[Clev-jug] Last Call...Join Us for the 2006 Central Ohio Software Symposium returning to Columbus on May 19-21st

[Jay Zimmerman]

You still have time...Join us this weekend for the 2006 Central Ohio 
Software Symposium returning to Columbus. Five concurrent sessions, over 
fifty total sessions, great speakers and offered right here in Columbus! 
What more could we ask for...

Here are the details:

Event: Central Ohio Software Symposium 2006 
(www.nofluffjuststuff.com/sh/2006-05-columbus)
Dates: May 19-21, 2006
Venue: Columbus Marriott North
Price: $825/person - $50 JUG discount available (use promo code, 
nfjsusergroup50 when registering)
Group pricing available - go to 
www.nofluffjuststuff.com/sh/2006-05-columbus for details....

Speakers/Topics include...

Bruce Tate
Bruce Tate is a father, kayaker, author and independent consultant in 
Austin, Tx. He worked for 13 years at IBM, in roles ranging from a 
database systems programmer to Java consultant. He left IBM to work for 
several startups in roles ranging from director to CTO. He now is 
building his own consulting practice, with emphasis on lightweight 
development in Java and Ruby, and persistence strategies. He is the 
author of six books, including the best selling Bitter series, the 
Jolt-winning Better, Faster, Lighter Java, and the Spring Developer's 
Notebook.
Current Topic(s): Where Agile meets Argyle: New processes in established 
companies , What's New in Spring 2 , Politics of Persistence , Three 
Technologies to Watch , Effective Teams: The dirty little secret

David Geary
A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique 
qualification as a Java expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both 
Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces (JSF). David's 
Graphic Java Swing was one of the best-selling Java books of all time 
and Core JSF, which David wrote with Cay Horstman, is the best-selling 
book on JavaServer Faces.

David was one of a handful of experts on the JSF Expert Group that 
actively defined the standard Java-based web application framework. 
Besides serving on the JSF and JSTL Expert Groups, David has contributed 
to open-source projects and co-authored Sun's Web Developer 
Certification Exam. He invented the Struts Template library which was 
the precursor to Tiles, a popular framework for composing web pages from 
JSP fragments, was the 2nd Struts committer and is currently an active 
contributor to Shale. David also provides consulting and training 
services for server-side Java and Ruby on Rails.

A regular on the NFJS tour, David also speaks at other conferences such 
as JavaOne and JavaPolis. In 2005, David was awarded a Top Speaker award 
at JavaOne for his Shale presentation with Craig McClanahan.

At NFJS, David loves to interact with attendees and is known for his 
sense of humor, dazzling demos and electrifying live-coding sessions.
Current Topic(s): Ajaxian Faces , Killer Web UIs , Shale: Turbo-charge 
your JSF Apps , JavaServer Faces: A Whirlwind Tour , JSF: State of the Art

Glenn Vanderburg
Glenn Vanderburg is an independent consultant focused on cutting-edge 
software development technologies and techniques, including Ruby, 
JavaScript, Ajax, and state-of-the-art development practices.
Current Topic(s): Java Performance Myths , JavaScript Exposed: There's a 
Real Programming Language in There! (Part 2) , Java Collections Power 
Techniques , JavaScript Exposed: There's a Real Programming Language in 
There! (Part 1) , Modern Project Infrastructures

Jared Richardson
Jared Richardson, co-author of "Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful 
Software Projects", is a developer-turned-manager who thinks a good day 
is having everything delegated so that he can sneak away and actually 
write code. He specializes in using off-the-shelf technologies to solve 
tough problems, especially those involving the software development 
process. With more than 10 years of experience, Jared has been a 
consultant, developer, tester, and manager, including Director of 
Development at several companies. He currently manages a team of 
developers and testers at SAS Inc., and is responsible for a 
company-wide effort to increase the use of test automation to improve 
the quality of SAS products.
Current Topic(s): Software Tools That Make Life Easier: Part Two , 
Pragmatic Tracer Bullets , Software Development Techniques , Software 
Tools That Make Life Easier: Part One

Justin Gehtland
Justin is the co-founder of Relevance, a consulting/training/research 
organization located in the Research Triangle of North Carolina. Justin 
has been developing applications with static and dynamic languages since 
1992. He has written code with Java, .NET, C#, Visual Basic, Perl, 
Python and Ruby. He loves to talk, especially in front of people, but 
all by himself in the corner if he must. Justin is currently focused on: 
Rails (because its the law), Spring (because Java isn't going anywhere) 
and security (because paranoia is your friend).
Current Topic(s): Ajax Architecture , Spring Dependency Injection , Java 
Platform Security and JAAS , Advanced Hibernate , Introduction to 
Hibernate , Spring Security with ACEGI , Spring Intro

Kirk Knoernschild
Kirk is Chief Technology Strategist at QWANtify, where he leads based on 
his firm belief in the pragmatic use of technology. In addition to his 
work on large development projects, Kirk shares his experiences through 
courseware development, teaching, writing, and speaking at seminars and 
conferences. Kirk has provided training to thousands of software 
professionals, teaching courses on UML, Java J2EE technology, 
object-oriented development, component based development, software 
architecture, and software process.

