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Christopher Judd

Christopher Judd
   

CTO of Manifest Solutions

Christopher Judd is CTO and partner at Manifest Solutions (http://www.manifestcorp.com), an international speaker, Java Champion, an open source evangelist, and the Central Ohio Java Users Group (http://www.cojug.org) leader.  He is an accomplished writer having co-authored Beginning Groovy and Grails (Apress, 2008), Enterprise Java Development on a Budget (Apress, 2003) and Pro Eclipse JST (Apress, 2005) as well as the author of the children’s book “Bearable Moments”.  Based in Columbus Ohio, he has spent over 20 years architecting and developing software for organizations ranging from Fortune 50 companies to start-ups across various industries including insurance, health care, education, retail, government, manufacturing, service, and transportation.  Mr. Judd spends most of his time consulting while continuing to focus on mentoring and training in Java, mobile and related technologies.

Presentations

Hacking & Hardening Java Web Applications

1:00 PM MDT

It seems like everyday there is a new headline about a security breach in a major company’s web application. These breaches cause companies to lose their credibility and cost them large sums of money. Security is everybody’s job and requires us to be proactive.

This hands-on workshop is designed to teach you how to identify, exploit (legally) and fix vulnerabilities in modern Java web applications. Using an existing web application, you will learn ways to scan and test for common vulnerabilities using common penetration testing tools. You will learn about OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities such as hijacking, injection, cross-site scripting, cross-site forgery and more. You will learn best practices around logging, error handling, intrusion detection, authentication and authorization. You will also learn how to improve security in your applications using existing libraries, frameworks and techniques to patch and prevent vulnerabilities making your software safer.

Hacking & Hardening Java Web Applications

3:00 PM MDT

It seems like everyday there is a new headline about a security breach in a major company’s web application. These breaches cause companies to lose their credibility and cost them large sums of money. Security is everybody’s job and requires us to be proactive.

This hands-on workshop is designed to teach you how to identify, exploit (legally) and fix vulnerabilities in modern Java web applications. Using an existing web application, you will learn ways to scan and test for common vulnerabilities using common penetration testing tools. You will learn about OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities such as hijacking, injection, cross-site scripting, cross-site forgery and more. You will learn best practices around logging, error handling, intrusion detection, authentication and authorization. You will also learn how to improve security in your applications using existing libraries, frameworks and techniques to patch and prevent vulnerabilities making your software safer.

Enterprise Observability with Trace Context & OpenTelemetry

5:00 PM MDT

Enterprise applications are complex. A transaction starting in the browser will go through proxies, api gateways, security appliances, application performance monitoring tools, logs, microservices and more microservices. Historically there has been no standard way to get observability and traceability between all the enterprise components. Each product and framework has it's own proprietary way of identifying a transaction making it difficult if not impossible to stitch together a complete picture of a transaction. This is changing with the introduction of the W3C Trace Context standard and the open source initiative of OpenTelemetry.

In this session, you will learn how using Trace Context, OpenTelemetry and other open source and commercial products can improve your observability to help you better triage production issues, improve performance, be proactive and make your users happier.

Achieve Goals with SMART WINS

7:30 PM MDT

Everyone wants to be successful in life. Many have found the SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant & time boxed) goal setting framework to be a powerful tool to help clarify and validate their goals. Unfortunately having well defined goals is not enough to obtain them. This is where WINS (write, incentivize, network & share) comes in.

In this session, you will learn how to become more successful by putting goals into action with SMART WINS.

Modern Java Unit Testing and Mocking Workshop

9:00 AM MDT

I know what you are thinking. Another unit testing presentation/workshop? That is so early 2000s. But a lot has changed if you haven't been keeping up with the unit testing space recently. Frameworks such as Junit 5 and Mockito 3 have been updated significantly. New programming styles such as lamdas and reactive are becoming mainstream, changing how we test our code. We also have new frameworks for integration testing, such as Testcontainer.

Whether you're a unit testing veteran or a newbie, this hands-on workshop will give you the experience and confidence necessary to write unit tests today.

Modern Java Unit Testing and Mocking Workshop

11:00 AM MDT

I know what you are thinking. Another unit testing presentation/workshop? That is so early 2000s. But a lot has changed if you haven't been keeping up with the unit testing space recently. Frameworks such as Junit 5 and Mockito 3 have been updated significantly. New programming styles such as lamdas and reactive are becoming mainstream, changing how we test our code. We also have new frameworks for integration testing, such as Testcontainer.

Whether you're a unit testing veteran or a newbie, this hands-on workshop will give you the experience and confidence necessary to write unit tests today.