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No Fluff Just Stuff eXchange 2007 - Speakers
Registration is open! Register here! Space is limited. Registration is accepted on first-come, first-served basis. Register early to guarantee your attendance. (Registration Fee includes: 3 Day All Access Pass, Syposium Binder with handouts from sessions you attend, CD with all presentational content, Meals and Snacks)


Ben Hale - Principal Consultant at Interface21
ben hale Ben Hale is a senior consultant for Interface21, the company behind the Spring Framework and the Spring family of products. Ben's specialties include middle tier architecture with an emphasis on integration technologies such as JMS and JMX. Leading up to his role at Interface21 Ben has led teams in the architecture and development of large-scale enterprise management applications. More...
Brian Sletten - Forward Leaning Software Consultant
brian sletten Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. He has a background as a system architect, a developer, a mentor and a trainer. His experience has spanned defense, finance and commercial domains with security consulting, network matrix switch controls, 3D simulation/visualization, Grid Computing, P2P and a Semantic Web-based system. More...
Dan Haywood - Lead committer to Naked Objects Framework
dan haywood Dan Haywood is well-known as an advocate of Naked Objects, having been a lead contributor for the past 5 years. He was instrumental in the success of the first large-scale Naked Objects systems which now delivers pensions and other benefits to over 250,000 senior citizens in Ireland. Dan is also lead developer of the Naked Objects IDE and a committer to the Naked Objects Framework. More...

David Geary - Co-author of "Core JSF"
david geary A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique qualification as a Java expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces (JSF). David's Graphic Java Swing was one of the best-selling Java books of all time and Core JSF, which David wrote with Cay Horstman, is the best-selling book on JavaServer Faces. More...

David Hussman - Agility Instructor/Mentor
david hussman David has been creating software for more than 15 years in a variety of domains: digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, financial, retail, and education to name a few. For the past 7 years, David has mentored and coached agile teams in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Russia, and Ukraine. More...
Dean H. Saxe - Managing Consultant at Foundstone
dean h. saxe Dean H. Saxe is a Managing Consultant at Foundstone, A Division of McAfee, where he is responsible for conducting web application penetration testing, threat modeling, code reviews, secure software development lifecycle (S-SDLC) design and implementation, and project management. Prior to joining Foundstone, Dean spent more than 8 years developing web application in Java and ColdFusion in a variety of industries. More...
Erik Doernenburg - Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks, Inc.
erik doernenburg Erik Doernenburg is a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks Inc. where he is helping clients with the design and implementation of large-scale enterprise solutions. Building on his experience with J2EE, Microsoft .NET and other environments, Erik is continually exploring patterns of enterprise software. He is an advocate of agile development and Open Source software, holds a degree in Informatics from the University of Dortmund and has studied Computer Science and Linguistics at the University College Dublin. More...
Geert Bevin - Sun Java Champion and Creator of Rife Application Framework
geert bevin Geert is a developer at Terracotta Inc., is the CEO and founder of Uwyn bvba/sprl and created the RIFE project which provides a full-stack Java Web application framework for quickly building maintainable applications. He started or contributed to open-source projects like Bla-bla List, OpenLaszlo, Drone, JavaPaste, Bamboo, Elephant, RelativeLayers, and Gentoo Linux. Geert is also an official Sun Java Champion. More...
Graeme Rocher - CTO of Skills Matter & Founder of the Grails Project
graeme rocher In Graeme's current role as CTO at Skills Matter, a skills transfer company specializing in Open Source technology and agile software development, Graeme is in charge of Skills Matter's courseware development strategy and general technical direction. As part of this role he actively works with a wide range of experts from the Open Source community and speaks at industry conferences whenever possible on subjects related to Groovy, Grails and dynamic languages in Java. More...
Joe Walker - Developer and consultant, Getahead Ltd.
joe walker Developer and consultant, Joe Walker, works on advanced development techniques such as Ajax. He recently developed DWR (Direct Web Remoting) which has become the most popular Ajax toolkit for Java, by making browser/server interaction intutive for web developers. Joe currently works through his consultancy, Getahead Ltd., which is supplying a growing number of customers with Ajax and advanced web solutions. More...
Mark Goodwin - Web Applications Security specialist
mark goodwin Mark Goodwin is a web applications security specialist at a major financial institution. Over the years Mark has worked in systems administration as well as applications software development on a variety of platforms from mobile handsets to mainframes. He now works in a team of application security specialists carrying out security testing, providing advice and training for software developers on security techniques and developing tools for security testing and events analysis. More...
Neal Ford - Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, Inc.
neal ford Neal Ford is an Application Architect for ThoughtWorks. He is an architect, designer, and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, and video/DVD presentations. More...
Paul Fremantle - Committer on Apache Synapse Project
paul fremantle Paul Fremantle is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and a committer on the Apache Synapse project. An expert on reliable messaging and lightweight SOA, Paul co-founded the SOA startup, WSO2 in 2005. He also plays the tin whistle. More...
Scott Davis - Author of "GIS for Web Developers" and "JBoss at Work"
scott davis Scott Davis is an author and independent consultant. He is passionate about open source solutions and agile development. He has worked on a variety of Java platforms, from J2EE to J2SE to J2ME (sometimes all on the same project). More...
Simon Ritter - Technology Evangelist
simon ritter Simon Ritter specialises in looking at emerging technologies including grid computing, RFID, wireless sensor networks, robotics and wearable computing. Simon has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brunel University in the U.K.Originally working in the area of UNIX development for AT&T UNIX System Labs and then Novell, Simon joined Sun in 1996 and started working with Java technology; he has spent time doing both Java development and consultancy. More...
Ted Neward - Author of Server-Based Java Programming and Effective Enterprise Java
ted neward Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 20-person shops. He speaks on the conference circuit, including the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium tour, discussing Java, .NET and XML service technologies, focusing on Java-.NET interoperability. More...
Venkat Subramaniam - Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.
venkat subramaniam Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and mentored more than 3000 software developers in the US, Canada, and Europe. More...


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