Neal Ford

Neal Ford
meme wrangler, ThoughtWorks

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Neal Ford is Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, and author and/or editor of 6 books spanning a variety of technologies, including the most recent The Productive Programmer. He focuses on designing and building of large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, speaking at over 100 developer conferences worldwide, delivering more than 600 talks. Check out his web site at http://www.nealford.com. He welcomes feedback and can be reached at nford@thoughtworks.com.

Sessions

8:30am Monday, 07/20/2009
Introduction to JRuby
Java, Ruby
 Location: Ballroom A2
Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks)
Average rating: ***..
(3.80, 5 ratings)
JRuby is Ruby on the Java Platform, so it brings the advantages of Ruby to the JVM and the advantages of Java to Ruby. This session shows Ruby syntax and lots of integration techniques with Java, including building Swing-based UI's using Swiby and how to unit test Java code with JRuby. Read more.
5:20pm Thursday, 07/23/2009
"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages
Java, Programming, Ruby
 Location: Meeting Room J1/J4
Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks)
Average rating: ****.
(4.11, 9 ratings)
Design patterns describe common problems in software development, but many people believe that the GoF book demonstrates the best ways to implement these patterns. Dynamic languages provide more facilities than C++ or Java; this session shows alternative implementations of design patterns using dynamic languages (Ruby and Groovy). Read more.
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  • Sun Microsystems
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  • Kaltura
  • Liferay
  • MindTouch
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  • Novell, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
  • Rackspace Cloud
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • Symbian Foundation
  • Twilio
  • WSO2
  • Yabarana Corporation

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