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Chris Aniszczyk
Chris is an Eclipse committer at IBM Lotus who focuses on OSGi-related development. His primary focus these days is improving Eclipse\'s Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) and spreading the Eclipse love inside of IBM\'s Lotus organization. Chris lives and breathes Eclipse through evangelizing about Eclipse in his blog (and various other publications). He also regularly attends conferences and universities to give presentations about Eclipse. He is a committer on three Eclipse projects: PDE, ECF, EMFT. In the Eclipse community, Chris is responsible for maintaining the public forum known as PlanetEclipse and growing Eclipse's IRC presence.
 | An Introduction to the embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP) |
 | Fundamentals of Eclipse Plug-in and RCP Development |
Soumen Chatterjee
Soumen Chatterjee is a TOGAF Certified Practitioner, Sun Certified
Enterprise Architect and IBM Certified Specialist in RUP. With his
expertise in enterprise architectural methodologies, process development
techniques and testing strategies, he has served several leading-edge
software service organizations. He is a regular columnist of a special
enterprise column, called MDA Radar, where he discusses MDA, Enterprise
Architecture and modeling. He is a contributor to GERAM and TOGAF
Enterprise Architecture Framework. He has published several technical
papers in international conferences, architecting journal and Internet
based publication portals. He is an admirer of agile methodology and has
primary interests in EA, MDA, AOP and EAI. Soumen is a member of the IEEE,
IEEE Standards, ACM, Information Systems Audit and Control Association
(ISACA), IASA and the WWISA. He holds a Masters in Information
Technology. He is currently working as a Enterprise Architect for a
leading global IT consulting company.
Neelan Choksi
As Vice President of Interface21, Neelan Choksi focuses on growing the company’s business in the Americas and broadening the company’s product and service portfolio around the popular Spring Framework. Choksi has spoken extensively about the business of open source and about entrepreneurship at a variety of events including the keynote at 2006 The Spring Experience, OSCON, BEAWorld San Francisco, South By Southwest Interactive, and a variety of other events. A graduate of MIT and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Choksi is a successful entrepreneur with a strong track record of commercial success, most recently as the founder and President of SolarMetric, which was acquired by BEA Systems (NASDAQ: BEAS) in 2005. At BEA, Choksi was instrumental in the open sourcing of Kodo as OpenJPA. Prior to that, he worked for Andersen Consulting Strategic Services, Exxon Research & Engineering and the often-publicized MIT Blackjack team.
| An Open Source Agnostic's View from the Inside |
| You Can't Buy an Open Source Community |
Bryan Cheung
Bryan Cheung is the CEO and a co-founder of Liferay, Inc. Bryan believes that successful open source communities develop better software more quickly than traditional models and can provide unique solutions to corporations, non-profit organizations, and the government and education sectors. He has spoken about open source issues most recently at CeBIT 2007 and at the 2006 Openmind Conference in Finland, where he proposed that open source maximizes ROG (return on giving). Bryan has also recently focused on streamlining Liferay's content management capabilities, designing a new system for tag-driven content publishing and pushing for innovative collaboration capabilities in the Liferay portal framework.
Check out his web site at http://www.liferay.com/.
| Leveraging SOA and ESB for an Enterprise Architecture |
Brian Chan
Brian Chan is the Chief Software Architect and founder of Liferay. He began work on Liferay Portal in 2000 and nurtured it to become the most popular open source Java EE portal today. Brian is passionate about elegant and innovative software design and incorporates the best technologies into the portal framework. He is particularly committed to the work of portals to bring together social communities, and has deployed pro-bono portals for many non-profit organizations. Brian's thought leadership earned him a seat on the committee for JSR 286, the next portlet container specification. Brian holds a B.S. in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Chicago.
Check out his web site at http://www.liferay.com/.
