Stuart Halloway

Cryptography for Programmers

For centuries people have used crypto to build (and break) secure systems. Computers have only raised the pitch of conflict, providing enormous cryptographic power at commodity prices. Most programmers do not write their own crypto libraries, instead relying on the services of an operating system or virtual machine. But even with all this support, building secure systems is a daunting task.

Design Patterns Revisited: Taking advantage of dynamic, reflective languages

(3 Hour Session)
Attendees should attend the Introduction to Reflection talk, or have some experience using reflection or metaprogamming in a reflective language such as Java, Objective-C, Smalltalk, Python, or Ruby. Familiarity with the GOF book is helpful but not required.

Design patterns are recurring solutions to problems that consistently appear in software development. However, this does not mean that design patterns cannot be “solved”, i.e. converted into language or library features. In fact, most of the original design patterns can be solved using dynamic language features such as reflection.

Design Patterns Revisited: Taking advantage of dynamic, reflective languages

(3 Hour Session)
Attendees should attend the Introduction to Reflection talk, or have some experience using reflection or metaprogamming in a reflective language such as Java, Objective-C, Smalltalk, Python, or Ruby. Familiarity with the GOF book is helpful but not required.

Design patterns are recurring solutions to problems that consistently appear in software development. However, this does not mean that design patterns cannot be “solved”, i.e. converted into language or library features. In fact, most of the original design patterns can be solved using dynamic language features such as reflection.

Java Platform Security and JAAS

The Java platform is built from the ground up with security in mind. This talk will introduce the security features of the J2SE, building quickly from the basic classes to realistic examples.

Introduction to Java Reflection

Reflection is writing code that manipulates itself. Well-written reflective code automates a broad class of repetitive, error-prone programming tasks. Poorly-written reflective code obfuscates programs and destroys the benefits of the type system. We'll focus on the former.

Unit Testing Java with Jython and JRuby

JUnit is great. Jython and JRuby are even better. Unit testing libraries look the same everywhere, so why not use the one that lets you get your job done faster?