindshare of Rails. Scala, unlike the others, brings the notion that we need... more »
Beginning Groovy & Grails on Sale today only!!
Well i am assuming Apress has the most random site in the world at times.But today only they have our recent book, Beginning Groovy & Grails for $10 (ebook)Click here - http://www.apress.com/info/dailydealIf you want to purchase it i suggest going before midnight tonight.
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Thoughts on Agile 2008
I?m sitting in the Toronto airport on the way home, wrapping up the week at Agile 2008. I?m leaving a day early so I won?t see Thursday afternoon or Friday morning sessions, but I did see enough to form some opinions on the state of Agile:Is Bigger Better? - I heard there were 1,525 people registered for the conference and it sure seemed like it. What a big conference. The agile community continues to grow and become more mainstream, but I?m not so sure this is a good thing.... more »
Reviews
New England Software Symposium April 4 - 6, 2008Going to NFJS was well worth the investment in myself! My only regret is that I couldn't attend more sessions as there wasn't one single time slot all weekend which didn't contain at least one session of interest, and many times I had to make painful choices between two or three different sessions I wanted to attend.
The format of NFJS is much more intimate due to the smaller size than some of the mondo-sized conferences I've been to in the past. The pace was also much more intense than I thought it might be, which completely eliminated any temptation to snooze. The content really is focussed and presented in an organized way which allows people to soak in a lot of material in a relatively short amount of time. I highly recommend NFJS!
If you're in the Agile Java space (or even if you're just in the Agile space) and you're not attending No Fluff Just Stuff shows, you're doing yourself and your employer a great disservice. The New England Software Symposium was by far the best learning experience that I've had in my career. I took home more that I can immediately apply to my job today than from any other show that I've attended. You cannot find this quality at this price ANYWHERE ELSE! And if I were a betting man, I'd almost wager that you cannot find this quality at any price anywhere else. Kudos to Jay Zimmerman, speakers, and company for putting on an awesome experience. Just like today's dynamic languages, low on ceremony, high on essence.
I really want to all the speakers and organizers for putting such kind of training. This was my first NFJS training and it was really awesome. I had been to javaone but somehow I was lost in the crowd. This one is really small group of people, great topics, and good price too.
Great as always! I was able to use the talks i attended on Groovy/Grails immediately! I've worked up a prototype, which i will present at the office. I was able to get a demo up and working in short order from using the slides from the conference.
Very well organized and good venue. Since I'm contracting now, I had to pay for it on my own dime. Well worth the money and only missed one day of work. Hotel was reasonable as well.
Patti Richards
My 3rd time attending a NFJS Symposium was every bit as good as I had hoped. I came away with many new ideas and have a long list of technologies to explore further. I will be back next year, and continue to recommend NFJS to my peers.
Thanks.
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Jay,
Congratulations on putting together another great conference. This was my 2nd. There's no doubt that your speakers are incredible. I wanted to leave with some feel for the pulse of the industry, and that's exactly what I got. I now can set my sights on picking up some new skills such as Groovy. Speakers like Brian Sletten and Ted Neward left me feeling inspired and even have an open source project idea that I plan to explore.
Thanks so much and continued success!
Kurt
It was a good experience where we get good pointers to see where the technology is moving towards. I specially liked presentations by Neal Ford , Brian Goetz and Scott Davis.
The skinny:
-- A no-brainer if your company will pay, or if you've never been. If it's your own $, it's a personal decision but IMHO it's quality stuff and a good value. This was #6 for me (several were paid by employers).
-- Someone below mentioned Terracotta: Alex Miller was there with an excellent talk on Terracotta and Hibernate.
-- The legendary Dave T has set a high bar for keynotes. In March, Scott Davis matched it. Did Ted Neward deliver the goods? (Hint: yes).
More details (and pics) at
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As always there's always 2 sessions that I want to attend for the same timeslot but I have never been disappointed attending one of these. I would like to see a session on Terracotta in the future.
I have blogged a review of the Norrthern Virginia Software Symposium at:
http://www.jmenard.com/blog/2007/04/30/ no_fluff_just_stuff_2007_recap_of_the_northern_virginia_software_symposium.html
I've attended NFJS for 5 years now. This one was very good. I'll be back.
The ultra-skinny:
-- The JVM may be the platform of the future for more than just Java: meet Groovy and JRuby.
-- The plot thickens with respect to web frameworks, and yet the right choice is still not obvious.
-- Can there be a NFJS without Dave Thomas? (answer: yes)
For a much longer review/insights:
http://codetojoy.blogspot.com
Ted Neward is an excellent speaker. He has an expert, commanding sense of the subject matter. He is willing to talk to you on your level to ensure the concept or idea is being conveyed correctly. I am glad I got to hear him present at my second NJFS and hope he continues to speak at NFJS.
Thank you Jay and the other speakers for a great experience. Hope to attend again late this year.
Great Weekend! Second time i've attended. Good organization and venue. The main thing i find difficult is choosing which talk to attend for each time slot.
