Great Lakes Software Symposium - November 12 - 14, 2010 - No Fluff Just Stuff

Venkat Subramaniam

Great Lakes Software Symposium

Chicago · November 12 - 14, 2010

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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

Scala Tricks

Scala is a very powerful hybrid functional pure object oriented language on the JVM. Scala is known for its conciseness and expressiveness. In this presentation we will look at some common tasks you do everyday in developing applications and see how they manifest in Scala.

Test Driving Multithreaded Code

Once I got convinced about the benefits of TDD, I used it pretty extensively and consistently to drive the design and development of my code. So, it came as a surprise when I was trying to convince myself that those practices do not apply on a highly multithreaded code I was creating on a project. Thankfully, I set out to prove that TDD does not apply, but ended up proving myself wrong.

Tackling Concurrency on the JVM

In this presentation we will take a quick walk though the issues with concurrency and how the solutions provided in Scala and Clojure help address those.

Objective-C for Experienced Programmers

This session is intended for programmers with good working knowledge in at least one OOP language and interested in learning Objective-C to develop Mac and iPhone Apps.

How to Approach Refactoring

You can't be agile if your code sucks. You know that you have to constantly refactor your code and design. But the questions is how? In this presentation, instead of looking at a laundry list of refactoring techniques, we will instead look at how to effectively approach refactoring and along the way discuss some core principles to look for.

What's Brewing in Java

Java has come a long way, and yet there is so much that's happening in this space. In this presentation we will take a look at the exciting additions and changes coming up in the next version of Java.

Keynote: It could be heaven or hell (being a polyglot programmer)

Keynote discussing the benefits and challenges of being a polyglot programmer.