June 11th: Ted Neward on Groovy and Dynamic/Functional languages

The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Groovy - 60 minutes
Looking for ways to extend your Java programming skills in the dynamic direction without abandoning the platform you've come to love? Groovy, an open-source programming languages being ratified through the Java Community Process as we speak, is a dynamic language with both interpreted and compiled execution modes, complete access to the underlying Java platform and libraries, and a lot of the features that we've come to love in languages like Ruby and Python. Come find out what Groovy can do for you through this introductory, code-first overview.

Ted will also do 30 minutes on why the next five years is about languages - Dynamic/Functional

Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 20-person shops. He speaks on the conference circuit, including the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium tour, discussing Java, .NET and XML service technologies, focusing on Java-.NET interoperability. He has written several widely-recognized books in both the Java and .NET space, including the recently-released "Effective Enterprise Java". He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two sons, four video-game consoles, thousands of books (on programming and otherwise), and eight PCs.

Ted is being flown in by the folks at No Fluff Just Stuff who put on the Western Canada Java Software Symposium each year.

Details:
Wednesday, June 11h, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Fifth Ave Place
West Tower
2nd floor conference room (Northwest corner)
237 - 4th Avenue Southwest