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JSR 286: The New Portlet API |
| Why Java Kicks the Crap Out of PHP and RubyI |
Hui Cao
Hui Cao is a staff software engineer at Sybase R&D Center located in Shanghai, China, leading a team working on Database Development Tooling project, which is a part of Sybase WorkSpace(R) product-- an Eclipse based SOA IDE. Hui has seven years of software industry experiences using Java and Eclipse, with the certification of Enterprise Architect for J2EE from Sun. He is a committer of the Eclipse DTP (Data Tools Platform) SQL Dev Tools project and has spoken at EclipseCon 2006 about DTP.
| Data Tools Platform (DTP) project – SQL Development in Eclipse |
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Eclipse DTP – Extending the Frameworks Using Enablement Project |
Leigh Costin
Leigh Costin is responsible for the positioning, messaging, launching and market analysis of Blue Coat’s products and services for the Asia Pacific region. Leigh has over 20-years experience covering product support, management, marketing and delivery across the Asia Pacific region. Leigh has most recently managing technical marketing for Cleartext, a specialist IT Security Services Company. Prior roles included Director of Technical Marketing for the Asia Pacific region for Fortinet, a provider of hardware based integrated gateway solutions, and also Group Product Manager for the integrated security appliance group of Symantec Asia Pacific. Earlier in his career, Leigh held senior technical roles focusing on network design and delivery with Symantec, Data General, Groupe Bull and Honeywell Information Systems. Interests include; scuba diving, Sci-fi and surfing (badly).
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Secure and Optimized Multi-Protocol Application Delivery |
PCP Bhatt
Prof. PCP Bhatt is retired Chairman of the Computer Science Dept of IIT Delhi (after a long distinguished service). Bhatt further served as faculty at IIIT Bangalore and is now a visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). During his career he has extensively taught at universities in Canada, Japan & Germany. He is very active in the area of architecture and SOA and has been a Consultant to several IT companies in Bangalore, including Accenture, IBM, Satyam, Philips Software, Agere, Softgin, and so on.
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SOA Panel Moderation |
Neal Ford
Neal Ford is a senior application architect at ThoughtWorks. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, and author of the books Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques, JBuilder 3 Unleashed, and Art of Java Web Development. He is also the editor and a contributor to No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology : The 2006 Edition and No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology Volume 2: The 2007 Edition. His primary consulting focus is the building of large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at numerous developer conferences worldwide. Check out his web site at http://www.nealford.com.
| 10 Ways to Improve Your Code |
| Why is Everyone So Excited About Ruby on Rails? |
| Polyglot Programming |
| Testing with Selenium |
| SOA: The Future of Distributed Computing? |
Bjorn Freeman-Benson
Bjorn is the Director for Open Source Process at the Eclipse Foundation, a position that is tailor-made for someone with his keen interest and experience in building high-quality software with geographically distributed teams. He has dabbled in applications and user interfaces, but returns, like the swallows to San Juan Capistrano, to his three foci: hardware, software, and process (embedded devices, programming languages, and software engineering). Bjorn has worked for OTI, Amazon.com, Rational, and Gemstone, along with a career as a university professor. He has an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington, and is happy to talk at length about his passion for orienteering and/or his love of flying.
| Test First Development Using Eclipse |
Thilo Frotscher
Thilo Frotscher is a software architect specialized in Enterprise Java, Web services and XML. Working as a freelancer, Thilo spends most of the year contributing to the projects of his international clients, as an architect, senior developer and consultant. He also delivers training, teaching both Java and Web Service technology. Thilo is a frequent speaker at international technical conferences, and has written numerous articles for software development magazines. He is one of four authors of the German book "Java Web Services with Apache Axis" and is currently working on a new book on Apache Axis2.
| Inside Apache Axis2 |
| Best Practices for Developing Interoperable Web Service Applications |
| Apache Axis2 Workshop |
Malcolm Groves
Malcolm is Asia Pacific Director of Technologies and Evangelism for CodeGear. In this role, Malcolm is responsible for the product direction, technical evangelism and marketing for products such as Developer Studio (including Delphi, C++Builder and C#Builder), Delphi for PHP, the Turbo products, JBuilder and InterBase.
| Practical Introduction to CodeGear’s JBuilder® 2007 |
Tobias Israel
Tobias Israel is a SOA specialist at Signsoft GmbH, Dresden. Israel is responsible for several cutting-edge developments in the area of SOA, within Signsoft GmBH. He is also responsible for the production and assessment of drafts that concern the technological conversion of an SOA. He also deals with different specification and standardization attempts in the area of web services.
