Resource-Oriented Groovy

Ok, we've got our agile methodologies, our test-driven development, our dynamic scripting languages and, what? A static data model? Relational systems that need to have the relationships spelled out for them? What is wrong with this picture? Our information systems are increasingly dynamic, we shouldn't let our data slow us down.

The good news is that technologies are emerging to change this situation. Come hear how we can leverage existing web-oriented techniques and new resource-oriented environments like NetKernel to give our dynamic languages dynamic systems to live on. We'll focus on scripting together layered architectural components and services, generating data-driven applications, adopting good naming schemes that will yield tremendous benefits and the power of good abstractions in the hands of great languages.

About Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.

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