Pure Danger Tech


navigation
home

Omaha bound…

02 Apr 2008

I’ll be speaking at the Greater Nebraska Software Symposium this weekend as part of the No Fluff tour. If you’re in Omaha, I hope to see you there!

I’m doing five talks:

  • Java Collections API – an overview of the Java Collections library, especially the new collections added in Java 5 and 6 – queues, deques, concurrent stuff, etc.
  • Exploring Terracotta – this is a broad overview of what Terracotta, how it works, and where it’s useful with a lot of examples.
  • Cluster Your Cache with Terracotta and Hibernate – this talk focuses on a couple specific ways that you can leverage the great things about both Terracotta and Hibernate together to take the load off your database and increase scalability.
  • Design Patterns Reconsidered – this talk examines how design patterns are used (and abused) with a particular focus on some common patterns like Singleton, Template Method, Visitor, and Proxy.
  • Java Concurrency Idioms – a brand new talk about Java concurrency idioms in three general areas: access to shared state, signaling and coordination, and work processing.

I’m probably most excited about the concurrency talk as it’s the first time I’ve had a chance to do it and I’ve been working on it off and on since January.

Hope to see you there!