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Web-Service Transactions with WS-Transaction |
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Web-Service Specifications – An Orientation Guide |
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Persistence for Service Oriented Architecture |
David Intersimone
David Intersimone As Vice President of Developer Relations and CodeGear's Chief Evangelist, David Intersimone is responsible for the CodeGear Developer Network Web site (http://dn.codegear.com), an online community that allows software developers to communicate, collaborate, and gain access to unique content. Additionally, David works with enterprise customers, professional programmers, user groups, the technical press, book authors, and educators around the world, conducting technical presentations and ensuring that their needs and requirements are folded into CodeGear's strategic product plans. David joined the Company in 1985 as Director of Product Services, and before creating Developer Relations, was the Director of Research and Development for languages and tools.
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Java IDE(s) - Then, Now, and Eventually |
Vishal Puri
Vishal Puri is a Senior Consultant for Interface21 Australasia. He has been a Java developer since 1999, having worked on projects for clients across Australasia, the United Kingdom and India. Vishal's experience includes very large financial systems processing millions of transactions per day, together with major public web portals. Many of these systems were heavily SOA, ESB, messaging and integration oriented, and Vishal has considerable expertise and experience in these areas.
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Simplifying Enterprise Applications with Spring 2.0 |
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AOP What's New and Cool in Spring 2.0 |
Vivek Prahlad
Vivek Prahlad is the Director of Innovation at ThoughtWorks. During his career, Vivek has worked as a Technical Lead, Agile Coach, and Project Manager. He has worked in various software industry verticals, including supply chain management, manufacturing, financial services, and embedded systems. He is the author of Frankenstein (www.openqa.org/frankenstein), an Open Source Functional testing tool for Swing applications. He was also the co-founder of gigpad.com, India's first Rock Music community.
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Evolutionary Testing |
Ramesh Loganathan
Pramati Technologies
Ramesh has over 16 years of Systems engineering and R&D management experience in technology intensive product development organizations including Sonic Software (Technical Director- India Dev Center), Pramati Technologies (VP, Engineering) and Informix (Principal Engineer). Ramesh has worked with several organizations in India and in US including IBM, Lever, Compaq, TCS, Informix and Integra. Ramesh is an accomplished Technologist and evangelist regularly speaking at workshops and seminars. He is active in Tech fora, JCP and SPEC organizations, a member of several Standards Expert groups including J2EE 1.4 and is a founding member of ebXMLIndia.org and hyd-eclipse.org. Ramesh is actively engaged with academia and researchers and is an Adjunct Faculty at IIIT-H teaching two courses on Middleware systems.
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Bite-sized SOA |
Mik Kersten
Mik's passion is building tools that make being focused and productive easy. As a research scientist at Xerox PARC, he created the first aspect-oriented programming tools, and he continues to be a committer on the eclipse.org/aspectj project. For his PhD at the University of British Columbia, he created the task-focused interaction technology and is the lead of eclipse.org/mylar project.
| Mylar: the Tool and the Framework |
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Tasktop: the Task-focused Desktop |
| Task-focused Programming with Mylar |
Craig McClanahan
Craig McClanahan is currently Architect for Java Studio Creator, an IDE for graphically assembling web applications based on JavaServer Faces components. Previously, he was co-specification lead for JavaServer Faces 1.0 (JSR-127). Craig was also the original author of the Apache Struts framework for building Web applications, and also original developer of the Shale Framework that extends JavaServer Faces. He was part of the expert group that defined the servlet 2.2, 2.3 and JSP 1.1, 1.2 specifications. He is also the architect of Tomcat's servlet container Catalina.
