Programming with HTML 5

Developing a rich user interface for web applications is both exciting and challenging. HTML 5 has closed the gaps and once again brought new vibe into programming the web tier. Come to this session to learn how you can make use of HTML 5 to create stellar applications.

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iOS Workshop

During the all day iOS hands-on tutorial, we will do soup to nuts iOS development. We will start with how to use XCode and build a universal application for iPhone and iPad using a variety of common APIs. We will finish up talking about and demoing how to prepare and deploy to the app store.

The app we build will allow us to experiment with a bunch of APIs including Core Data, Camera, and more.

Android Workshop

Spend a day learning how to develop native apps on the world's most popular smartphone platform. You'll get hands on experience developing a native Android app that will use most of the major components available in the framework.

The workshop will be taught using Android Studio with the new Gradle build system.

Use Android Activites to create the User Interface. Learn how to run background services. Create broadcast receivers to react to changes in the phones state. You'll even learn how to interact with the location services and display Google maps.

We'll take a deep dive into the details. You'll write code to interact with Android's built-in SQLite database. You'll add logging to your app and you'll even learn how to do unit testing in the Android environment.

Leave the class with hands-on skills and a working application that will be ready to publish to the Android Market.

Don't miss out on this excellent opportunity. Register now!

Please install Android Studio before arriving at the workshop.

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Workshop

Build your awareness of the basic concepts and value of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) in one day through group exercises, paired code walkthroughs, lecture and games.

Understand what DDD is and when and why it is valuable to software intensive organizations. Overview the basic principles and processes needed develop the useful sort of models, tie them into implementation and business analysis, and place them within a viable, realistic strategy.

Topics Introduced

Morning

• What is DDD and how is modeling useful?
• Developing a shared modeling language to enable effective collaboration
• Using reference scenarios to guide modeling
• What makes a model useful to a software project?
• Architectural options for implementing DDD
• Aggregate design - applying effective aggregate design for both relational and NoSQL solutions
• Domain events - decoupling, scaling and modeling chronology in distributed systems

Afternoon

• Prioritizing sophisticated design for where it will have the greatest impact
• Clarifying a shared vision
• Mapping the terrain of your systems to enable effective modeling and design
• Integrating agile with rigorous design
• Succeeding with DDD and avoiding common adoption pitfalls

Clojure Workshop

In an increasingly crowded field of languages, Clojure stands alone. It is a dynamic, functional, high performance dialect of Lisp that runs on both the JVM and CLR. The creator cast aside assumptions from both the Lisp and Java communities to create a remarkable language implementation.

This workshop introduces Clojure to Java developers who might not have seen a Lisp and don’t yet understand why that’s such an advantage. I introduce the language syntax (what little there is of it), cover interoperability with Java, macros, mutlti-methods, and more. I also cover the functional aspects of Clojure, showing its powerful immutable data structures, working with threads and concurrency, and sequences. Beyond just showing syntax, I also show how to build real applications in Clojure, and give you a chance to do the same. Attending this workshop shows enough to pique your interest and show why many of the people who were interested in Java in 1996 are interested in Clojure now.

Hadoop

When you want to measure fractions of a millimeter, you get a micrometer. When you want to measure centimeters, you get a ruler. When you want to measure kilometers, you might use a laser beam. The abstract task is the same in all cases, but the tools differ significantly based on the size of the measurement.

Likewise, there are some computations that can be done quickly on data structures that fit into memory. Some can't fit into memory, but will fit on the direct-attached disk of a single computer. But when you've got many terabytes or even petabytes of data, you need tooling adapted to the scale of the task. Enter Hadoop.

Hadoop is a widely-used open source framework for storing massive data sets in distributed clusters of computers and efficiently distributing computational tasks around the cluster. Come learn about the Hadoop File System (HDFS), the MapReduce pattern and its implementation, and the broad ecosystem of tools, products, and companies that have grown up around this ground-breaking project.

Programming Concurrency with Akka

I call the JDK concurrency API as the synchronize and suffer model. Fortunately, you don't have to endure that today. You have some nice options, brought to prominence on the JVM by Scala and Clojure.

In this workshop, learn how to program with Actors and STM using Akka, a powerful and popular library created using Scala but usable from any language on the JVM. You have a choice to pick the language you like in this workshop, and learn how to use these powerful concurrency models.