Jeff Anders

Jeff joined CodeGear in January of 2008 as Sr. Director of Product Marketing covering the JBuilder and JGear product lines.  Jeff is responsible for the creation of outbound messaging and communications related to these products, creating corporate level go-to-market strategies, and managing the relationship with strategic partners to insure that joint go-to-market messages are in alignment.

Prior to joining CodeGear Jeff was with SAP Labs for two years where he was a member of the Platform Solution Marketing group focused on Developer Platforms and Tools for the SAP NetWeaver platform.  Before SAP Jeff was with Sun Microsystems, Inc. for 16 years where he served in various roles including Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Product Sales Specialist, Marketing Technical Specialist (Evangelist), Product Marketing, Product Management, Channel Marketing, and Group Marketing Manager.

Jeff started his professional career as a Software Engineer with Unisys Corporation where he worked on numerous projects for the US Army, the US Air Force, FEMA, and the FAA.

Jeff holds a BA in Mathematics from West Chester University, and an MS in Computer Science from Villanova University..

Developer UML

Chris Aniszczyk

Chris Aniszczyk is an Eclipse committer based out of IBM Austin Labs (IBM Lotus). He specializes in general development around the Eclipse platform  and commits on a few Eclipse projects (PDE, ECF, EMFT).

	Plug-in Development 101
	Plug-in Development Tips, Tricks and Best Practices
	Spying into the Heart of Eclipse
	Introduction to the Eclipse Communications

Ed Burns

Ed Burns is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. Ed has worked on a wide variety of client and server side web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat and, most recently JavaServer Faces. Ed is currently the co-spec lead for JavaServer Faces, a topic on which Ed recently co-authored a book for McGraw Hill. Ed is an experienced international conference speaker, with consistently high attendence numbers and ratings at JavaOne, JAOO, W-JAX, No Fluff Just Stuff, JA-SIG, The Ajax Experience, and Java and Linux User Groups.

	JSF 2.0, Insight and Opinion
	Enterprise Grade Ajax and JSF
	Glassfish: the best Open Source Application Server

Wayne Beaton

Wayne Beaton is employed by The Eclipse Foundation where he works as an Evangelist, spreading the word and helping folks adopt Eclipse technologies. Wayne has extensive experience in object-oriented software development and is a strong proponent of refactoring, unit testing, and agile development methodologies.

	Anatomy an Eclipse RCP Application
	Task-oriented Java Programming with Eclipse Mylar
	Test First Development Using Eclipse

Jochen Boeder

Jochen Boeder works in SAP’s office of the CTO as product expert for architecture governance, architecture guidelines, and architecture documentation. In the last years he has been closely involved in the development of enterprise SOA. He has several years of experience in research and development, product management and as e-business consultant. Jochen Boeder has a university degree in mathematics, history and computer science. He has co-authored several IT text books and publications.

Making Architecture Understandable

Papick Garcia Taboada

Papick Taboada is a freelance software architect with many years of experience. His main focus is on the architecture of Java-EE applications, agile software development and software development with Open Source technologies.

	GWT - JSF done right ?
	Complex Event Processing with Esper
	Technologies Ain't no Architectures

David Intersimone

As Vice President of Developer Relations and CodeGear's Chief Evangelist, David Intersimone is responsible for the CodeGear Developer Network Web site (http://dn.codegear.com), an online community that allows software developers to communicate, collaborate, and gain access to unique content. Additionally, David works with enterprise customers, professional programmers, user groups, the technical press, book authors, and educators around the world, conducting technical presentations and ensuring that their needs and requirements are folded into CodeGear's strategic product plans. David joined the Company in 1985 as Director of Product Services, and before creating Developer Relations, was the Director of Research and Development for languages and tools.

	How to apply Software Archeology to your development process
	Developer UML

Amit Jain

Amit Jain is working as a Development Architect with the SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment team in SAP Labs India. His current focus is the Enterprise Services Repository (ESR) which is a central repository for modeling enterprise services based on the SAP NetWeaver Platform. The ES Repository along with Registry offer capabilities to develop and consume enterprise services. Before this, Amit has also worked in Lifecycle Management of SAP NetWeaver with focus on Development Infrastructure (DI). He has a total of 7 years of experience in software development & design with expertise in Java/J2EE, tool development in Eclipse & Service Oriented Architecture.

Design time Governance in Service Oriented Architecture

Michael Johann

Michael Johann, freelancing IT architect, is the former CEO and founder of CARNOT AG . He is known since the start of Java as being the Editor-in-Chief and founder of the magazine JavaSpektrum. In 2006 he switched to Ruby on Rails and will publish his first book about Rails in summer 2008.

