Agile 2009 is not just for Agile coaches or project managers. About one in three participants qualify herself as a developer or a technical leader. And the program reflects that.
Amongst the activities that might interest fans of the Java:
- the Programming with the Stars contest where pairs of developers wll be demonstrate their programming skills in front of a panel of three wise men. The language is up to the developers.
- the Developer Jam stage, particularly dedicated to programmers
- another stage that might be of interest is Tools For Agility
- Java developers might also relate to the Agile developer, Architect and Developer personas
Here are a few sessions with Java either as the main topic, or as the language used for demonstration:
- Emergent Design & Evolutionary Architecture with none other than Neal Ford
- Scala: Object-Oriented and Functional Programming for the JVM by Dean Wampler
- How to make your testing more Groovy by Paul King and Craig Smith
- Agile AJAX: The Google Web Toolkit Experience, presented by Daniel Wellman and Paul Infield-Harm
- Creating Habitable Code: Lessons in Longevity from CruiseControl, with Jeffrey Fredrick and Paul Julius
- Java and Ruby Tools for Code Quality, by Steve Hayes
For some other sessions, Java is not central, but will be at least mentioned:
- SOA and Color Modeling by Daniel Vacanti and Stephen Palmer
- Coding Dojo: Enhancing Legacy Code, presented by Guillaume Tardif and myself
- Executable requirements: BDD with easyb and JDave (will also mention Groovy), with John Smart and Lasse Koskela
- Clean Code III: Functions, with Robert Martin
- BDD clinic – the doctor is in, by Pat Maddox and Elizabeth Keogh
- Malleable Code: How Tests Improve Production Code, by Eric Anderson
- Back to Basics – Writing Expressive Tests Without All The Wizardry, with Rod Coffin
- Test Driven Development in Java: Live and Uncensored, with Ben Rady
- Acceptance Testing Java Applications with Cucumber, RSpec, and JRuby, with Dean Wampler and Aslak Hellesøy
- Java Power Tools – getting it all together, with John Smart
- Applying Agile Development Practices to Atypical Technologies, from Scott Dillman
- Mission Impossible: TDD and JavaScript, by James Suchy
- Leveraging Maven 2 for Agility, with Tim Andersen and Luke Amdor
- Automated deployment with Maven and friends – going the whole nine yards, from John Smart
- Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests, by Steve Freeman
Check out the entire program on conference site!
Update (06/08/2009): should have mentioned that the Cast Codeurs podcast pretty much have the same information in French.
