Venkat Subramaniam
Northern Virginia Software Symposium
Reston · November 4 - 6, 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
JavaScript Programming Idioms - Creating Elegant Code
JavaScript code really does not have to suck. We can write some of the most elegant, concise, and expressive code in JavaScript. Use functional style, create
code that's easier to understand and maintain.
Patterns for Programming in JavaScript
The arguably most pervasive and ubiquitous language is the most misunderstood as well. If you've struggled with and eager to write better JavaScript, come to this presentation to learn about good styles and patterns that can make your next JavaScript code shine. We will start by looking at some ways to make code reusable and reduce errors.
Designing Reactive Systems: Creating Highly Responsive and Resilient Applications
Organizations have moved from making their employees available to having their applications available directly to the users. This changes the magnitude of scale
of interactions the applications have to support. Furthermore, with devices and bots accessing the systems, we’re looking at a complete different rate of response than we once had to aim for.
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.
Core Software Design Principles
Creating code is easy, creating good code takes a lot of time, effort, discipline, and commitment. The code we create are truly the manifestations of our designs. Creating a lightweight design can help make the code more extensible and reusable.
Testing Functional Style Java 8 code using JUnit 5
Functional programming promotes immutability and using higher-order functions. Functional code is in general easier test, but lambdas and lazy evaluations pose some challenges from the tools point of view. That's where JUnit 5 comes in.
Automated Testing with Spock
Automated testing is a much needed practice in our industry. But, it takes discipline and diligence to write tests. Making automated testing fun can greatly help in that direction. Furthermore, creating fluent, expressive, and concise tests can help to maintain the tests in the long run. If you're keenly interested in creating automated tests for your Groovy and Java code, Spock is a great tool for it.