	Introduction to Ruby on Rails
	Advanced Rails Topics

Mike Keith

Mike Keith was a co-lead of the EJB 3.0 and JPA 1.0 specifications in addition to representing Oracle on the Java EE 5 specification expert group. He co-authored the premier JPA reference book called Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API and has over 15 years of teaching, research and development experience in object-oriented and distributed systems, specializing in object persistence. He currently works as an architect for Java persistence strategies at Oracle and represents Oracle on the JPA 2.0 (JSR 317) and Java EE 6 (JSR 316) expert groups. He is a popular speaker at numerous conferences and events around the world.

	Building Java Applications using EJB 3.0 and JPA
	Writing Portable JPA Applications

Ravi Kumar

Ravi Kumar is principal architect in the Java tools group at CodeGear and is responsible for the vision and architecture of Eclipse-based JBuilder product line. He is the driving force behind many key innovations at CodeGear. In the recent past, it was the JBuilder ProjectAssist team system, which expands the sphere of developer productivity and collaboration from the IDE to the developer eco-system at large. Off late, he has set forth to offer a compelling new vision of software architecture and development called Application Factories. This vision introduces an application-driven development methodology and endeavors to transform today's generic tools to be application-aware. In addition to his role as the architect, Ravi specializes in SOA, Web Services and Database tooling.

	Application Factories, Part I - What's next for the IDEs?
	Application Factories, Part II: An Application-driven Development Model

Tejasvi Kumar

Tejasvi Kumar works as a VSTS Technology Specialist with Microsoft India’s Developer and Platform Evangelism team. He brings with him over 11 years of experience having worked in the fields of software development, SDLC tools & methodologies, pre-sales consulting & product management. He has vast experience in software tools & technologies that address: testing, software configuration management, requirements & static analysis. His academic qualifications include an engineering degree and an MS.

Cross Platform Development Using Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Guillaume Laforge

Guillaume Laforge is the Groovy Project Manager, and Spec Lead of JSR-241, the Java Specification Request standardizing the Groovy dynamic language in the Java Community Process. As Vice President Technology of G2One, the company dedicated to the development of Groovy and Grails, he provides professional services around those technologies (training, support, and consulting). Guillaume co-authored the Groovy in Action best-seller book for Manning, and reviewed and wrote forewords for most of the Groovy and Grails books on the market. You can meet him at conferences around the world where he evangelizes the Groovy dynamic language, and the agile Grails web framework.

	Groovy- Dynamic Language for JVM
	Grails- Agile and Productive Web framework
	Writing Domain-Specific Languages with Groovy

Chuk-Munn Lee

Chuk Munn Lee has been programming in the Java language since 1996, when he first joined Sun Microsystems in Hong Kong. He currently works as a senior developer consultant and technology evangelist for Technology Outreach at Sun in Singapore. Chuk's focus is in: Java APIs, Java EE, Java SE, and Java ME. Chuk worked with key Asia-Pacific independent software vendors (ISVs) during the last six years to helped them design, prototype, develop, tune, size, and benchmark their Java applications. Chuk is also an avid gamer; he shares his enthusiasm for Java technology adoption with other game developers. Chuk graduated in 1987 from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, where his favorite subject was compiler theory. Chuk was interviewed by Sun Developer Network (SDN): "A Conversation With...Chuk Munn Lee "

	Scripting Support on the Java Platform
	Cool User Interfaces with JavaFX

Janakiram MSV

Janakiram MSV works as a Program Manager with the JScript team at the Microsoft India Development Center. He started his career at Microsoft India as a Technical Specialist. He spent most of his time with the Developer & Platform Evangelism (DPE) group, evangelizing Microsoft application development platform and tools. In his current role, he works closely with the web developer community and drives the customer connection for the JScript product group. Janakiram spoke at any many premier events including Microsoft TechEd, DevDays, TechMela, Linux Bangalore, Linux Asia and Borland DevCon. In his free time, he enjoys playing high definition action games on his Xbox 360. He is an avid blogger and his blog can be found at http://www.janakiramm.net/blog.

What’s new for Ajax developers in IE8?

Ajit Kumar Narayanan

Ajit Kumar Narayanan works as a Project Manager at SAP Labs India. He is currently involved in the development of UI modeling tools as a part of the NetWeaver Composition Environment. NetWeaver Composition Environment provides a platform for building composite applications based on a Service Oriented Architecture. He has over 8 years of experience in the design and development of design time tools. He has in-depth knowledge in Java, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture and composite applications.

