Mark Johnson
New England Software Symposium
Boston · September 11 - 13, 2009
Director Consulting @ Hortonworks
Mark Johnson is a Director of Consulting at Hortonworks where his day is spent helping people achieve value from their Big and complex Data repositories. Mark has worked on a wide range of technology during his career. Most recently he has focused on the Hadoop ecosystem. Mark is active in the software community as the President of the New England Java Users Group (NEJUG) and a regular presenter to user groups and various conferences. When not working, Mark can be found riding his mountain bike on local trails and playing with his family.
Presentations
Groovy Closures - The way to cleaner code
The factory patterns and callbacks have been around for a long time as a technique to provide flavor specific code variations. But they are awkward and hard to update. Enter Groovy closures. Imagine having the ability to inject different coding flavors using code closures. If you need a different flavor, then just pass a different code block. Now imagine that all of this works on the JVM!
10 Things you should know about Software Risk Management
Once you leave academic “hello world” projects, software development is full of unknowns which result in the high rate of project failure we see too often in industry. This presentation will cover 10 principles of software risk management necessary for project success.