Speakers

James Ward

Principal Developer Evangelist, Heroku

James Ward (www.jamesward.com) is a Principal Developer Evangelist at Heroku. Today he focuses on teaching developers how to deploy Java, Play! and Scala apps to the cloud. 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. You can find him tweeting as @_JamesWard, answering questions on StackOverflow.com and posting code at github.com/jamesward.

Blog

Graphs in the Cloud: Spring + Neo4j on Heroku

Posted Monday, May 14, 2012

Last week I hosted a webinar about running Java apps on Heroku that use the Spring Framework and the Neo4j graph database. Here is the recording of that webinar: In the webinar I began by deploying a copy of the Spring MVC + Hibernate template app fromore »

Play 2 Java Tutorial

Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2012

I’ve created a Play 2 Tutorial and posted it on GitHub! The tutorial covers how to: Create a Play App Set up an IDE Start the Play Server Routes Test a Route Update a Controller Test a Controller Update a View Test a View Deploy your app on the more »

Heroku, Java, Play and Neo4j Presos: Denver JUG, Atlanta JUG, London Flash UG & Webinar

Posted Monday, May 7, 2012

Over the next couple weeks I’ll be doing two Java User Group presentations, a Flash Platform User Group presentation and one Webinar. Hope to see you at one of these events: Wednesday May 9 – Denver Java User Group: Running Java, Play! andmore »