Daniel Hinojosa

I have seen the top Akka mountain, and it is good.

5:00 PM MDT

Presentation on Akka. A set various tools to write concurrent, fault-tolerant applications using immutable data, asyncronous message passing using local and remote actors, software transactional memory, and supervised systems.

Akka is a middleware, but it is not your 1990s middleware. Akka is a set of various tools to write concurrent, fault-tolerant applications using immutable data, asyncronous message passing using local and remote actors, software transactional memory, and supervised systems. Akka is also part of the Typesafe stack, a stack that include the Play web framework and the Scala programming language. This Akka presentation will cover both Scala and Java style usage of Akka and give the audience a 30k view of how it comes together. While this presentation is not interactive, all demos will be available on github for those that want to “play” along with their laptops.

Scala Koans - A new and fun way to learn a Scala programming language (Bring a Laptop)

9:00 AM MDT

Have you looked into Scala? Scala is a new object-functional JVM language. It is statically typed and type inferred. It is multi-paradigm and supports both object oriented and functional programming. And it happens to be my favorite programming language.

If you are interested in Scala, how you are planning to learn Scala? You probably are going to pick up a book or two and follow through some examples. And hopefully some point down the line you will learn the language, its syntax and if you get excited enough maybe build large applications using it. But what if I tell you that there is a better path to enlightenment in order to learn Scala?

Scala Koans, a set of test cases that will teach you Scala language. The Scala koans will help the audience learn the language, syntax and the structure of the language through test cases. It will also teach the functional programming and object oriented features of the language. Since learning is guided by failing tests it allows developers to think and play with the language while they are learning.

Scala Koans - A new and fun way to learn a Scala programming language (Bring a Laptop)

11:00 AM MDT

Have you looked into Scala? Scala is a new object-functional JVM language. It is statically typed and type inferred. It is multi-paradigm and supports both object oriented and functional programming. And it happens to be my favorite programming language.

If you are interested in Scala, how you are planning to learn Scala? You probably are going to pick up a book or two and follow through some examples. And hopefully some point down the line you will learn the language, its syntax and if you get excited enough maybe build large applications using it. But what if I tell you that there is a better path to enlightenment in order to learn Scala?

Scala Koans, a set of test cases that will teach you Scala language. The Scala koans will help the audience learn the language, syntax and the structure of the language through test cases. It will also teach the functional programming and object oriented features of the language. Since learning is guided by failing tests it allows developers to think and play with the language while they are learning.

Testing In Scala

1:30 PM MDT

Most introductory programming books include a chapter on testing, seemingly as an afterthought. For the test-driven developer, that's a little too late. Some programmers approach a new programming language with a few test-cases to understand a concept. Others thrive under fire and want to hit the ground running in a new programming language by creating an application.

It just so happens that testing code in Scala is a great way to learn Scala, but also really good at testing Java code. This presentation started a book on how to use some of the greatest tools that you can use to test. This presentation will cover ScalaTest, Specs2, ScalaMock and ScalaCheck all in a triggered execution environment using SBT. For those that do not wish to use SBT, we will cover other options as well. Using these tools you may never want to use those plain jane java testing frameworks ever again. While this presentation is not interactive, all demos will be available on github for those that want to “play” along with their laptops.

Making Java Bearable with Guava (2014 Edition)

3:15 PM MDT

This presentation covers the Guava library developed by Google (http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/). Guava provides collection extensions to the Java Collection API and, along with this, a cornucopia of time-saving utilities that bring Java as close as possible to some of the more functional and dynamic language competitors like Scala, Ruby, and Clojure.

This presentation focuses on the following topics: how to make Predicates and Functions; how to use new collection constructs that make life easier, including MultiMap, BiMaps, and MultiSets; how to set up and use Guava preconditions; and how to create truly immutable collections, and more. All of this is done with Java.

Personal Agility with the Pomodoro Technique

5:00 PM MDT

Time is very precious and is often threatened by phone calls, emails, co-workers, bosses, and most of all, yourself. The Pomodoro Technique reigns in unfocused time and gives your work the urgency and the attention it needs, and it's done with a kitchen timer.

In this presentation we discuss how to set up, estimate time, log time, deal with interruptions, and integrate with Agile as a team. We discuss timer software and even some of the great health benefits of the Pomodoro Technique.