Jason Porter
RWX / CDX
Fort Lauderdale · November 27 - 30, 2012
Senior Software Engineer Red Hat
Jason Porter is a software engineer currently working in the Java Enterprise Edition Space at Red Hat. His specialties include Red Hat JBoss EAP, Wildfly, Seam, CDI, JSF, Java EE, Gradle. He has worked with PHP, Ruby (both stand-alone and Rails), Groovy, XSLT, SASS, and the rest of the web language arena (HTML, CSS, JS, etc).
His current position as Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat has him work primarily on jboss.org, however, he also contributes to JBoss Forge, Arquillian, Apache DeltaSpike, Asciidoctor, Awestruct and others as time allows. He's very interested in the developer experience and helping to improve it at all aspects.
Presentations
Growing an OSS project by turning followers into leaders
Open Source is about building a community of developers and users around a project willing to cooperate, exchange ideas and provide peer review. Participating in the project provides mutual benefit to all parties, including better software, skill improvement, respect, and being a member of a group of peers. But how does it happen? What motivates people to join your project? How do you grow the community?
Bake better websites together on GitHub
Did you know GitHub can be a publishing platform? That a blog entry can be posted via a pull request?
Static is the new dynamic and git is the new way to collaborate. Learn how to use site-baking tools such as Awestruct and Jekyll to build and publish static websites and leverage the ever increasing capabilities of HTML5-based browsers to make your site more dynamic than ever before.