Kenneth Kousen
ÜberConf
Denver · July 21 - 24, 2015
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
Spock Workshop
Learn how to use the Spock testing framework in both Java and Groovy applications. This half-day workshop will demonstrate testing with both Spock and JUnit together for Java projects, Groovy projects, and projects that combine both technologies.
Spock Workshop
Learn how to use the Spock testing framework in both Java and Groovy applications. This half-day workshop will demonstrate testing with both Spock and JUnit together for Java projects, Groovy projects, and projects that combine both technologies.
Android Workshop
Learn Android development from the ground up. We’ll start with the SDK and the Android Studio IDE and build, test, and deploy applications on both emulators and physical devices.
Groovy for Java Developers
Learn Groovy from a Java developer's perspective. Use Groovy features like native collections, operator overloading, and the Groovy JDK. Additional topics will include closures, builders, AST transformations, and basic metaprogramming.
Groovy for Java Developers
Learn Groovy from a Java developer's perspective. Use Groovy features like native collections, operator overloading, and the Groovy JDK. Additional topics will include closures, builders, AST transformations, and basic metaprogramming.
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.
GPars: Concurrency in Java and Groovy
The Groovy Parallel Streams framework is a Groovy library for performing both Java and Groovy tasks concurrently. It offers many high-level concurrency abstractions, from Actors to Dataflow operators to Agents and Parallel Collections.
Beyond Managing Your Manager
This is a revised and updated version of the previous talk, with current thinking from practice and the literature. The talk presents why conflicts with your manager are inevitable based on differences in priorities and perspectives, and how to plan for them. The goal is to show you how to build the loyalty relationship that allows you to get what you need when you need it.