Venkat Subramaniam
Pacific Northwest Software Symposium
Seattle · October 17 - 19, 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Test Driven Development with Spock
Spock brings fluency, nice DSL like syntax for writing unit tests. Spock leverages JUnit, but helps makes tests a lot more expressive. Mocking is baked in as well.
Languages to Keep an Eye on
Languages bring a lot beyond syntax, they bring idioms and promote a particular paradigm or even a combination of paradigms. Learning about different languages makes us better designers in languages we work with everyday. That gives us a good incentive to keep an eye on what's out there, what's relatively new and emerging.
Taking Command of the Command Line
Moderns IDEs are great, they let us get our work done, focus on solving problems, provide code prompts, and more. On the flip-side, they hide of lot of details and often do not provide everything to help get our work done. Learning to effectively use the command line, can help us navigate around, write script to automate certain routine tasks, isolate and understand issues, and more.