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Dan Allen

Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Author and Open Source Advocate

As Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Dan serves as the JBoss Community liaison, leads the JBoss Testing Initiative and is a member of the Arquillian, ShrinkWrap and JBoss Forge projects. He authored Seam in Action (Manning), served as a representative for Red Hat on the JSR-314 Expert Group (JSF 2.0), writes for IBM developerWorks and NFJS magazine and is an internationally recognized speaker. He's appeared at major industry conferences including JavaOne, Devoxx, NFJS, JAX and Jazoon and has received recognition as a JavaOne Rock Star, a JBossWorld Top Presenter and a JAX Hall of Fame speaker.

To colleagues, Dan's known for his hard work and passion for Open Source technologies. His technical expertise includes Java frameworks (Seam, CDI, Weld, JSF, EJB 3, JPA, Hibernate, Spring), testing frameworks (Arquillian, JUnit, TestNG, Selenium), build tools (Maven 2, Gradle, Ant) and web development (Ajax, JavaScript, CSS) and more.

You can keep up with Dan's discoveries by reading his blogs at http://mojavelinux.com and http://community.jboss.org/people/dan.j.allen/blog or tracking what he's currently up to by following him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/mojavelinux.

Presentations

Drop the angled brackets. Discover the zen of writing (Ascii)Docs.

Writing documentation is already hard enough. Why do we make it harder by burying the content in an XML schema like DocBook or wrestling with finicky WSYWIG editors? Come learn how to find the zen of writing documentation using AsciiDoc and still be able to produce beautiful HTML 5, DocBook and PDF documents--or even a slide deck like the one in this presentation!

Writing documentation is already hard enough. Why do we make it harder by burying the content in an XML schema like DocBook or wrestling with finicky WSYWIG editors?

What if you could write documentation like you write an email? Forget about the layout and styling and just let the thoughts flow? That's the idea behind the lightweight markup languages such as AsciiDoc. AsciiDoc is designed for humans, yet can meet even the most advanced publishing requirements.

In AsciiDoc, the bulk of document is the content, embellished with mild and intuitive semantic markup. Need to insert code? Just reference the location of the source you want to include. Document getting too long? Break it up into parts. Need to merge changes from another author? Easy! It's just plain text.

Come learn how to find the zen of writing documentation using AsciiDoc and still be able to produce beautiful HTML 5, DocBook and PDF documents--or even a slide deck like the one in this presentation!

Continuous Enterprise Development in Java Workshop

How many times have you wanted to start a new project in Java EE, but struggled with copying and pasting all the pieces together? Forge can take you from 0 to Java EE, Spring, GWT and more in few swift keystrokes.

But, are you confident enough to push your application to production right now? Will it deploy? Integrate all the components? Keep the fail whale at bay? Confidence comes from tests. Real tests written with Arquillian.

In this workshop, you'll learn how to achieve continuous development using Forge to automate mundane tasks and Arquillian to write real tests. Together, let's build an application, test it, and deploy it both locally and to the cloud! Let's learn to use tools to make us more confident developers.

How many times have you wanted to start a new project, but struggled with copying and pasting all the pieces together? Has the Maven archetype syntax left you with your eyes crossed? Everyone else is talking about Rails, Grails, and Roo, and you're left thinking, "I wish it were that easy for Java." Well, it is!

Forge can take you from 0 to Java EE, Spring, GWT and more in few swift keystrokes. Forge helps streamline application development, eases the pain of setting up enterprise testing and integration, and utilizes the full power of JBoss AS 7 for development, testing, and deployment. You can even switch seamlessly between Forge and the Eclipse-based JBoss Developer Studio.

But, are you confident enough to push your application to production right now? Will it deploy? Integrate all the components? Keep the fail whale at bay? Confidence comes from tests. Real tests.

Discover how to use Arquillian to develop tests that execute inside a container, use BDD and ATDD for integration and acceptance tests that your stakeholders can grok and gain the confidence you need to continue developing, knowing your application will remain standing when faced with the real world.

In this workshop, you'll learn how to achieve continuous development using Forge to automate mundane tasks and Arquillian to write real tests. Together, let's build an application, test it, extend it, and deploy it both locally and to the cloud! Let's learn to use tools to make us more confident developers.


Books

by Dan Allen

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  • JBoss Seam is an exciting new application framework based on the Java EE platform that is used to build rich, web-based business applications. Seam is rapidly capturing the interest of Java enterprise developers because of its focus on simplicity, ease of use, transparent integration, and scalability.

    Seam in Action offers a practical and in-depth look at JBoss Seam. The book puts Seam head-to-head with the complexities in the Java EE architecture. The author presents an unbiased view of Seam from outside the walls of RedHat/JBoss, focusing on such topics as Spring integration and deployment to alternative application servers to steer clear of vendor lock-in. By the end of the book, you should expect to not only gain a deep understanding of Seam, but also come away with the confidence to teach the material to others.

    To start off, you will see a working Java EE-compliant application come together by the end of the second chapter. As you progress through the book, you will discover how Seam eliminates unnecessary layers and configurations, solves the most common JSF pain points, and establishes the missing link between JSF, EJB 3 and JavaBean components. The author also shows you how Seam opens doors for you to incorporate technologies you previously have not had time to learn, such as business processes and stateful page flows (jBPM), Ajax remoting, PDF generation, asynchronous tasks, and more.

    All too often, developers spend a majority of their time integrating disparate technologies, manually tracking state, struggling to understand JSF, wrestling with Hibernate exceptions, and constantly redeploying applications, rather than on the logic pertaining to the business at hand. Seam in Action dives deep into thorough explanations of how Seam eliminates these non-core tasks by leveraging configuration by exception, Java 5 annotations, and aspect-oriented programming.

    Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.






Blogs

Johanna Rothman

Devs in the ‘Ditch Slides Posted

Posted By: Johanna Rothman on May. 21, 2013

I gave a talk at Devs in the ‘Ditch last week when I was in London. I posted the slides on slideshare: Overcoming Three Pitfalls of Transitioning to Agile. The very nice people at 7digital made a video and posted it, to



Alan Shalloway

Day 15 of 100 Know You Are Managing Time to Market & How To Do It

Posted By: Alan Shalloway on May. 17, 2013

Continuing with the 100 Things You Must Know to Be Effective In Software Development The purpose of development/IT is to deliver value quickly - not just for a team, but for the entire organization. If you reflect on this, it's not about going fast, it



Alan Shalloway

Day 14 of 100 There is more than customer value

Posted By: Alan Shalloway on May. 15, 2013

Continuing with the 100 Things You Must Know to Be Effective In Software Development While adding value to the customer is the ultimate goal, there is more than customer value. There are actually at least five different types of business value: knowing



James Ward

Auto-Refresh for Play Framework Apps

Posted By: James Ward on 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 proje



James Harmon

Android Panel and Kiosk Apps

Posted By: James Harmon on May. 14, 2013

One advantage of doing business in the Chicago area is getting to see lots of manufacturers.  The Midwest still builds stuff.As an Android developer who gets to talk with many of the local companies I've recently noticed a pattern in the Android sp



Alan Shalloway

Day 13 of 100 Systems Thinking From Individual to Organization

Posted By: Alan Shalloway on May. 14, 2013

Hi everyone.  To pick the pace back up I'm going to write either shorter blogs or, as in today, I will take some previous work and mold it into this work.  I appreciate your patience and will get things going agai



James Ward

Securing Single Page Apps and REST Services

Posted By: James Ward on 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 fundame



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  • Build Systems - Maven & Gradle
  • Testing
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