No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium makes its way to OK!
I just received an email from Jay Zimmerman regarding the No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium that is making its way to Oklahoma in June! Attend the April 2nd Tulsa Java Developers Group meeting and the April 30th Tulsa Developers .NET meeting for your chance to win a free pass!
No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium Series 2007, the premier
technically focused Java/Agility Event series is coming to Oklahoma City
with the Greater Oklahoma Software Symposium 2007 on June 1-3rd. Mark
you calendar, tell all of your friends/associates and come join us for a
great show!
Event Name: Greater Oklahoma Software Symposium 2007
Dates: June 1-3, 2007
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
URL:
www.nofluffjuststuff.com/sh/2007-06-oklahomacityThe 2007 Greater Oklahoma Software Symposium is coming to OKC on June
1-3rd. GOKSS 2007 will offer five (5) concurrent sessions for you to
choose from. The hot topics covered at GOKSS 2007 include:
* Spring 2.0
* Groovy/Grails
* OSGI
* Domain Driven Design
* Annotations
* Java Concurrency
* Java 6.0
* REST
* JRuby
* Enterprise Ajax
* JPA and many more!
We have a great set of speakers lined up for you to enjoy featuring:
Ted Neward, author of "Effective Enterprise Java"
Venkat Subramaniam, co-author of "Practices of an Agile Developer"
Howard Lewis Ship, creator of the Tapestry Framework
Glenn Vanderburg, Javascript Expert
Nathaniel Shutta, co-author of "Foundations of Ajax"
Jared Richardson, co-author of "Ship It"
David Hussman, Agility Expert
Ben Hale, Sr. Consultant with Interface 21
and many more...
The No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium series is regarded as the premier
Java/Agility event series anywhere serving over 16,000 attendees with
some 100 events since 2002. The popularity of the NFJS symposium series
can be traced to the following:
1). Exceptional Speakers
2). Limited Attendance - capped at 250 people
3). No Vendors, No Sales Pitches, no Marketecture
4). Excellent networking opportunities with speakers and fellow attendees
5). The Best Value in the Java conferencing space period
Early Bird Registration $750/person good thru 5/7/07
Special $50 discount available to all JUG members, use the discount
code, nfjsusergroup50 when registering.
Excellent Group Discounts Available - bring your entire development team
to the show - rates good through 5/07/07:
5-9 Attendees: $675/person
10-14 Attendees: $650/person
15-24 Attendees: $625/person
25-over Attendees: $600/person
Great Swag in 2007 - all attendees receive a new 2007 NFJS laptop bag &
custom leather binder.
Excellent Giveaways - Sony E-reader, Sony Playstation 3 and Apple iPods
Join us for a great show! We appreciate your support and patronage!!
Greater Oklahoma Software Symposium 2007:
www.nofluffjuststuff.com/sh/2007-06-oklahomacityVenue: Sheraton Midwest City Conference Center
All the Best,
Jay Zimmerman
NFJS 2007 Symposium Director
jzimmerman@nofluffjuststuff.com
David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as: Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winner Communications (ESPN.com) and IBM Global Services. At the age of 14, he began his application development ambitions with a Commodore 64, BASIC, and a 300 baud modem. Even at that early age, he primarily focused on two specific application types: multi-user communities and database applications.
His hunger to learn as much as possible about development lead him through courses such as DBase III, DBase IV, Pascal, C, C++, Java, and several in UNIX. He started his development career first doing heavy processing with Access and VBA, then moved on to VB 3, Oracle, and Delphi. Visual Basic was one environment that remained constant for many years, including his very first .NET projects performed in Visual Basic.NET.
After working several years on very high end internal Corporate applications, the consultant company he was working for, sought out his ideas for actual software products that could be packaged and sold. He had already developed several prototypes of a dynamic portal application, before portals even became popular, so this became the logic decision and he became the Director of Product Development. Under his direction, a team of developers and graphic artists, took a skinning approach before that become popular, and completed the core portal application, and continued on to developer 15+ add-on modules, including things such as: Help Desk Ticket Systems, Change Control, Records Management, Human Resources, and many more applications. Eventually, it spun off into it's own separate company as KnowledgeGEAR, a complete intranet in the box solution.
Having worked as a consultant, he has had a experience with a very wide range of applications and architectures, at one time, even converting several Fox Pro and GW-Basic applications to VB 6 and ASP. His early training of Unix and the C language and years of experience with JavaScript, lead him very quickly to C#, where he has remained focused ever since.
He is the current President of the
Tulsa Developers .NET user group.. He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He is currently pursuing his MCDBA and then on to MCSE.