Wassim Melhem
Wassim Melhem is the PDE component lead for the Eclipse Platform project, and works at the IBM software laboratory in Toronto, Canada. Prior to joining Eclipse in 2002, Wassim has sequenced DNA and implemented XML and Java code-generating tools for the MQSeries family of runtimes. Wassim holds a Bachelor of Mathematics with Honours in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.
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Fundamentals of Eclipse Plug-in and RCP Development |
Ralph Mueller
Ralph Mueller started working for the Eclipse Foundation in September 2005. A computer scientist by trade, he sees the main focus of his work in the exploration and building of the European Eclipse Eco System. In addition to this, he is one of the main contact points in Central Europe for companies and individuals that want to use Eclipse provide services around Eclipse or contribute to Eclipse. Based on his past experience, he is also exploring collaboration with industries such as Automotive or Aerospace with the goal to promote the Eclipse idea into these areas. Having been a software developer and a manager of software development teams in various companies, Ralph joined Object Technology International (OTI) in 1994, where he helped to found the European OTI organisation with its most prominent member, the OTI lab in Zurich - one of the cradles of Eclipse technology. Ralph then joined IBM, where he served as a lead architect for one of IBM's strategic initiatives for the automotive industries.
| Eclipse Callisto and Europa |
| The Eclipse Open Innovation Network |
Himagiri Mukkamala
Himagiri Mukkamala is Director of Engineering at Sybase responsible for Technical Management and Strategy. He represented Sybase in W3C WebServices Architecture Council and Oasis ebXML initiative. He gained 11+ years of technical experience by participating in various initiatives at Sybase – architect for B2B integration product, etc. He has spoken at various conferences during his career including JavaOne, XML Europe, Java User Group, Intel Developer Forum, NII Taiwan, XML Conference, CNet, etc. He was co-author for ebXML specifications and also been a substitute teacher for graduate and undergraduate sessions.
| Data Services – What, Why, How? |
| SDLC for SOA - Where are the Models? |
| Data Tools Platform (DTP) project – SQL Development in Eclipse |
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Eclipse DTP – Extending the Frameworks Using Enablement Project |
Janak Mulani
Janak Mulani is a founder-partner and software engineer at Canoo Engineering AG, Basel, Switzerland. He has over 18 years of experience in the IT industry. His interests are technologies for Rich Internet Applications and Model Driven Architecture and Development.
| Rich Internet Applications and AJAX - Selecting the Best Product |
| Java Rich Internet Application (RIA) Pattern |
Raj Madhuram
Raj Madhuram is currently the CTO of Impiger Technologies, Chennai. He has
more than 17 years of experience in developing software. Prior to joining
Impiger, he was leading the tools development at Kinzan Inc., Carlsbad,
CA, in developing a state-of-the-art modeling tool based on GEF, for web
application assembly. He was the winner of the International Challenge for
Eclipse contest for his plugin FireAntz. Raj holds an MS in Computer
Science from the University of Central Florida, and was a member of UPE
and the UCF Programming Contest team.
| Introduction to the Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) |
Apurba Nath
Apurba is a Principal Engineer at Pramati technologies working in the areas of Java, J2EE and Eclipse. Building on initial tool development experience on WSAD, moved onto Eclipse in 2003 and has worked on building modeling tools including a data and object model builder tool in portfolio management solutions space that enables building portfolio management components and UI starting from a data model. And, built a model-to-code-generation tool for use in the health care space. These solutions used EMF, GEF and JET, when still in their early stages. Apurba, a graduate in Electronics Engineering from REC-Rourkela, has worked with Cognizant Technology Solutions proor to Pramati. Apurba regularly delivers tech talks at seminars and workshops- most recently delivered a workshop on Design Patterns organized by HYSEA and a tech talk at the Hyderabad Eclipse Developers group.
