Gordon Dickens' Geek Topics

Bio - I've worked in the IT consulting realm for over 15 years. My background includes speaking at JavaOne 2011, Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise (2009-2012), Groovy and Grails seminar, experience designing and developing in Grails, Roo and OSGi, Spring and Hibernate applications. Gordon has over 25 years as an experienced technical instructor in various technology paradigms. He has applied various technologies including the design, development and testing of applications, object and database modeling within most industries. I enjoy learning new technologies and sharing knowledge with others. I particularly enjoy taking a complex topic and breaking it down into simpler terms for anyone to understand.

Presenter & Speaker - My recent presentations include:

• Rapid Enterprise Applications in the Cloud - JavaOne 2011
• Java Enterprise Applications in the Cloud - Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference 2012

Instructor & Mentor - I teach and mentor in advanced Spring and open source topics such as:

Blogger - Technophile Blog and actively tweet about open source technology - @gdickens.

Author - I contributed for the book Spring Roo in Action, was the technical reviewer of Spring Batch in Action and wrote the SpringSource Tool Suite RefCard for DZone.

Contributor - I am very active within the SpringFramework, Spring Roo, Spring Integration, Spring Batch and Eclipse Virgo projects. I have submitted numerous problem tickets and patches to these projects.

Reviewer - I've participated in reviewing several books for Manning Publishing:

I am a SpringSource Certified Spring Professional teaching the following courses

• Enterprise Integration with Spring 3
• Core Spring 3

Demos I use in my Spring Courses (from GitHub)

CON6430 - Java EE and Spring Framework Panel Discussion

• Richard Hightower - Developer, InfoQ
• Bert Ertman - Fellow, Luminis
• Gordon Dickens - Technical Architect, IT101, Inc.
• Chris Beams - Senior Technical Staff, VMware
• Arun Gupta - Technology Evangelist, Oracle

In the age of Java EE 6 and Spring 3, enterprise Java developers have many architectural choices, including Java EE 6 and Spring, but which one is right for your project? Many of us have heard the debate and seen the flame wars—it’s a topic with passionate community members, and it’s a vibrant debate. If you are looking for some level-headed discussion, grounded in real experience, by developers who have tried both, then come join this discussion. InfoQ’s Java editors moderate the discussion, and they are joined by independent consultants and representatives from both Java EE and VMWare/SpringSource.

Objectives

Present a discussion between independents who do not work for either vendor, describing their experiences Present a discussion between vendors explaining the value of their offerings Involve attendees in the above discussionJavaOne Experience Level:Intermediate

Session 22120

Presented with Spring Roo developer Stefan Schmidt

Browse JavaOne by Speaker: http://ow.ly/6bFPR

Meet the MVBs

My DZone Blogs

01-Jan-2011

Presentation Two Intro to Spring Roo

Download Demo from Git:

git://github.com/gordonad/grails-roster-demo.git