Howard Lewis Ship

Howard Lewis Ship
President, TWD Consulting

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Howard Lewis Ship cut his teeth writing customer support software in PL/1. He made the jump to Object Oriented programming via NeXTSTEP and Objective-C before transitioning to Java. He began work on Tapestry in early 2000, and is currently working on Apache Tapestry 5.2.

Howard is respected in the Java community as an expert on web application development, dependency injection, Java meta-programming, and development productivity. He is a frequent speaker at JavaOne, NoFluffJustStuff, ApacheCon and other conferences, and the author of “Tapestry in Action” for Manning (covering Tapestry 3.0).

Howard is an independent consulting, specializing in Tapestry and Clojure training, mentoring and project work. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Suzanne, a novelist.

Sessions

10:40am Wednesday, 07/21/2010
Arduino: Open Source Hardware Hacking from the Software Nerd Perspective
Hardware
 Location: D135
Tags: arduino, hardware
Howard Lewis Ship (TWD Consulting)
Average rating: ***..
(3.83, 18 ratings)
Even if you are successful using open source sofware, there's something special about hardware: It's physical. You can touch it. You build it (not compile it). This is a talk about the Arduino open source physical computing platform; a cheap, useful, fun micro-controller ... and it's loads of fun, even if you break into a cold sweat at the thought of picking up a soldering iron. Read more.
4:30pm Wednesday, 07/21/2010
Practical Clojure Programming
Java
 Location: D137
Tags: clojure, build, ide, plugin
Howard Lewis Ship (TWD Consulting)
Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 12 ratings)
Aside from learning Clojure's syntax and approach to functional programming and concurrency, there's also the more mundane issues: What editor do I use? How to I build large projects? How do I share my work with others? This session will discuss IDEs and plugins, command line build tools, and web sites. Read more.
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