| Marking up Project Meta-data and Statistics on Flow Information |
Harshad Oak
Harshad Oak is the author of Oracle JDeveloper 10g: Empowering J2EE Development, co-author J2EE 1.4 Bible, Pro Jakarta Commons and several articles published in Oracle Magazine, TheServerSide.com, BEA Dev2Dev, IndicThreads.com among others. He has a master's degree in computer management from Symbiosis, India, and an SCJP and SCWCD certification. Before founding Rightrix Solutions, Harshad was part of several J2EE projects at i-flex Solutions and Cognizant Technology Solutions. He is also a Regional Director for Oracle Fusion Middleware. His speaking engagements include ApacheCon Asia 2006, Oracle Java Guru Theatre at JavaOne 2004 and 2006, ODTUG 2004 Conference, IndicThreads.com Conference On Java Technology 2006, "Java Trends" session Pune Java 2005, and guest lecturer on J2EE at SICSR, Pune.
| Should You Adopt/Migrate to Struts 2.0? – A Getting Started Guide |
| Groovy And Grails Tutorial |
Sangeeta Oak
Sangeeta Oak holds a master's degree in computer management. She is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and a Sun Certified Web Component Developer. She currently heads the projects and research division at Rightrix Solutions. Prior to Rightrix she led several projects in Broadvision, J2EE and EAI at Cognizant Technology Solutions. She is a guest lecturer on Java at Symbiosis Institute Of Computer Studies and Research, Pune. She has recently designed and developed the Java course and material for Symbiosis Center For Distance Learning.
| Building an Ajax Java Web Application Using the Google Web Toolkit |
| Building an Ajax Java Web Application Using the Dojo Toolkit |
Aninda Sengupta
Aninda Sengupta is a Senior Development Manager at Oracle, working on ESB and BPEL products, which form the backbone of Oracle SOA suite. Other than leading the development of these products at Oracle India and being involved with key customers globally on their adoption of SOA, he has been closely tracking the Web 2.0 phenomenon. Aninda has 16 years of software experience spanning India and US — his prior work at Oracle, US, includes development of the EJB Container and his prior companies include Apple Research, US, working on Collaboration Frameworks and CMC, India, working on scientific applications.
| Web 2.0 in the Enterprise |
Prashant Sharma
Prashant is responsible for developing strategic alliances in developers’ community for use of community edition. He is also responsible for organising & promoting community edition technical workshops & creating visibility thorough mass campaigns and software distribution activities. Prashant is WAS Community Editon Business Development Manager at IBM.
| IBM's WAS Community Edition Initiative with Eclipse |
Eddy Pauwels
Eddy Pauwels Is Director of Product Marketing for Serena. Eddy has been in the software business for over 15 years. During his career he worked for companies like Trinzic Corp., Platinum Technology and Computer Associates which provided him with a broad background in IT, ranging from Application Lifecycle Management (Development, Modeling, Change and Process Management, Requirements Management) to Information Management (Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing). Eddy holds a masters degree in computer science from the University of Brussels and lectures on the topic of Application and Product Life Cycle Management regularly.
| The Eclipse Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) Project |
Mahesh Subramanian
Mahesh works with Serena Software in the capacity of Regional Product Manager, Asia Pacific. As part of this role, Mahesh’s responsibilities range from providing solution advisory and delivery, ensuring conformance of product features vis-à-vis requirements and new technology initiatives including SOA and Eclipse. Mahesh is part of the product definition and operational review committees. He has over ten years experience in Configuration Management Principles, Change Management (of Applications, Databases, and IT Infrastructure et al.), Application Lifecycle Management and IT Governance.
| ALF in action: Orchestrating ALM Tools in Real Time |
Craig Russell
Craig Russell is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. He is specification lead for Java Data Objects (JSR 12 and 243) and leads the implementation team for its reference implementation and technology compatibility kit. He is the architect of the Container Managed Persistence component of the J2EE Reference Implementation and Sun Java System Application Server. Craig is co-author of the definitive work, Java Data Objects, published by O'Reilly.
