Java developers have widely adopted test first software development strategies. Unit test frameworks for Java, Web services, Ajax, REST, Service Oriented Architecture, and Flash/Action Script show the diversity of adoption among Java developers. In this session, Frank will take Java developers throug...

There are a number of publications talking about the benefits of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and an equal number of papers and articles suggesting that the aims of a SOA are a little too theoretical. SOA cannot be implemented, they claim, so they suggest a few workarounds. This session will...

Dave explored the boundary between what is classified as a batch and what is not and shows that it can be blurred for business or technical reasons.

Offline processing is a feature of almost all IT projects of any size. Often there is a natural business reason to group items for processin...

Rob Purcell and Manoj Bajaj of UBS will give a talk on, reliable database/messaging transactions without 2PC

Kirk Pepperdine will give a talk on Performancing Tuning, Kirk Pepperdine is a principle consultant for Kodewerk where he has focused on performance tuning. He has been involved with object technologies and performance for almost 20 years

During the March LRUG meeting, Kresten Krab Thorup, track host and speaker at both QCon and RubyFools gave us an overview of the issues, trade-offs and challenges in making dynamic object-oriented languages run effectively; both in general, and specifically making Ruby run well on the JVM. Kresten ha...

Ganesh Sittampalam will present the Haskell User Group and will talk about Concurrent & Multicore Haskell and about the Haskell User Group

As part of the December 2008 LRUG meeting, Matthew Rudy Jacobs introduces the topic he's been working on for the past few weeks: taking features that already exist in other languages and implementing them in Ruby. It is a very informative presentation whereby he guides you through the reasons why it ...

With the emergence of Ajax as a preferred way of building web user interfaces, JavaServer Faces (JSF) has proved itself to be a natural fit for integrating Ajax with Java sever-side logic. JSF allows you to build Ajax applications without worrying about the complexities of JavaScript and DHTML. Howev...

Java developers have widely adopted test first software development strategies. Unit test frameworks for Java, Web services, Ajax, REST, Service Oriented Architecture, and Flash/Action Script show the diversity of adoption among Java developers. In this session, Frank will take Java developers throug...

At this London JavaScript Meetup, Michael Mathews will talk about Unit Testing in JavaScript. Creating unit tests in JavaScript is easier than you probably think and will make the job of building and debugging your application faster, easier and more reliable. This talk will include a short introduc...

Mark Thomas, a senior software engineer from SpringSource and the leading contributor to Tomcat security, talks about how security vulnerabilities are handled by the Tomcat team and how end users are served while preventing security problems.

Mark discusses how using an open source projec...