Bruce Tate
Greater Atlanta Software Symposium
Atlanta · October 21 - 23, 2005

Author of 3 JavaOne best sellers
Bruce Tate is a kayaker, mountain biker, and father of two from Austin, Texas. Currently at RapidRed, his focus is on rapid development and Ruby applications. Bruce was the chief technology officer behind the sites ChangingThePresent.org and ClassWish. His current project is DigtheDirt, a social gardening site. The international speaker has coauthored more than a dozen books including Rails Up and Running, Deploying Rails Applications, Beyond Java, and From Java to Ruby. His firm seeks to improve total application quality through the use of small teams, expressive programming language and agile development practices.
Presentations
Introduction to Spring
This session, for the Spring beginner, helps you:
• Understand dependency injection and inversion of control
• Know the meaning of lightweight containers and Spring
• Understand the basic pieces of Spring
• See core Spring modules in action, including Persistence, AOP, transactions.
Attendees need not know anything about Spring. This session does talk about integration with core J2EE frameworks like JDBC and transactions.
Where Agile meets Argyle: New processes in established companies
Agile programming is a collection of core principles and techniques that allow software developers to create lighter, more responsive applications, and to have fun doing it. Many established organizations are either openly or sub-conciously hostile to many of the principles of Agile development.
Beyond Java
All programming languages have a limited life span, and Java is no different. This is a philosophical session rather than a programming session. Sooner or later, Java will lose its leadership position. This session will explore Java's strengths and weaknesses. We'll try to understand whether conditions are ripe for alternatives to emerge, and what those alternatives may be.
Introduction to Hibernate
O/RM (Object/Relational Mapping) seeks to eliminate repetitive or tedious work enabling the CRUD (create, read, update, delete) that underlies most applications. Hibernate is a popular, open-source O/RM tool that uses reflection (instead of code generation, like EJB, or bytecode injection, like JDO) to manage your persistence layer.