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NFJS One - Training, Consulting, Mentoring

Keith Donald

SpringSource Principal & Founding Partner

Keith Donald is a principal and founding partner at SpringSource, the company behind Spring and a division of VMware. At SpringSource, Keith is a full-time member of the Spring development team focusing on web application development productivity. He is also the architect behind SpringSource's state-of-the-art training curriculum, which has provided practical Spring training to over 10,000 students worldwide.

Over his career, Keith, an experienced enterprise software developer and mentor, has built business applications for customers spanning a diverse set of industries including banking, network management, information assurance, education, retail, and healthcare. He is particularly skilled at translating business requirements into technical solutions.

Presentations

Extreme Web Productivity with Spring Roo

Spring Roo, a new and innovative developer productivity tool, delivers outstanding productivity gains to any class of Java application, and in particular Java web applications built on the proven Spring stack. In seconds you can effortlessly add web capabilities to your enterprise applications, including RESTful MVC backends, Selenium-powered integration tests, Security, Web Flow, Ajax, and Flex. Join Keith Donald - founding member of the Spring Team - to discover more about these killer productivity features.

During this session Keith will develop an enterprise application from scratch, and then progressively explore and fine-tune its web tier. You'll discover how easy it is to add custom Controllers, change the look and feel, scaffold views, integrate RIA technologies such as Flex, and more.

Attendees will leave this session with a comprehensive understanding of the Spring Roo web productivity capabilities, and how they can be applied to your own projects.

Featured Sessions

JavaScript Beyond the Basics

by Nathaniel Schutta
JavaScript is one of the most widely used languages around and yet its also one of the most misunderstood. With Ajaxified UIs becoming the norm, this

Deconstructing Prototype

by Nathaniel Schutta
By now, most developers have (re)discovered the much maligned JavaScript language and the plethora of top notch libraries have helped make this grey b

Testing the Web Layer

by Nathaniel Schutta
While your project might have nearly 100% code coverage on the server tier, many projects ignore testing the web layer. With more and more code being

Ajax Library Smack down: Prototype vs. jQuery

by Nathaniel Schutta
Ajax is everywhere, from the local newspaper to sites that the CEO surfs. Contrary to popular belief, it isn't rocket science, especially with the rig

REST : Information-Driven Architectures for the 21st Century

by Brian Sletten
There is a shift going on in the Enterprise. While still used and useful, the promises of the SOAP/WSDL/UDDI Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) stack

RDFA : Weaving Richness and Meaning in the Web

by Brian Sletten
The human web is reasonably well in hand by now. We are getting pretty good at building systems that people find valuable and entertaining. We have no

Web 2.0 Checklist: Deconstructing Modern Websites

by Scott Davis
"The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned." (Antonio Gramsci) There are plenty of sarcastic "Web 2.

GWT fu, Part 2

by David Geary
Learn to do amazing stuff with GWT.

CSS for Developers

by Molly Holzschlag
While CSS might be the Web's Lingua Franca of presentation and design, it's the Front End Developer who finds that he or she has to optimize CSS docum

HTML5 Killed XHTML2 (and the Mysterious Future of Markup)

by Molly Holzschlag
It's late 2009. A deep silence runs through the hallowed halls of the W3C. I slip into a stairwell and watch through the window as the well-formed cor

Web Standards for Web Applications: Half Day Seminar

by Molly Holzschlag
For many years the web standards movement focused its energies on best practices for web sites. Few of us, if any, could have foreseen the rapid emerg

Featured Speakers

Brian Sletten

Forward Leaning Software Engineer

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on using and evangelizing forward-leaning technologies. He has a background as a system architect, a developer, a security consultant, a mentor, a team lead, an author and a trainer and operates in all of those roles as needed. His experience has spanned the online game, defense, finance, academic, hospitality, retail and commercial domains. He ..More »

Torrey Rice

Director of User Experience @ Sitepen

As Director of User Experience and the first employee of SitePen, Torrey oversees all UI and visual design and has been at the core of SitePen's success since the beginning. Self-taught, Torrey has a keen understanding of both development and interaction design. His ability to assess and design for technical limitations makes him an invaluable asset to the SitePen team. Torrey's previous stints include work with Renk..More »

Richard Worth

Sr. Developer of jQuery UI

Richard D. Worth is a UI developer in the Washington, DC area. He is one of the lead developers of jQuery UI, a component framework built on top of jQuery, designed to make Rich Internet Applications as simple as jQuery has made Ajax. Richard is also a co-author of the upcoming book 'jQuery Cookbook'. More »

David Geary

Author of Graphic Java, co-author of Core JSF, member of the JSF Expert Group

David Geary is the president of Clarity Training, Inc. (corewebdevelopment.com), where he teaches developers to implement web applications using JavaServer Faces (JSF) and the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique qualification as a Java expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces. David's Graphic Java S..More »

Molly Holzschlag

Web Standards Evangelist

Earlier in life, Molly avoided a regular job including those silly start-up ventures and chose instead to write a lot of books and articles and stuff on Web standards, and talk a lot about them, too. She now avoids the former, while the latter is an ongoing inevitability. To learn more about Molly and her work, you can check out her blog at http://molly.com/ or interact with her on Twitter @mollydotcom. Better ye..More »

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