Kenneth Kousen
RWX / CDX
Fort Lauderdale · December 3 - 6, 2013
President, Kousen IT, Inc.
Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.
His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.
Presentations
Grails Workshop
Build a Grails application from start to finish in this half-day workshop. We'll start with domain classes, apply constraints, add controllers and services, apply both unit and integration tests, and then add additional functionality through plugins.
Grails Workshop
Build a Grails application from start to finish in this half-day workshop. We'll start with domain classes, apply constraints, add controllers and services, apply both unit and integration tests, and then add additional functionality through plugins.
Bayes' Rule Says You'll Attend This Talk
Statistics is hot lately, due in part to the easy availability of large data sets and the successes of people like Nate Silver. These aren't your father's statistics, however. A quiet revolution has swept through the field, shifting it from traditional frequentist methods toward a more Bayesian approach. This talk will discuss Bayes' Theorem and show you how to do simple, back-of-the-envelope calculations to apply it to a wide variety of problems.
Basic Android I
The basics of developing for the Android platform will be explored, from setting up the SDK to using the Android Studio IDE and the generated Gradle build files. No previous experience is required, other than a basic knowledge of Java.
Basic Android II
Building on the the previous talk, we'll add intents, customized layouts for alternative configurations, talk about the activity lifecycle, use logging, and more.
Spock Workshop, part 1
The Spock testing framework makes it easy to test projects that use Java, Groovy, or both together. This workshop will use a Gradle build to install the framework, execute a series of tests, and generate a test report. We'll use both regular Spock features (like data-driven and database-driven tests) and the Spock mocking capabilities.
Spock Workshop, part 2
The Spock testing framework makes it easy to test projects that use Java, Groovy, or both together. This workshop will use a Gradle build to install the framework, execute a series of tests, and generate a test report. We'll use both regular Spock features (like data-driven and database-driven tests) and the Spock mocking capabilities.
A Groovy Mullet: JavaScript in the front, Groovy in the back
Grails 2.3 makes it much easier to build RESTful web services from your domain classes, and even includes hypermedia capabilities. This presentation will demonstrate those capabilities and then add a JavaScript client-side framework like AngularJS. The Ratpack framework will also be used as an alternative server-side implementation.