Twin Cities Software Symposium - October 3 - 4, 2014 - No Fluff Just Stuff
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Venkat Subramaniam

Twin Cities Software Symposium

Minneapolis · October 3 - 4, 2014

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Venkat Subramaniam

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.

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.

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.