I especially enjoyed Venkat's talk on the agile developer. I think i can apply many of tips at my workplace.
I would love to see more SOA and enterprise service bus, or application integration type talks in the future.
I will definitely be back! I feel re-energized.
PS. Food was great too.
The level of expertise presented here, available at the given price, is almost unbelievable. A great opportunity to catch up with the developments of the Java community; efficient and to the point.
And, contrary to the geek stereotype, I prefer something other than pizza ? the food was delicious.
I attended No Fluff Just Stuff in Dallas this previous weekend. I posted a short blog entry on it here:
http://netsmith.blogspot.com/2006/10/no-fluff-just-stuff-2006-dallas.html
Thanks for putting together a technically focused event without all the marketing that typically embues these types of things.
Regards,
Matthew Smith
I think this is the best conference I've been to yet, at least from the perspective of "learning stuff". Every presentation I went to was informative. Each speaker was a practitioner (as distinct from a salesperson), and most of them were pretty fun to listen to.
I'll go again as soon as I have a chance.
If you are a serious java developer you should consider this symposium. The event is well run and information is presented by technical professionals who have real world experience. I was able to learn more about specific areas of interest and was exposed to a wide array of resources and solutions which I had not previously considered. An excellent experience.
I spent the last three days at the Desert Southwest Software Symposium in Phoenix, AZ, a stop on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour. If you have not yet been to one of these, I highly recommend them. The breadth of topics and the depth of the speakers' knowledge is amazing, attendance is limited, and I have yet to attend a session in which I didn't learn something new. Jay Zimmerman and crew do a fabulous job with these shows.
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Thanks for another great conference and great presentations! I had fun and am really excited about all of the stuff I learned. Can't wait for next year and love my new iPod. :-)
This conference couldn't have turned out better, despite the stormy weather. The presenters are all first rate--they don't just talk about this stuff; most all have invaluable real-world experience they are willing to share. There is honestly not a dud in the bunch. I'm invigorated (if not a little brain-sore) and anxious to implement some of the techniques and ideas that I walked away with.
Seriously, if you are a Java web developer, you owe it to yourself to attend one of these conferences, even if you have to foot the bill yourself.
I had a great time this weekend at the New England No Fluff Just Stuff conference. The speakers were some of the best I've ever heard (I've been to JavaOne twice and I've taken numerous other technical courses). One way to measure the quality of the session / speaker is by how many people walk out during the first 10 or 15 minutes. At JavaOne you'll see an awful lot of people sit down, listen for 5-10 minutes and then walk out. I saw very few people leaving sessions early, which is a testament to both the speakers and the topics. Also, the lack of a conference sponsor gives the speakers the ability to tell it like it is, which is the way it should be.
Keep up the great work!
AJ
I attended the RTP NFJS for the first time this year and I can't say I have any regrets. I was a little skeptical about spending an unpaid weekend at a software conference, but the experience ended up being so valuable to me that I am seriously considering attending the Charlotte conference in October as well.
Where should I start? The quality of the speakers is top-notch. I've listened to technically savvy speakers before, but none held my attention like those at NFJS. These guys know their stuff and are incredibly effective at communicating it to others. It's so easy to just talk about a subject without actually caring about it, but the passion these guys have for what they're talking about really shines through at NFJS.
Secondly, the topics chosen by the speakers are incredibly relevant to the work I'm doing. The things I learned on the first day of the conference were immediately applicable to my work. For example, Glenn's talk on JavaScript absolutely stunned me. I had no idea the language was so rich and complex. After attending NFJS, I returned to work on Monday feeling much more equipped to apply the right tools to the tasks I had before me.
Additionally, I felt energized after being around so many other developers who are so passionate about their work. Attend an NFJS conference and you are truly hanging out with the "best of the best." The atmosphere is positively infectious and you'll come away wondering how you ever lived without the NFJS experience. I will certainly be attending again next year, and more frequently if at all possible. Give NFJS a try! You won't regret it.
I attended the RTP symposium with high expectations, and those expectations were significantly exceeded! Kudos to NFJS for selecting an excellent array of speakers and topics and for organizing an all-around top-notch event!
Compare this symposium to common alternatives for advancing one?s software development knowledge. You could spend $2,700 for a class on web services (yawn) and enjoy a week covering a single topic. The course will surely be filled with half-interested developers and a handful of middle managers just trying to escape work for a week. And oh yeah, expect some fluff.
On the other hand, you could attend an NFJS symposium for ¼ of that price, learn about a vast assortment of interesting and applicable technologies from renowned experts?all in the company of truly-engaged participants (i.e. people willing to give up a weekend to further their skills)!!! And without a doubt, your entire experience is 100% free of all fluff and marketing.
A big thanks to NFJS and the lineup of first-class speakers!
Please see http://srivaths.blogspot.com/2005/06/reasons-to-attend-nofluffjuststuff.html
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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... more »
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