Robert Fischer
Lone Star Software Symposium: Austin
Austin · July 10 - 12, 2009
Java Concurrency Specialist and GORM Expert; Principal, Smokejumper Consulting
Robert Fischer is a multi-language open source developer currently specializing in Groovy in Grails. In the past, his specialties have been in Perl, Java, Ruby, and OCaml. In the future, his specialty will probably be F# or (preferably) a functional JVM language like Scala or Clojure.
Robert is the author of Grails Persistence in GORM and GSQL, a regular contributor to GroovyMag and JSMag, the founder of the JConch Java concurrency library, and the author/maintainer of Liquibase-DSL and the Autobase database migration plugin for Grails.
Presentations
Architecting Code for Concurrent Execution: Theory and Practice
The power of multicore machines and cloud computing is all dependent on an application's ability to successfully leverage concurrency. Although concurrency has traditionally been considered fatally difficult in Java, a few simple architecture principles can make all the difference. This session will review some of those principles in both theory and practice.
The Concurrency Toolset: JConch, Google Collections, and java.util.concurrent
JConch is a library that provides a few high-level tools for high-concurrency environments on the JVM. The java.util.concurrent package in the Java standard library provides low-level structures for managing concurrent communication. Learn here how to use both of them in order to produce clean, highly-concurrent, and highly-tunable code.
A Practical Take on GORM
For years, the venerable Hibernate object-relational mapping framework has dominated the persistence scene in Java. The Grails web application framework extended Hibernate and Spring with their impressive GORM persistence framework, providing convention-over-configuration development to the O/RM and DAO layers. This session will introduce GORM and work up to some of its intermediate features.
Grails for the Enterprise
The Grails web application is an innovative hybrid of best-of-breed Java technologies and dynamic/convention-based development. The result is a powerful, flexible, exciting framework that still fits comfortably into enterprise stacks. This session introduces Grails, but approaches it from the perspective of an enterprise web development stack, in order to see how Grails works well in mid-size and mature development shops.