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James Ward

Developer Advocate, Typesafe

James Ward (www.jamesward.com) works for Typesafe where he teaches developers the Typesafe Stack (Play Framework, Scala, and Akka) . James frequently presents at conferences around the world such as JavaOne, Devoxx, and many other Java get-togethers. Along with Bruce Eckel, James co-authored First Steps in Flex. He has also published numerous screencasts, blogs, and technical articles. Starting with Pascal and Assembly in the 80′s, James found his passion for writing code. Beginning in the 90′s he began doing web development with HTML, Perl/CGI, then Java. After building a Flex and Java based customer service portal in 2004 for Pillar Data Systems he became a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe. In 2011 James became a Principal Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com where he taught developers how to deploy apps on the cloud with Heroku. James Tweets as @_JamesWard and posts code at github.com/jamesward.

Blog

Auto-Refresh for Play Framework Apps

Posted Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Over this past weekend I built a little tool for Play Framework app developers which auto-refreshes an app in Chrome when the source code or static assets change. Check out a video demonstration: For information on how to set it up, check out the projemore »

Securing Single Page Apps and REST Services

Posted Monday, May 13, 2013

The move towards Single Page Apps and RESTful services open the doors to a much better way of securing web applications. Traditional web applications use browser cookies to identify a user when a request is made to the server. This approach is fundamemore »

Intro to Play Framework at Boulder Area Scala Enthusiasts

Posted Monday, April 22, 2013

This Wednesday (April 24, 2013) I’ll be presenting an Intro to Play Framework at the Boulder Area Scala Enthusiasts meetup. Also, Dustin Whitney will be presenting an Intro to Scala. Hopefully see you in Bouldmore »

Presenting Play Framework at Devoxx UK & FR 2013

Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2013

This week I’m at Devoxx UK and Devoxx FR presenting about Play Framework. Here are the sessions: Tuesday March 26 @ Devoxx UK: Mobile Apps with HTML5 & Play Framework – With Nicolas Leroux Wednesday March 27 @ Devoxx FR: 6 Minute Appsmore »

Presentations

Practicing Continuous Delivery on the Cloud

This session will teach you best practices and patterns for doing Continuous Delivery / Continuous Deployment in Cloud environments. You will learn how to handle schema migrations, maintain dev/prod parity, manage configuration and scaling. more »

Play vs. Grails Smackdown

In this session, Matt and James will develop two apps that do the same thing. One will be written in Grails and one will be written in Play. We'll deploying them to Heroku and hammer them to see how they both perform under load.more »

Running Java, Play! & Scala Apps on the Cloud Workshop

Heroku is a Polyglot Cloud Application Platform that makes it easy to deploy Java, Play! and Scala apps on the cloud. Deployment is as simple as doing a "git push".more »

Practicing Continuous Delivery on the Cloud

By James Ward

This session will use Heroku as an example platform but the patterns could be implemented anywhere.

Play vs. Grails Smackdown

By James Ward

Who will be declared the winner?!

Running Java, Play! & Scala Apps on the Cloud Workshop

By James Ward

Heroku is a Polyglot Cloud Application Platform that makes it easy to deploy Java, Play! and Scala apps on the cloud. Deployment is as simple as doing a "git push".

This session will teach you how to instantly deploy and scale Java, Play! and Scala apps on Heroku.

Blogs

Chess Pieces or Domain Expertise? Your Choice

Posted By: Johanna Rothman on Jun. 18, 2013

Many years ago, I started a job as a contract manager, and it became clear I had a big problem. I had developers who knew one area of the code well. I had testers who knew not much of any area of the code well, even though they had worked for the organi

Type-Safe Web with Kotlin

Posted By: Andrey Breslav on Jun. 17, 2013

We told you about Kara Web Framework a while ago. It is written in Kotlin and relies on type-safe builders. It doesn’t have to be the only web framework for Kotlin, but the general principles seem good, so I wrote an article about these principles

It’s Déjà vu All Over Again

Posted By: Alan Shalloway on Jun. 13, 2013

Several years ago I tried to discuss the need for Lean when Scrum was being used on projects with more than one team. Ken Schwaber didn’t want to hear this and eventually threw me off the Scrum Development Yahoo discussions group. I admit, I was talk

