Brian Sam-Bodden

Greater Wisconsin Software Symposium

Madison · March 1 - 2, 2013

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Brian Sam-Bodden is a developer advocate at Redis Labs as well as an author, instructor, speaker, and hacker who has spent over twenty years crafting software systems. He holds dual bachelor’s degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University in computer science and physics. Brian is a frequent speaker at user groups and conferences nationally and abroad and is the author of “Beginning POJOs: Spring, Hibernate, JBoss and Tapestry”, co-author of the “Enterprise Java Development on a Budget: Leveraging Java Open Source Technologies” and a contributor to O'Reilly's “97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know”.

Presentations

Cleaning up your JavaScript with CoffeeScript

An introduction to CoffeeScript as a drop in replacement for JavaScript and a tour of how it can impart structure to what has traditionally been a most disorganized part of our Web Applications.

Advanced JQuery Techniques

In this session we'll venture into the lesser known JQuery (and JavaScript) techniques used to created components/widgets and mini-frameworks. Come and fill your client-side tool belt with new tools and techniques to make your web applications better.

Testing your JavaScript with Jasmine

In this session you'll learn about Jasmine, a behavior-driven development (BDD) framework for testing JavaScript code. Come and learn how to raise the bar for your client side testing using the BDD mindset.

JBoss Drools: Rule Engine Development in Java

This workshop is aimed at Java and Java EE developers looking to understand and apply a Rule Engine to solve problems typically and painfully addressed with traditional programming techniques.

JBoss Drools: Rule Engine Development in Java

This workshop is aimed at Java and Java EE developers looking to understand and apply a Rule Engine to solve problems typically and painfully addressed with traditional programming techniques.

Cassandra: NoSQL with teeth!

While many developers have embrace simpler NoSQL variants (like MongoDB and CouchDB). Cassandra is possibly at the forefront of the NoSQL innovation, providing a level of reliability and fine tuning not found in many of the competitors offerings.
In this session we'll learn why you should consider Cassandra DB for your next large-data project and how to build a Cassandra based application from the ground up, taking advantage of virtualization techniques to emulate a complex multi-machine environment.