WTIA: Hands on agile, effective software development-Developers SIG March 12, 2009

Many organizations are effectively using practices such as UML and Design Patterns in their software development, but are still not adequately addressing the customer's total cost of ownership and handling requirements changes. As a result, Agile software development methodologies have gained popularity, along with techniques such as Test-Driven Development. But the challenge is to bring it all together in order to write well-designed, flexible code that truly harnesses the power that OO promises.

Presenter Info:
Jay Rostosky entered the software industry in 1990, and has been involved in software development, pre- and post-sales technical support, consulting, courseware and curriculum development, and classroom training. In all of these areas, he has been able to quickly learn the applicable technologies and then help others "bridge the gap" so that they too can be more effective in their jobs. He has been working with Java since 1996.

His product and technology knowledge is extensive, including ORACLE and other relational databases (he worked at Oracle from 1990-5); several application servers, most notably IBM WebSphere and JBoss AS; frameworks such as EJB 2 and 3, Hibernate, and Struts. He is Java certified (SCJP) and JBoss certified, and has completed IBM WebSphere Administration training and taught the course several times.

nTier Training is a training company made up of talented, knowledgeable, enthusiastic instructors who have real world experience in coding. nTier Training offers a great variety of courses including Java, Hibernate, Spring, JBOSS, AJAX.

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