Slides from Exploding Management Myths Posted

Posted By: Johanna Rothman on Jun. 10, 2013

I gave a talk last week at Better Software/Agile Development, called Exploding Management Myths. This is my first talk based on some of my management myths. Yes, the ones I’ve been writing for the last 18 month

Talk @ GeekOUT Tallinn: Language Design Trade-Offs (Kotlin and Beyond)

Posted By: Andrey Breslav on Jun. 10, 2013

This week I’m speaking at GeekOUT Tallin, and my colleagues Mikhail Vink and Sergey Karashevich are holding a 15-minute DEMO on Thursday, telling you about cool stuff in JetBrains’ IDEs. The topic of my talk is “Language Design Trade-O

In Defense of Kanban

Posted By: Alan Shalloway on Jun. 8, 2013

As many folks know, Net Objectives does both Scrum and Kanban. Admittedly, our Scrum is very much like Scrumban (or Scrum done under the context of Lean) but it is still an implementation of Scrum. Scrum, as it normally manifests itself, has several c

The Differences Between Lean Manufacturing and Lean Software Development

Posted By: Alan Shalloway on Jun. 8, 2013

Since lean comes from manufacturing, many question its validity for software developers. Our own experience is that Lean in software is very important. This blog covers three areas: The essential paradigm shift of lean and why it applies even more to

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Themes at ÜberConf

Architecture
Enterprise Java
Java Internals
Security - Enterprise & JVM
Cloud Computing
Languages on the JVM - Groovy, JRuby, Scala & Clojure
Java Web Frameworks - Wicket, Tapestry & SpringMVC
Build Systems - Maven & Gradle
Testing
Agility

Featured Speaker

Heinz Kabutz

Publisher of The Java Specialists Newsletter

Dr Heinz Kabutz is best known for his creation of The Java Specialists' Newsletter, read in 130 countries by 70000 Java experts. In his newsletter, he examines advanced aspects of Java that have helped Java developers around the world to produce better code. As someone remarked on the Sun website: "Heinz Kabutz is a hero in the Java Developer Community. His newsletters have saved companies millions by helping burgeoning and experienced programmers deliver high quality products." Heinz writes Java code on contract and runs seminars. His latest creation, the Concurrency Specialist Course, is a detailed study of how Java concurrency works. More » All Speakers »

Alan Shalloway

Lead Author of Design Patterns Explained, Essential Skills for Agile Developer

Al Shalloway is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With over 40 years of experience, Al is an industry thought leader in Lean, Kanban, product portfolio management, Scrum and agile design. He helps companies transition to Lean and Agile methods enterprise-wide as well teaches courses in these areas. Al is a SAFe Program Consultant as well as a certified Kanban instructor by the Lean Kanban University. Al has developed training and coaching methods for Lean-Agile that have helped Net Objectives' clients achieve long-term, sustainable productivity gains. He is a popular speaker at prestigious conferences worldwide. He is the primary author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Des..More » All Speakers »

Esther Derby

Co-author of "Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management"

I started my career as a programmer, and over the years I’ve worn many hats, including business owner, internal consultant and manager. From all these perspectives, one thing became clear: our level of individual, team and company success was deeply impacted by our work environment and organizational dynamics. As a result, I have spent the last twenty-five years helping companies design their environment, culture, and human dynamics for optimum success. I’ve written over 100 articles, and co-authored two books–Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great and Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management. I write about management, leadership, collaboration, organizations and change (or another topic I’m ..More » All Speakers »

Cliff Click

CTO & Co-Founder of 0xdata

Cliff Click is the CTO and Co-Founder of 0xdata, a firm dedicated to creating a new way to think about web-scale data storage and real-time analytics. Cliff wrote his first compiler when he was 15 (Pascal to TRS Z-80!), although my most famous compiler is the HotSpot Server Compiler (the Sea of Nodes IR). I helped Azul Systems build an 864 core pure-Java mainframe that keeps GC pauses on 500Gb heaps to under 10ms, and worked on all aspects of that JVM. Before that Cliff worked on HotSpot at Sun Microsystems, and am at least partially responsible for bringing Java into the mainstream. Cliff is invited to speak regularly at industry and academic conferences and has published many papers about HotSpot technolog..More » All Speakers »

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