Scott Davis
Pacific Northwest Software Symposium
Seattle · October 14 - 16, 2005
Author of "Groovy Recipes"
Scott Davis is the founder of ThirstyHead.com, a training company that specializes in Groovy and Grails training.
Scott published one of the first public websites implemented in Grails in 2006 and has been actively working with the technology ever since. Author of the book Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java and two ongoing IBM developerWorks article series (Mastering Grails and in 2009, Practically Groovy), Scott writes extensively about how Groovy and Grails are the future of Java development.
Presentations
Testing the Web Tier
Hopefully your test plan involves more than, “Well, it compiled…” JUnit is fast becoming a required part of the modern Java developer's toolkit. Unit testing your Java classes is a great start, but your test plan shouldn't stop there.
This talk will introduce several additional testing tools for the web developer – HttpUnit, Canoo WebTest, and JMeter. These tools allow you to test a live website with no changes to the production code. Even better, you can test sites that have been implemented in technologies other than Java.
Guerrilla Web Techniques
Frameworks? We don't need no stinkin' web frameworks. OK, so maybe that's overstating the case. Web frameworks do plenty of good things, but sometimes they can also be golden handcuffs. Too many web developers fall into the trap of thinking, “If it can't be done by my web framework, then it simply can't be done.”
Pair Programming for the Single Programmer
The full title of this talk is, “The Sound of One Hand Clapping, or How to Pair Program with a Single Programmer – Scaling XP to Small Projects.” Everyone talks about using J2EE for massive projects, but what about the lone wolf developer? Can they still apply the lessons learned from agile development methodologies to their everyday work?