Jason Porter

RWX / CDX

Fort Lauderdale · December 3 - 6, 2013

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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

Preprocessed Stylesheets, the Sassy Way

Come explore SASS, a CSS preprocessor started back in 2006 and still going strong! We'll look at syntax, extensions, Compass, benefits and debugging.

RESTful applications with Ol' Blue Eyes

You want to build a restful service, but JAX-RS can be complicated, and Java hosting isn't cheap. What other options are there? Let's explore Sinatra, a Ruby web framework that makes RESTful services a breeze to create!