SD West 2009 Preview Guide

ADVISORY BOARD Scott W. Ambler is a Practice Leader, Agile Development at IBM. An industry-recognized software process improvement expert, he is the practice leader of the Agile Modeling, Agile Data, Agile Unified Process and Enterprise Unified Process methodologies. Scott is the (co)-author of several books, including Refactoring Databases (Addison-Wesley, 2006), Agile Modeling (John Wiley & Sons, 2002), Agile Database Techniques (John Wiley & Sons, 2003), The Object Primer 3rd Edition (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and The Enterprise Unified Process (Prentice Hall, 2005). Scott is a contributing editor with Dr. Dobb's Journal. Michèle Leroux Bustamante is principal software architect of IDesign Inc., Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, Microsoft MVP for XML Web Services and BEA Technical Director. She has more than a decade of development experience, developing applications with VB, C++, Java, C# and VB.NET, and has worked with related technologies such as ATL, MFC and COM. At IDesign, Michèle provides training, mentoring and high-end architecture consulting services, focusing on Web services, scalable and secure architecture design for .NET and interoperability. She is a member of the International .NET Speakers Association (INETA), a frequent conference presenter, conference chair of SD’s Web Services/SOA track and is frequently published in major technology journals. Michèle is also Web Services Program Advisor to UCSD Extension, and is the .NET Expert for SearchWebServices.com. Reach her at mlb@idesign.net, or visit www.idesign.net and www.dotnetdashboard.net. Jonathan Erickson has been editor-in-chief of Dr. Dobb’s Journal since 1988. Before joining DDJ, Jon was senior west coast editor for BYTE and senior editor for Osborne/ McGraw-Hill books. He is the author of ten books, ranging from graphics programming to organic gardening. Ellen Gottesdiener, principal of EBG Consulting Inc., is a consultant, facilitator and trainer helping project teams explore requirements, shape their development processes and collaboratively plan and improve their work. Ellen has extensive experience as a professional workshop facilitator with particular focus on positively and productively engaging software development and business experts in defining and achieving shared goals through chartering, requirements and retrospective workshops. She has presented at many industry conferences and authored numerous papers on software development requirements, workshops, methods and modeling. She provides practical, experience-based seminars to clients in a wide variety of industries. Ellen’s experiences as an agile requirements facilitator are articulated in her book Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs (Addison-Wesley, 2002). Christian Gross is a consultant with vast experience in the client/server world. He has consulted for Microsoft on DNA solutions, and he has held consulting positions with Daimler Benz, Microsoft, NatWest and other major corporations. Christian is the author of numerous books, including the forthcoming Ajax and REST Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Apress), Ajax Patterns and Best Practices (Apress), Foundations of ObjectOriented Programming Using .NET 2.0 (Apress), How to Code .NET and A Programmer's Introduction to Windows DNA. Gross was a contributor to Professional Active Server Pages, Professional SQL Server 6.5 Administration, Professional NT Internet Information Server Administration, and Programming Microsoft Windows 2000 Unleashed. Stuart Dabbs Halloway is a cofounder of Relevance, LLC. Relevance provides consulting, training and development services for Ruby, Rails, Ajax and Agile Java. Stuart is the author of Component Development for the Java Platform and regularly speaks at industry events including the No Fluff, Just Stuff Java Symposiums, the Pragmatic Studio and SD West. Elliotte Rusty Harold is an internationally respected writer, programmer, and educator. He lectures about Java and object-oriented programming at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn. His Cafe au Lait website has become one of the most popular independent Java sites on the Internet, and his spin-off site Cafe con Leche has become one of the most popular XML sites. He is the author of numerous books, most recently: Processing XML with Java from Addison-Wesley and XML in a Nutshell from O’Reilly. Allen Holub has worked in the computer industry since 1979. He now works as a consultant, helping companies not squander money on software. He provides training in OO design and Java and provides designprocess mentoring and design-review services, technical due-diligence, and even writes programs 2 Register Today at SDExpo.com http://www.SearchWebServices.com http://www.idesign.net http://www.dotnetdashboard.net http://www.dotnetdashboard.net http://www.SDExpo.com

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