Venkat Subramaniam
New England Software Symposium
Boston · Feb 28 - Mar 2, 2014
Founder @ Agile Developer, Inc.
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.
Presentations
Concurrency without Pain in Pure Java
Programming concurrency has turned into a herculean task. I call the traditional approach as the synchronized and suffer model. Fortunately, there are other approaches to concurrency and you can reach out to those directly from your Java code.
Understanding the "NO" in NoSQL
Relational databases have ruled the world since the dawn of time (or so it appears). They power our enterprises and for many in the corporate world, it may be hard to imagine life without them. Each decade a novel idea would challenge the status quo and make a case to deviate for the tradition. A flock of enthusiastic programmers, like your humble speaker back in the early 90s, would throw their support around it, only to be crushed eventually by the large vendors and enterprise standards. But, the excitement around NoSQL has shown that enterprise data is not the only thing that's persistent.
Programming with Neo4J
A nice alternative to relational databases, graph databases are being used in a number of applications from social networking to data analysis. Neo4J is a powerful, high performance industrial strength database that is highly scalable. It provides nice integration with Java.
Designing with Lambda Expressions
Java 8 brings support for lambda expressions and functional style of programming. With that, the design concepts and the patterns we're used to in Java enjoy a makeover.
Reactive Programming
Reactive programming is gaining some good attention recently. If you wonder what this is all about come to this presentation for a practical introduction.
JVM Tools for the Java Developers
When we run into issues with our programs we often run to the debugger. While that's a powerful tool, there are problems far beyond what a debugger can expose. We often want to profile code, take a look at the memory usage or where a bottle neck may be.
Programming with Lambda Expressions
Now that Java is supporting lambda expressions, it's time to hone our skills to make use of them. Lambda expressions can help create concise code, however, it takes more than learning the syntax to put them to good use.
Modular JavaScript
JavaScript is powerful, but it is important not to let that turn into a beast on our projects. In this workshop we will first learn some core features of JavaScript and techniques to tame this language. We will then explore ways to modularize it. Come prepared with your laptops to crank out some code and work along exercises.