James Crisp » Talks

Sydney BarCamp 3 this Weekend!

James — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:33:17 +0000

BarCamp Sydney is two days long this year, and will span the whole of the coming weekend (5-6 April). I’ll be there on Saturday. It’s usually quite a fun event, lots of good sessions and you’re quite free to move around and find something that interests you. Part of the BarCamp manifesto is that you should also contribute as well as listen - I’ll probably give a JRuby talk and demo.

Hope to see you at BarCamp!

“JRuby: Enterprise 2.0″ Slides

James — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:21:45 +0000

Here’s the slides from “JRuby: Enterprise 2.0″ from our recent talks at Sun Tech Day and the ACS Web Technologies SIG.

“JRuby: Enterprise 2.0″ Presentations

James — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:27:57 +0000

Josh Price and I will be co-presenting at the Melbourne Sun Tech Day and the Sydney ACS Web Technologies SIG. Here’s the low down:

JRuby: Enterprise 2.0
There’s a lot of buzz around JRuby in both the Java and Ruby communities, for good reason. This talk will give you a whirlwind introduction to JRuby. We’ll show you why JRuby is regarded as such a powerful and dynamic development platform. We’ll also suggest where to use JRuby in product development and the enterprise and how to leverage your existing Java investments.
There will be sample applications, live demos and not many slides.

Sun Tech Day Melbourne
4 March 2008, 2:30pm
More info on Sun site…

ACS Web Technologies SIG Sydney
5 March 2008, 6:15pm
More info on ACS site…

Hope to see you there!

Delicious .NET - Slides & Code

James — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:47:07 +0000

Here’s the slides and code from yesterday’s “Delicious Dot Net” talk at ACS.

ACS Talk - “Delicious .NET” - 3rd Oct

James — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:41:38 +0000

I’ll be giving a talk at an ACS event after work on Wed next week (3rd October). Here’s the blurb:

A tasty take on WPF, WCF, LINQ and O-R Mapping

An exploration of some of the freshest, tastiest and most powerful features in .NET 3.5 through implementing a useful application.
You’ll take away an understanding of what’s in .NET 3.5 and how to build online and offline applications with the new technology stack supported by Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas Beta 2).

Location
Norman Selfe Room,
Level 3,
280 Pitt St Sydney (Sydney Mechanics School of Arts)

Time
6:15pm, 3rd October 2007

For more info or to register, please visit the ACS site.

Hope you can come

WebJam this Saturday Night

James — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:23:35 +0000

WebJam is usually quite fun. The premise is that a large group of people meet in a pub, have a few drinks (often sponsored by some generous company) and see quite a number of presenters who have 3 minutes each to show off cool, web-related stuff they’ve done recently. The next one is this Saturday. Details as follows:

Place: Bar Broadway (opposite UTS)
Date: 29 Sept 07
Time: 6pm

I’m planning to go, and also to give a 3 minute presentation on my new free wedding registry site.

Hope to see you there!

BarCamp Sydney this Saturday

James — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:09:05 +0000

It is BarCamp in Sydney this Saturday. I haven’t been to one of these unconference style events before, but I’ve heard good things about it from my colleagues. I’m quite excited to go along and see what it is like.

If you’re in Sydney and interested in stopping by, details are as follows:

When: Sat 25th August 2007 from about 9am
Where: University of Technology, Sydney (Jones St entrance)
More details…

One of the novel aspects of BarCamp is that all participants are encouraged to present or start a discussion around something that interests them. For my part, depending on what people are interested in, I was thinking of one of the following:

new stuff in the .net space (C# 3.0, .NET 3.5, LINQ, WPF, WCF, etc) and showing some demos
giving a bit of a Ruby/JRuby introduction with help from Ola’s JavaBin slides
or, if people are keen, a discussion around JRuby vs C# 3 vs Java vs ?? and their stacks for different situations and problems

By the way, the conference is free, and it is not too late to sign up
Hope to see you there!

Slides from ‘Learning to live with the static-typing fascist and the dynamic-typing fan-boy in your enterprise…’

James — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:03:13 +0000

Here’s the slides from Jim’s and my recent presentation at Tech Ed 07 on the Gold Coast and in Auckland:

LearningToLiveWithTheStaticTypingFascistAndTheDynamicTypingFanboy-TechEd07.pptx (Powerpoint 2007)

LearningToLiveWithTheStaticTypingFascistAndTheDynamicTypingFanboy-TechEd07.ppt (Powerpoint 2003)

You may also be interested in having a read of the abstract.

Tech Ed Talks

James — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:37:18 +0000

Jim Webber and I will be co-presenting at Tech Ed Australia and Tech Ed New Zealand this year. Here’s the low down:

Learning to live with the static-typing fascist and the dynamic-typing fan-boy in your enterprise…

Gold Coast
Thursday 9 Aug
5pm - 6:15pm

Auckland
Tuesday 14 Aug
2:20pm - 3:35pm

“What’s best for your enterprise? Is it the ‘glue that never sets’ and flexibility of dynamic languages like Ruby, or the tried and true, hard and fast rules and tool support of static languages like C# 3.0? Are there different trade-offs for green field development and integration?

And more importantly, which is best, the Mac or PC?

In a dynamic, and combative presentation, Jim and James will let their alter-egos run amok and answer these questions from the perspective of a seasoned enterprise architect and a l33t hax0r. By the end of this session you will understand the interplays between the two personality types, have had a few laughs, and picked up a few tips on how to use both technology
sets in harmony in your enterprise. “

Hope to see you there!