DSI and the founders of Spring, Interface21 (i21), successfully presented the first Spring Framework Workshop event in Ireland on Thursday, 23rd November. Focusing on the enterprise use of the Spring Framework, the half-day event attracted great interest from both the public and private sectors.
Sessions were led by core developer of the open source Spring Framework and Principal Consultant at i21, Rob Harrop. Rob, author of the bestseller ‘Pro Spring’, has extensive experience leading successful UK government and public sector projects for the Department of Trade and Industry UK, London Metropolitan Police, National Union of Students UK and others. Also presenting at the half-day workshop were DSI’s Chief Technical Architect, Yagiz Erkan and Process Architect, Brendan Lawlor. Recently presenting at SpringOne 2006, both Yagiz and Brendan shared their experiences on the practicalities of using the Spring Framework on real world projects.
Click on the following links to review the workshop presentations.
“System Governance and Architecture: The Spring Experience in UK Government systems”
Speaker: Rob Harrop, Principal Consultant, Interface21
http://www.decaresystems.ie/downloads/spring_in_government.ppt
“Use of Spring in Large Scale Java and .Net systems”
Speaker: Yagiz Erkan, DSI Chief Technical Architect
http://www.decaresystems.ie/downloads/Spring_in_DSI_YE.ppt
“Spring and the Agile Methodology”
Speaker: Brendan Lawlor, DSI Process Architect
http://www.decaresystems.ie/downloads/Spring_and_Agility_BL.ppt
Well, it’s taken three days but finally, I have found a secluded area where I can take out this laptop/calculator without the fear of ridicule from my peers. Everything from the latest DELL 6400 Duo Core processing machines to Ferrari styled Acer’s are all around me…much more power than this OAP with it’s 256MB Ram which proudly displays that it is Windows 98 compliant…but no, I’ll not mention another word on the subject – Let’s get down to business…
Yes, we have both survived TechEd 2006. I’m sure Stan will blog his own version of events as we have split-up which sessions to attend so as to maximise the benefit of our trip to Barcelona.
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When I was in college, learning the art of programming through Pascal, we were told to be ‘lazy’ (not a hard sell I can assure) - to always put off the detailed work till last. In otherwords, we were to code the high-level abstractions first, and then pass-by-pass, work our way down until we were able to write the building-blocks of a program’s logic - the functions that did the simple but fundamental operations. The idea was to break the big problem down into smaller problems until we got to a point where the problem could be expressed in terms of operations that even a stupid computer could understand. This was a great education, and a philosophy that can be applied to many of life’s complex problems (divide and conquer!). But I’m not sure anymore that it’s the right way to build software solutions.
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