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James Ward

Developer Advocate, Typesafe

James Ward (www.jamesward.com) works for Typesafe where he teaches developers the Typesafe Stack (Play Framework, Scala, and Akka) . James frequently presents at conferences around the world such as JavaOne, Devoxx, and many other Java get-togethers. Along with Bruce Eckel, James co-authored First Steps in Flex. He has also published numerous screencasts, blogs, and technical articles. Starting with Pascal and Assembly in the 80′s, James found his passion for writing code. Beginning in the 90′s he began doing web development with HTML, Perl/CGI, then Java. After building a Flex and Java based customer service portal in 2004 for Pillar Data Systems he became a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe. In 2011 James became a Principal Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com where he taught developers how to deploy apps on the cloud with Heroku. James Tweets as @_JamesWard and posts code at github.com/jamesward.

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Auto-Refresh for Play Framework Apps

Posted Wednesday, 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 thmore »

Securing Single Page Apps and REST Services

Posted Monday, 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 fmore »

Intro to Play Framework at Boulder Area Scala Enthusiasts

Posted Monday, April 22, 2013

This Wednesday (April 24, 2013) I’ll be presenting an Intro to Play Framework at the Boulder Area Scala Enthusiasts meetup. Also, Dustin Whitney will be presenting an Intro to Scala. Hopefully see you in Boulmore »

Presentations

Featured Sessions

Neo4j Workshop - Getting started with a graph database

by Peter Bell
Neo4j is a NoSQL, graph database built specifically for enterprise Java projects (although you can also use the RESTful API from any language). In thi

NoSQL data modeling with Mongo and Neo4j

by Peter Bell
With NoSQL data stores you need to completely rethink how to model your data.

NoSQL Smackdown 2012

by Tim Berglund
Alternative databases continue to establish their role in the technology stack of the future—and for many, the technology stack of the present. Making

Apponomics

by Pratik Patel
You've got a great idea for a mobile app. You have a team together. You're building the killer app. Do you know enough about the various app stores to

Mobile Development Options 2013

by Pratik Patel
There's a bevy of options for developing mobile apps. If you're looking at cross-platform solutions, there's a multitude of options to choose from. In

Advanced JavaScript for Java Devs

by Pratik Patel
So you think you've picked up enough JavaScript to be dangerous, but feel like the whole prototypical language thing is still a mystery. In this sessi

Mobile Design Workshop

by Nathaniel Schutta
The word just came down from the VP - you need a mobile app and you need it yesterday. Wait, you've never built a mobile app...it's pretty much the sa

Backbone Workshop

by Nathaniel Schutta
You may have noticed today's web applications involve more than a few lines of JavaScript. You've probably also figured out JavaScript lacks certain..

Spock - Unit Test and Prosper

by Ken Sipe
Spock is a groovy based testing framework that leverages all the "best practices" of the last several years taking advantage of many of the developmen

MongoDB: Scaling Web Applications

by Ken Sipe
Google “MongoDB is Web Scale” and prepare to laugh your tail off. With such satire, it easy to pass off MongoDB as a passing joke… but that would be

Introduction to Google's Closure Tools

by Matt Stine
Closure Tools represents the open-sourcing of many of the tools used to build many of Google's rich web applications such as Gmail, Docs, Maps and Goo

Featured Speakers

Brian Sam-Bodden

Java author, Ruby geek and Open Source Advocate

Brian Sam-Bodden is an author, instructor, speaker and hacker that has spent over fifteen years crafting software systems. He holds dual bachelor degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University in computer science and physics and heads Integrallis http://www.integrallis.com. He is a frequent speaker at user groups and conferences nationally and abroad. Brian is the author of "Beginning POJOs: Spring, Hibernate, JBoss and Tapes..More »

Matt Stine

Enterprise Java/Cloud Consultant

Matt Stine is an Enterprise Java/Cloud consultant based in Memphis, TN. He is a twelve year veteran of the enterprise software and web development industries, with experience spanning the healthcare, biomedical research, e-commerce, and retail store domains. Matt has spoken at conferences ranging from JavaOne to CodeMash and has published several articles for Agile Zone, GroovyMag and NFJS the Magazine, as well as..More »

Kenneth Kousen

Author of "Making Java Groovy"

Ken Kousen is the President of Kousen IT, Inc., through which he does technical training, mentoring, and consulting in all areas of Java and XML. He is the author of the O'Reilly screencast "Up and Running Groovy", and the upcoming Manning book about Java/Groovy integration, entitled "Making Java Groovy". He has been a tech reviewer for several books on software development. Over the past decade he's taught thou..More »

Connie Finkelman

Front-end Experience Architect

Connie has been developing websites for over fifteen years and is currently the lead UI developer for Office Depot's websites and mobile apps, where her work on their recently launched mobile website garnered it a perfect score for reliability and speed. Before joining Office Depot's team, she developed websites for Razorfish clients including Coca-Cola and AT&T. Connie has developed enterprise websites in languages ..More »

Aaron Frost

Front End Junkie, Wannabe Author, Aspiring Designer

I've spent the last several years swimming (at times sinking) in the Front End waters. Finding JS and CSS/HTML was the best thing that could have happened to me. By day I am a project member on a team that is building a mobile web app for over 50,000 servicemen and servicewomen worldwide. By night I am working with O'Reilly Media and Steve Olson, and we are writing the book 'JS.Next: ES6', which should be out towards..More »

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