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Pratik Patel

Developer Advocate @ Azul Systems

Pratik Patel is a Java Champion and developer advocate at Azul Systems and has written 3 books on programming (Java, Cloud and OSS). An all around software and hardware nerd with experience in the healthcare, telecom, financial services, and startup sectors. He's also a co-organizer of the Atlanta Java User Group and North Atlanta JavaScript meetup, frequent speaker at tech events, and master builder of nachos.

PRESENTATIONS

A Gentle Introduction to Functional JavaScript
Advanced JavaScript & ES6 workshop, Part I
Advanced JavaScript & ES6 workshop, Part II
Advanced JavaScript for Java Devs
An Intro to Reactive Programming for the Web: RxJS and Cycle.js
Applied Functional Programming in JavaScript
Continuous Integration for Web & JavaScript Projects
ES2015: Using tomorrow's JavaScript today!
Fun for all ages: Modding & Hacking Minecraft with ScriptCraft
Functional JavaScript
High Performance JavaScript Web Apps Architecture
JavaScript Design Patterns
Migrating to ES2015 workshop, part I
Migrating to ES2015 workshop, part II
Mobile Performance Tips n' Tricks
Multi-platform messaging with RabbitMQ
React.js Workshop
React.js: Super-fast Single Page Web Applications
Redux: Functional Programming for the Web
Single Page Web Apps Architecture
Software dev's guide to hardware hacking
Task processing, APIs, and Big Data and in JavaScript: actionhero.js
Testing JavaScript with Jasmine and Mocha
The Modern JavaScript Server Stack

EVENTS

Code Remix May 12 - 14, 2025 Miami, FL
ÜberConf July 15 - 18, 2025 Denver, CO
TechLeader Summit December 3 - 5, 2025 Clearwater, FL

BOOKS

Visual Developer Java Database Programming with JDBC, 2nd Edition: The Essentials for Developing Databases for Internet and Intranet Applications

Java Database Programming with JDBC by Pratik Patel and Karl Moss is an updated edition of the authors' guide to the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) standard for database programming under Java. While the original edition was perhaps geared more to those developers who needed to write their own JDBC database drivers, a fairly arduous task, this new edition provides more background information on database connectivity issues in Java and so will be even more useful to the casual or intermediate programmer. After a general introduction to JDBC and Structured Query Language (SQL), useful even to beginning programmers, the authors start by building a simple database-aware applet. New chapters on "servlets," Java components that run on the server-side and manage database operations, as well as a general discussion of middleware technologies are particularly good. Database access for JavaBean components (from Sun Microsystems JDK 1.1) is also discussed, including working code for two database-aware beans. This book also includes a quick introduction to the Java language (which will only be helpful if you already know C/C++), a detailed reference for the JDBC API, and a working example of a text-based JDBC driver. Though this book is still oriented toward the JDBC driver developer, the authors now provide enough general discussion of JDBC architectural issues to make it worthwhile to any programmer who needs to ramp up on what JDBC is and what capabilities it offers.

Java Database Programming with JDBC: Discover the Essentials for Developing Databases for Internet and Intranet Applications

Java Database Programming with JDBC by Pratik Patel and Karl Moss is an updated edition of the authors' guide to the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) standard for database programming under Java. While the original edition was perhaps geared more to those developers who needed to write their own JDBC database drivers, a fairly arduous task, this new edition provides more background information on database connectivity issues in Java and so will be even more useful to the casual or intermediate programmer. After a general introduction to JDBC and Structured Query Language (SQL), useful even to beginning programmers, the authors start by building a simple database-aware applet. New chapters on "servlets," Java components that run on the server-side and manage database operations, as well as a general discussion of middleware technologies are particularly good. Database access for JavaBean components (from Sun Microsystems JDK 1.1) is also discussed, including working code for two database-aware beans. This book also includes a quick introduction to the Java language (which will only be helpful if you already know C/C++), a detailed reference for the JDBC API, and a working example of a text-based JDBC driver. Though this book is still oriented toward the JDBC driver developer, the authors now provide enough general discussion of JDBC architectural issues to make it worthwhile to any programmer who needs to ramp up on what JDBC is and what capabilities it offers.

Java Programming for the Internet: A Guide to Creating Dynamic, Interactive Internet Applications

Enables readers to master the Java programming language for internet applications while expanding the scope of online development, and the accompanying CD contains powerful sample applets and a copy of Netscape Navigator. Original. (Intermediate).