Dan Allen
RWX / CDX
Fort Lauderdale · November 27 - 30, 2012
Software Developer, Author and Open Source Advocate
Dan is an open source advocate, community catalyst, software generalist, author and speaker. Most of the time, he's hacking using some JVM language. He leads the Asciidoctor project and serves as the community liaison for Arquillian. He builds on these experiences to help make a variety of open source projects wildly successful, including Asciidoctor, Arquillian, Opal and JBoss Forge.
Dan is the author of Seam in Action (Manning, 2008) and has written articles for NFJS, the Magazine, IBM developerWorks, Java Tech Journal and JAXenter. He's also an internationally recognized speaker, having presented at major software conferences including JavaOne, Devoxx, NFJS, UberConf, RWX, JAX and jFokus. He's recognized as a JavaOne Rock Star and Java (JVM) Champion.
After a long conference day, you'll likely find Dan geeking out about technology, documentation and testing with fellow community members over a Trappist beer or Kentucky Bourbon.
Presentations
Drop the Angled Brackets. Discover the Zen of Writing (Ascii)Docs.
Writing documentation is hard enough. Why do we insist on making it harder by burying the content in an XML schema like DocBook or wrestling with finicky WSYWIG editors? Come learn how to achieve writing zen with AsciiDoc and use Asciidoctor to produce beautiful HTML 5, DocBook and PDF documents–or even a slide deck like the one used in this presentation!
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.