Pratik Patel
Lone Star Software Symposium: Dallas
Dallas · May 17 - 19, 2013
Developer Advocate @ Azul Systems
Pratik Patel is a Java Champion and developer advocate at Azul Systems and has written 3 books on programming (Java, Cloud and OSS). An all around software and hardware nerd with experience in the healthcare, telecom, financial services, and startup sectors. He's also a co-organizer of the Atlanta Java User Group and North Atlanta JavaScript meetup, frequent speaker at tech events, and master builder of nachos.
Presentations
Functional JavaScript
JavaScript has a mixed heritage: OO and Functional. To date, us developers have focused on the OO side of JavaScript and not much mind-share has been given to the other, more powerful side. In this session we'll explore how to use the power of functional Javascript.
Advanced JavaScript for Java Devs
So you think you've picked up enough JavaScript to be dangerous, but feel like the whole prototypical language thing is still a mystery. In this session, we'll go from basic JavaScript to advanced JavaScript. We'll discuss and code modular JavaScript with CommonJS. We'll look into the details of a prototype language and discuss things like parasitic inheritance. We'll also look at JavaScript libraries that will help you get the most out of JavaScript - not jQuery, but a library like UnderscoreJS and SugarJS.
JavaScript Design Patterns
We've come a long way down the JavaScript road. Gone are the days of 'just hack it' for the web - architecting even a small project in JavaScript can be a challenge. Thankfully, there are several frameworks to help you; the most popular currently is Backbone.js.
Building Native iOS and Android apps with JavaScript
Ever wish you could use your JavaScript-foo to build a NATIVE mobile app? Wish there was an open-source platform that would let you build awesome cross-platform mobile apps? Come to this session and learn about Titanium, an open-source, JavaScript based platform for creating native mobile apps.
Single Page Web Apps Architecture
The Single Page App, or SPA, require the developer thinks about architecture in new ways compared to traditional server-side page generation web apps. Whether you've used Java web frameworks like Spring Web, or Struts, dynamic frameworks like Grails or Rails, or even Django or PHP, you will need to learn some new techniques for building SPA type applications. We discuss the architecture and design of Service Oriented Front End Architectures (SOFEA) in this session.