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Joe O'brienApril 13, 11:00am - 12:00pm

Joe O'Brien is a developer with ThoughtWorks, an organization with a history of successfully building enterprise applications using Agile Development. He has spent my career as a developer, project manager, and everything in between. His passion for open source technologies and development has been strong since he began his IT career. Joe is very active in the open source community and local users groups. Recently, he founded the Columbus Ruby Brigade and have helped organize the Chicago Area Ruby Users Group.

His passions are Agile Development in the Enterprise, Ruby, and demonstrating to the Fortune 500 the elegance and power of this incredible language. Joe is currently working on a book for the Pragmatic Programmers on Ruby and SOA.
Enterprise SOA with Rails

Use the world's best platform for web development inside the enterprise. I show how developers can harness the power of Rails for web development, without having to rewrite all of their legacy .NET and Java applications. I get them to work together in a symphony of messages in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Taking items directly from my upcoming book, I demonstrate how a developer would take the Rails Depot application (created in Agile Web Development with Rails) and tie it into an existing Java inventory system using SOA. SOA is something previously only discussed by architects and sales people. I bring SOA down to the developers, cutting through the marketing-mess and getting to what's important: creating a loosely-coupled, highly available enterprise system.
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September 8th, 2006

Getting Started with Rails, Vancouver, BC

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