Venkat Subramaniam
Pacific Northwest Software Symposium
Seattle · October 28 - 30, 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
A Practical Intro to Angular 2 using Good Old JavaScript
Like to learn how to build applications in Angular 2, but want to learn how to do so using the good old JavaScript language?
Automated Testing of Angular 2 Applications Written using JavaScript
Angular 2 is build with testability in mind. The framework does not suggest that testing is good, it walks the extra mile to actually make applications testable.
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.
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.
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.