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JAX LONDON 2010 22-02-10
Skills Matter is pleased to support JAX London 2010, an exciting conference on web and enterprise development taking place on 22-24 February! The event provides an ideal forum for software developers, project managers and architects to learn about the latest Technology, Architecture and Agile Methodologies. It is this very special blend of topics which has made JAX the conference of choice in Germany, India and Asia since its conception in 2001.
Skills Matter filmed some of the Jax talks. Click on the more... link to watch the podcasts!
Monday 22nd February 2010
Track 1
PAX EXAM 2.0 – TESTING IN THE CLOUD
 Toni Menzel: In this talk, Toni Menzle explains the new idea brewing underneath the new version of PaxExam, 2.0 – a tool used to ease testing of OSGi frameworks and applications. View the podcast here...
DECLARATIVE SERVICES: DEPENDENCY INJECTION OSGI STYLE
Felix Meschberger: In this talk, Felix Meschberger presents a powerful but straightforward method of dependency injection (as defined by the OSGi Compendium Declarative Services specification). View the podcast here...
OSGI-BASED WORKFLOW ENGINE
Doreen Seider: In this talk Doreen Seider introduces a platform developed during an aeronautics project, RCE. She presents it as a distributed OSGi-based software integration platform to provide a workflow engine, whereby all information about its workflow component (inputs and outputs) are described declaratively. View the podcast here...
SCALA, GROOVY, JRUBY, CLOJURE - WHICH JVM LANGUAGE IS FOR YOU?
  Guillaume LaForge & Dierk Koenig: In this discussion, panel members Dierk König, Guillaume Laforge (Groovy), Charles Nutter (JRuby), Stefan Tilkov (Clojure) and Ted Neward (Scala) discuss with the audience the pros and cons of the popular JVM-based lanauges Scala, Groovy, JRuby and Clojure in order to attempt to reach a verdict of rank. View the podcast here...
AGILE COACHING SECRETS
 Rachel Davies: You want to guide your team to become more Agile and learn how to get the best from powerful new practices, such as Test-Driven Development and User Stories. View the podcast here...
THOUGHTS ON THE GENERIC VS. SPECIFIC TRADEOFF
Stefan Tilkov: In this talk, Stefan will illustrate how this problem manifests itself in many different scenarios, outline the pros and cons of both the extreme as well as in-the-middle solutions, and derive a guideline on how to deal with it. View the podcast here...
PRAGMATIC ARCHITECTURE RECIPES FOR CLOUD COMPUTING
Stefan Tilkov: Cloud Computing, the industry's next big buzzword, is applied liberally to ensure services and products are perceived as being cool and innovative. View the podcast here...
IRRESPONSIBLE ARCHITECTURES
 Dan North: Since the very first days of software we have been developing strategies to support ever bigger and more complex application requirements. View the podcast here...
DM SERVER 2.0
Glyn Normington: dm Server is a modular open source application server based on OSGi. It supports standard WAR files and modular webapps comprising OSGi bundles. View the podcast here...
CREATING PROXIMITY OVER A DISTANCE
 Jutta Eckstein: Agility asks for face-to-face communication, trust and collaboration. Proximity can be created by travelling - at least sometimes. Virtual communication channels provide another possibility overcoming the distance. View the podcast here...
EFFECTIVE USE OF AGILE-TRAC FOR DISTRIBUTED AGILE PROJECTS
Jamie Allsop: There are many tools available to help with agile development. Agile-Trac (http://www.agile-trac.org) is a free and open-source extension to the popular trac open source project management tool. Unlike other open-source offerings Agile-Trac aims to offer a complete solution for supporting agile projects. View the podcast here...
INDIVIDUALS AND INTERACTIONS OVER PROCESSES AND TOOLS
 Kevlin Henney: Although it is a simple value, the idea that individuals and interactions are more significant than processes and tools is overlooked perhaps more often than it is valued. View the podcast here...
AGILE REBOOTED
Immo Hüneke: How was the exercise structured and what did the team members gain from it? How successful is this model? View the podcast here...
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