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Dan Allen
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Author and Open Source Advocate
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!
Bake better websites together on GitHub
Did you know GitHub can be a publishing platform? That a blog entry can be posted via a pull request?
Static is the new dynamic and git is the new way to collaborate. Learn how to use site-baking tools such as Awestruct and Jekyll to build and publish static websites and leverage the ever increasing capabilities of HTML5-based browsers to make your site more dynamic than ever before.
Static is the new dynamic. With the ever increasing capabilities of HTML5-based browsers, we can give the server a rest and put security problems behind us by publishing static HTML5 documents and shifting the dynamic behavior to the client. Not only does that let you blog out of static hosting sites like github pages, it also means you can put more processing power into the author tools.
In this session, you'll be introduced to Awestruct and Jekyll, Ruby-based tools for building and publishing static websites. You'll discover how you can leverage a wide range of lightweight markups languages and DSLs such as HAML, AsciiDoc, Markdown, SASS and CoffeeScript to keep your source terse and DRY. We'll use an extension pipeline to setup a blog, add comments to your site or add analytic tracking scripts to your pages, then build and publish the site to GitHub pages in a single command. Just because the pages are static doesn't mean they can't be dynamic too.
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.
Price: $30.13
You Save: $14.86 (33%)
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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.
