Agile Adversity

Excerpt from Secretly Nimble: Apple’s agile product development

quote from Pixar :

“Our movies are never ‘done’, what gets released is just a snapshot in time.”

Chennai Java Summit 2011 - Coverage

Key Things from Summit 

• Over-look on JVM Languages around Java
• Using the best language suiting your specific needs
• Java can be improved, if you want through JCP

Day 1 - Fantom , JRuby, Mirah, Weaver FX, TDD and BDD
Day 2 - Groovy and Grails, Integrating JVM languagues, JCP & Contribution
Date - 16 & 17, April 2011
Speakers - http://jugchennai.in/chennaijavasummit/speakers.php


Day 1 :
Fantom -  Kaushik_Sathupadi

• One of JVM languages
• Developer friendly compiler
• Slide Presented :  

Web Scale Computing and NoSQL  - Mani

• Programming = Process + Data
• Need for Scalability - Scale up Vs Scale out
• NoSql => Pessimistic concurrency in Distributed DB's
• Suggested DB's to scale : BigTable, Cassandra

Mirah - Senthilnayagam

• Ruby-inspired JVM language 
• Calls for contribution on Book on Mirah

JRuby  - Vagmi

• Ruby flavour Language on JVM
• Slide Presented :  

WeaverFX - Veerendra


Test Driven Development and Behaviour Driven Development - Venkatesh and Rajesh

• Emphasize on Requirement Understanding & Delivery
• Unit test tools - (Cucumber)
• mock test tools - ( Easy mock )

Day 2 :
Groovy and Grails - Scott

• Ultimate integration with Java code
• Coding with Groovy is lot simpler 
• Groovy has active development cycle
• Grails - scaffolding magic 
• Tip - javap command - byte code to java code
• FreeBook on "Getting Started on Groovy" by Scott
• Video by Venkat (not from meetup)

Integrating JVM languages - Venkat

• Advantage - Harness power of Multiple languages
• Integration of all JVM languages works most of the time
• The uncommon problems in integration explained

Open Discussion  

• Emphasize on Principles ( Don't Repeat Yourself, Single Responsiblity unit ) rather than Frameworks ( Struts etc )
• Have knowledge one layer behind abstraction 

JCP & Contribution to Java - Werner
Video From JCP Chairman



Caution : Details provided here are as understood by me. Some external resources too included for easier understanding.


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Tamil Weekly-'புதிய தலைமுறை'

Are you looking for a Tamil weekly magazine that is worth reading.It's one below.

Title : "புதிய தலைமுறை" 

What do I like in this Weekly ?

1. Discussions are solution centralised
2. No explicit political drama higlighted
3. True spirit of Contributing to society

Hope this is useful,

Arun

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