Denver Java Users Group

 

agenda

5:30 p.m. Food and Networking
6-7 p.m. Basic Concepts
7-7:15 p.m. Break and Announcements
7:15-8:15 p.m. Main Meeting
8:15-8:30 p.m. Questions and Answers
8:30 p.m. Door Prizes

location

We will be meeting at the Tivoli Building which is closest to the Pepsi Center side of the campus. We are in room 320 AB.

For directions to the Auraria Campus, click here.

sponsors

 

Description

These days, having a single look and feel to your application may not be enough. Private labeling, cobranding, and integration with corporate style guidelines mean that separating out content from presentation can be very important to your application. Learn how to give your web application multiple "skins" using standard technologies: filters, JSPs, JSTL, CSS, and properties bundles. We'll explore the separation of content from presentation, understand some important browser differences, learn how to completely replace the text in your application, and gain a much deeper respect for CSS--it's not just for fonts and colors anymore!

Speaker

Chris has been getting paid to be a geek since 9th grade, and he did the first evaluation of Java for Andersen Consulting in 1995. He is currently an architect with Key Bank, and an OSS developer in his whatever spare time is left after three kids (4 and under). In previous lives he has built a development organization in Manila, and consulted around the U.S. for everyone from the New York Attorney General to the nation's second-largest retailer of musical instruments. His interests range from hardware to software and everything in between, and he holds Bachelors degrees in both Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Washington University.

Description

Why is it that within the software development culture, we are expected to just "figure it out" on our own? Have you ever wondered what strategies you or your organization could employ to decrease the learning cycle while increasing your productivity?

Reading a book and figuring it out on your own, is a training strategy, but not a good one. In the world of increasingly complex technologies, systems, and solutions, development teams need to establish and adopt a training strategy that not only yields quality products, but also cultivates productive software teams. This requires a bit of planning, an understanding of how training fits into the software development lifecycle, and awareness of how different approaches effect the creation of the skills and competencies required to achieve the business goals.

Come and learn how a training strategy, learning technologies, and emerging philosophies can help create a productive software development team.

Speaker

Kelby Zorgdrager is the President and Founder of DevelopIntelligence. Kelby has spent nearly 15 years in the software development industry holding roles from software engineer to Chief Technology Officer. During the dot-com years, Kelby spent time at Sun Microsystems initially as a Java Instructor and Evangelist eventually transitioning to a software engineer working on a Jini-based infrastructure product. Over the past four years, Kelby has been focusing on creating productivity within software development organizations through the delivery of training and consulting services. Kelby has been a guest speaker at software development conferences like Colorado Software Summit, Java One, Java University, and COMDEX.