Developing Composite applications to leverage Service Oriented Architecture

Ramnish Singh

Ramnish Singh is a Senior Architect and Solutions Strategy Leader with successful record of architecting, building and operating world-class solutions, programs, and project teams. He works as an IT Advisor with Microsoft India's Developer and Platform Evangelism team. Prior to working with Microsoft, he worked as a consultant at Wipro Technologies. Ramnish has more than 10 years of industry experience, working with customers in High End mission critical Enterprise projects. He brings varied experience to the table. He has a graduation degree in Computer Engineering. He is also a Microsoft Certified Architect, a practicing PMP (Project Management Professional) and CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional

S+S Building blocks

Vivek Singh

Vivek Singh is a Senior Developer at ThoughtWorks with over nine years of experience in software development. He's the author of SharpRobo and White, two open source tools aimed at enabling maintainable automated functional test suites. His main area of recent expertise has been J2EE and Web/Servlets/JSP, C#/.NET.

Automated Functional Testing

Neville Roy Singham

Roy Singham is founder and chairman of ThoughtWorks, Inc. With more than 20 years of technology and executive management experience, Roy is a globally-renowned information technology thought leader. He has authored technology-related columns in various industry publications, and is a frequent speaker at technology conferences worldwide. Roy and ThoughtWorks are recognized experts in Enterprise Architecture, Agile development, large scale software development including highly distributed teams, Open Source Software, Ruby, .NET and Web Services. During the last five years, Roy has provided management services to clients in the insurance, mortgage, energy, leasing, retail and software development industries. He has also directed multi-million dollar projects at clients including Caterpillar Financial Services, Dixons Group, Progressive Insurance and Transamerica. Roy's management style combines comprehensive study of emerging technologies, the ability to build highly motivated teams, strong personal determination and innovative flair. One of Roy's passions is evolving cultural and organisational patterns to create the most advanced internally and externally socially networked Consultancies in the industry. Roy studies and drives the innovative cultural changes that enable ThoughtWorks to remain the world's most influential company in the arena of bespoke business software development.

Shift Happens

Ken Sipe

Ken Sipe is a Technology Director with Perficient, Inc. (PRFT), IBM's largest service partner, where he leads multiple teams in the development of solutions in the SOA, Web 2.0 and portal domains, on both the Java and .Net platforms. Ken was the founder of CodeMentor, where he was the Chief Architect and Mentor, leading clients in the execution of RUP and Agile methodologies in the delivery of software solutions. He is a former trainer for Rational in OOAD and RUP, and a CORBA Visibroker trainer for Borland. He continues to enjoy providing training and mentoring in all aspects of software development. Ken has a deep need to be highly diversified. Ken often works with IT executives on high-level strategic roadmaps, currently geared around service oriented architectures (SOA). Ken also likes to keep his hands "dirty" in the code, which has him on a regular basis, pairing or otherwise producing code. Ken is regularly requested by clients that know him to "rescue" projects, either through the streamlining of processes or the rapid production of code. Ken is a certified JBoss developer and is a frequent participates on open source projects. Ken is currently interested in the growing maturity of SOA solutions in the open source space, such as the ESB solutions like ServiceMix and Mule, or rules engines such as JBossRules.

	Spring+JPA+Hibernate: Standards Meeting Productivity for Java Persiste
	SOAs Challenges
	Stop bouncing your server
	Spring 2.5 - Spring without XML

J Sripad

J Sripad is a Development Architect at SAP Labs India with 7 years of experience in sofware development. He is involved in the the development of Modeling Tools based on Eclipse in SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio, which is part of SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment product offering. His main area of expertise has been SAP Web Dynpro and SAP Visual Composer, both of which are Eclipse based Modeling Tools for developing UI applications for SAP NetWeaver Platform.

Modeling tools in Eclipse.

Thamaraiselvan

Thamaraiselvan is an Developer working with ThoughtWorks. He has over 7 years of experience in the design, development, and deployment of large-scale distributed object applications and the integration of disparate systems.  He is heavily involved in the Agile Community, consulting with companies on OO Design, patterns, testing techniques and development methodologies. He has in-depth knowledge in Java/J2EE middleware systems, database systems, web services, service oriented architecture and language porting to JVM.

The Da Vinci Machine (OpenJDK Multi Language Virtual Machine)

Alexander von Zitzewitz

Alexander von Zitzewitz is acting as managing director of the hello2morrow. He is bringing in more than 20 years of project and manangement experience. In 1993 he founded ootec – a company focussed on project services arround object oriented software technology. This company was sold to the French Valtech group in March 2000 and served customers like Siemens, BMW, Thyssen-Krupp-Stahl and other well known names from the German industry. From 2003 to the beginning of 2005 he was working as director of Central Europe for the French company Xcalia S.A. Besides working for hello2morrow Alexander has a seat in the supervisory board of 7Val AG in Cologne. Alexander has a diploma in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich.

A Couple of Golden Rules for Managing Your Architecture