Venkat Subramaniam
New England Software Symposium
Boston · Sep 30 - Oct 2, 2016
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
Java 8 Lambdas, the Path way to Functional Style
Functional programming has gained the recognition it deserves and almost all mainstream languages now support functional style of programming. With the introduction of lambdas in Java 8, we have new tools on our hands. In this presentation, we explore this tool and how we can benefit from it.
Java 8 Programming Idioms
A number of developers and organizations are beginning to make use of Java 8. With anything that's new, we often learn it the hard way.
A Few Hidden Treasures in Java 8
Sure, Java 8 has lambdas and streams. However, the JDK has gone through significant makeover to make good use of lambdas and streams. Furthermore, some of the new functional interfaces have far more than abstract methods.
Twelve Ways to Make Code Suck Less
We all have seen our share of bad code and some really good code as well. What are some of the common anti patterns that seem to be recurring over and over in code that sucks? By learning about these code smells and avoiding them, we can greatly help make our code better.
Refactoring to Functional Style using Java 8
In Java, we've programmed with the imperative style for a few decades now. With Java 8, we can also code in Functional Style. This style has a number of benefits: code is concise, more expressive, easier to understand, and easier to make change. But, the transition from imperative to functional style is a hard journey. It's not as much an issue of getting comfortable with the syntax. It's the challenge of thinking functionally. What better way to learn that transition than taking imperative code and refactoring it to a more of a functional style.
A Practical Introduction to Angular 2.0
What’s a better way to learn about a library than actually building an application with it? In this all live-coding, zero powerpoint presentation, we will take up an application and build it using Angular 2.0. Along the way, we will learn about various aspects of this wonderful library, it’s capabilities, strengths, and good practices.
Automated Testing AngularJS from the ground up
When it comes to automated testing, there are haves and have-nots. That is those who have the discipline and those who don’t-to perform automated testing. Many have given uncountable excuses as to why JavaScript related projects can’t be automated tested. But, those are just that excuses. In this presentation, we will take a step-by-step approach to creating an application fully test driven. Instead of taking theory, we will quickly get into the nitty gritty details of automated testing through a practical example, get into a bit of complexity, and resolve our way with effective and practical testing techniques.