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Architecture of Java Persistence Implementations |
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Introduction to Java Persistence |
Lokesh Reddy
Lokesh has 17 years of R&D and IT management experience in technology intensive organizations in India and US. Specialized in technology strategy, solutions architecture and delivery, software processes and systems. Expertise includes extensive Data Modeling, UML, Object Oriented design and programming using Java, Eclipse, J2EE and XML. Currently he heads Product Development Services (PDS) division at Pramati, and works with various ISVs with their product engineering, including Eclipse based tools for enterprise products. Prior to joining Pramati Lokesh has worked in Development Manager, Consultant, and Architect roles for various product and system integrators on a variety of technologies. Lokesh holds Masters Degree in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur.
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Model Visualization Approaches on Eclipse Platform |
Venkata Ravipati
Venkata Ravipati is a director of product management in Oracle Fusion Middleware development. In his current role Ravipati is driving fusion middleware evangelism and go-to-market initiatives. Ravipati has been with Oracle Application server engineering division from inception, and was involved in defining XML web services core runtime functionality. He has strong background in distributed computed technologies like J2EE and SOA. Ravipati holds masters in computer science and engineering, and B.Tech honors from IIT-Kharagpur.
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Developing Enterprise Applications using Eclipse IDE and Oracle Fusion Middleware |
Ravikanth Somayaji
Ravikanth has been building Eclipse plugns since 2005. He has worked closely with UML2 and GMF in building editors for specific usages. He is presently working on extending these frameworks to the visual tooling space, building modeling tools relevant to the UML2 standards. These tools assist in describing domain specific types for integration in the BPM and Rule Engine product space. Prior to working at Pramati, he has worked on .Net UI tooling at Satyam Computers. Ravikanth holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Manipal Institute Technology.
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Model Visualization Approaches on Eclipse Platform |
Venkat Srinivas Seshasai
Venkat Srinivas Seshasai is a Chief Development Architect with SAP NetWeaver. He has joined SAP Labs in 1998 and focuses on development of frameworks for mobilizing business processes. He holds a Masters degree from IIT Madras.
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Enterprise SOA: SAP's Foundation for Delivering Disruptive and Sustaining Innovation |
G N Shrinivas
Dr G N Shrinivas is an Enterprise Architect at Hewlett Packard’s Global Delivery Application Services (HP GDAS) organisation. As a senior member of the Architecture Council at HP GDAS, Shrinivas heads HP’s SOA Competency Center in Bangalore. In this role, Shrinivas works closely with HP’s WW SOA Program to identify SOA strategies, deliver SOA focused engagements and to broadbase the SOA vision within HP. Shrinivas is an Aeronautical Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology at Bombay with a Masters in Aerospace (IIT B) and a Doctorate in Mathematical Sciences from Oxford University. Shrinivas has several publications in reputed international forums (including the IEEE and ASME).
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SOA Panel Discussion |
Shelby Sanders
As an architect of development tools for CodeGear, Shelby Sanders is currently leading the effort to deliver a comprehensive development environment for Ruby on Rails.Shelby has been developing software for more than fifteen years and was previously the technical lead of the JEE tooling and application server integrations team for CodeGear JBuilder, and is focused on building tools which maximise individual and team productivity. Shelby currently lives and works in Scotts Valley, California.
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Effective Ruby on Rails Development Using CodeGear’s Ruby on Rails IDE |
Alexander von Zitzewitz
Alexander von Zitzewitz is acting as managing director of the hello2morrow. He is bringing in more than 20 years of project and manangement experience. In 1993 he founded ootec – a company focussed on project services arround object oriented software technology. This company was sold to the French Valtech group in March 2000 and served customers like Siemens, BMW, Thyssen-Krupp-Stahl and other well known names from the German industry. From 2003 to the beginning of 2005 he was working as director of Central Europe for the French company Xcalia S.A. Besides working for hello2morrow Alexander has a seat in the supervisory board of 7Val AG in Cologne. Alexander has a diploma in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich.
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Increase Project Success with Java Architecture Management |
