Gateway Software Symposium - March 6 - 8, 2009 - No Fluff Just Stuff

Venkat Subramaniam

Gateway Software Symposium

St. Louis · March 6 - 8, 2009

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Venkat Subramaniam

Founder @ Agile Developer, Inc.

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.

He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.

Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.

Presentations

Cleaning up Code Smell

Projects often start out simple, but soon become complex and turn into a lose cannon.
Organizations are struggling to maintain and evolve software. Poor code quality is a
significant part of that problem. Improving the quality of code is critical to success
of enterprise projects.

Agile Testing

How is testing done on agile projects? Do we need testers when programmers can write tests? When do we do test? If the requirements are evolving, should we postpone testing until they stabilize?

Effective Java

Java is a well established language, that has been around for more than a decade. Yet, programming on it has its challenges. There are concepts and features that are tricky. When you run into those, the compiler is not there to help you.

Building External DSLs

Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) are languages targeted at a particular problem and domain. They have context and are fluent. They help users of applications at various levels to easily communicate with your application. Developing DSLs, however, are not easy. You could easily get dragged into using parsers and tools with steep learning curve.

Know your Groovy?

Groovy brings the dynamic productivity to the Java platform. One of the strengths of Groovy is the seamless integration with Java–it preserves the Java semantics. However, Groovy does have some differences that can surprise you if you're not expecting.

Testing with dependencies

Testing is a key ingredient to the success of a project. However, testing becomes awfully hard when your application deals with dependencies and that is often the reality.