As CTS at QWANtify, Kirk works with clients and peers to develop high 
quality software that solves real business challenges. In addition to 
spending a good share of his time on projects, Kirk’s role typically 
involves mentoring other developers on proven coding and design 
techniques, and driving QWANtify's technology vision. He intimately 
understands the software lifecycle, and has applied many best practices 
espoused by industry proven agile methodologies, such as the Rational 
Unified Process and Extreme Programming.

Kirk is the author Java Design: Objects, UML, and Process, published in 
2002 by Addison-Wesley. He frequently contributes to various technical 
publications, and actively updates his personal website, with new 
articles and whitepapers on a variety of software development topics. He 
is also the founder of Extensible Java, a growing resource of design 
pattern heuristics in Java.
Current Topic(s): Benefits of the Build - A Case Study in Continuous 
Integration , From Code to Architecture , GOF Patterns Applied , 
Dependency Management Techniques

Mark Richards
William Mark Richards (Mark) is Certified Senior IT Architect at IBM, 
where he is involved in the architecture and design of large-scale 
Service Oriented Architectures in J2EE and other technologies, primarily 
in the financial services industry. He has been involved in the software 
industry as a developer, designer, and architect since 1984, and has 
significant experience and expertise in J2EE architecture and 
development, Object-oriented design and development, and systems 
integration. Mark served as the President of the Boston Java User Group 
in 1997 and 1998, and the President of the New England Java Users Group 
from 1999 thru 2003. He is the author of the upcoming book "Java 
Transaction Design Strategies", contributing author of the upcoming book 
"NFJS Anthology 2006 Edition", and contributing author of the Java 
Coding Standards book produced by the Nejug. Mark is an IBM Certified 
Application Architect, Sun Certified J2EE Business Component Developer, 
a Sun Certified J2EE Enterprise Architect, a Sun Certified Java 
Programmer, a BEA WebLogic Certified Developer, a Certified Java 
Instructor, and holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Boston 
University. He is a regular conference speaker at the No Fluff Just 
Stuff Symposium Series and has spoken at several conferences and user 
groups around the country, including the Boston Java Users Group, New 
England Java Users Group, and Maine Java Users Group. When he is not 
working Mark can usually be found hiking with his wife and two daughters 
in the White Mountains or along the Appalachian Trail.
Current Topic(s): Java EE Command Pattern Architecture , EJB 3 Part 2: 
Java Persistence API (JPA) , Understanding the Role of an ESB , EJB 3 
Part 1: Core Spec and Spring Comparison

Neal Ford
Neal Ford is an Application Architect for ThoughtWorks. He is an 
architect, designer, and developer of applications, instructional 
materials, magazine articles, and video/DVD presentations. Neal is also 
the author of Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques 
(Prentice Hall PTR, 1996), JBuilder 3 Unleashed (SAMS Publishing, 1999), 
and Art of Java Web Development (Manning, 2003). His language 
proficiencies include Java, C#/.NET, Ruby, Object Pascal, C++, and C. 
Neal’s primary consulting focus is the design and construction of 
large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally 
acclaimed speaker, having spoken at over 30 developers’ conferences 
worldwide.
Current Topic(s): Pragmatic Extreme Programming Part 2: Architecture, 
Coding, and Testing , Web Application Security Vulnerabilities , 
Introduction to Tapestry , Pragmatic Extreme Programming Part 1: 
Planning & Design , Real-world Agile Development , Testing with Selenium 
, The Productive Programmer

Ramnivas Laddad
Ramnivas Laddad is an author, speaker, consultant, and trainer 
specializing in aspect-oriented programming and J2EE. His most recent 
book, "AspectJ in Action: Practical aspect-oriented programming" 
(Manning, 2003), has been labeled as the most useful guide to 
AOP/AspectJ. He has been developing complex software systems using 
technologies such as Java, J2EE, AspectJ, UML, networking, and XML for 
over a decade. Ramnivas is an active member of the AspectJ community and 
has been involved with aspect-oriented programming from its early form. 
He speaks regularly at many conferences such as No Fluff Just Stuff, 
JavaOne, JavaPolis, Software Development, EclipseCon, and O'Reilly 
OSCON. Ramnivas lives in San Jose, California.
Current Topic(s): Testing Strategies for Web Applications , Enterprise 
AOP with AspectJ , Spring AOP in Depth , The State of AOP , Performance 
Monitoring in J2EE Applications

Venkat Subramaniam
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained 
and mentored more than 3000 software developers in the US, Canada, and 
Europe. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with 
agile practices on their software projects, and speaks frequently at 
conferences. Venkat is also an adjunct professor for the practice of 
computer science at University of Houston and teaches at Rice University 
School for Continuing Studies. He is author of ".NET Gotchas" (O'Reilly) 
and coauthor of "Practices of an Agile Developer" (Pragmatic Programmers).
Current Topic(s): Practices of an Agile Developer , Working with Rules 
Engines , Open Source Tools for Agile Development , Portal Standards and 
implementation , Refactoring your code - a key step in agility


I hope to see you there!


All the Best,

Jay Zimmerman
NFJS 2006 Symposium Director
jzimmerman at nofluffjuststuff.com