Clinton Nixon

Clinton is a senior developer with Viget Labs in Durham, North Carolina. He has over 12 years of experience as a professional programmer, and has worked in environments from the NSA to a greeting card studio. A frequent contributor to open-source projects, Clinton is on the core team for the Radiant CMS and has had patches accepted in both the Python and JRuby projects. He is also an award-winning role-playing game designer and has shared a breakfast with George Takei.

Joe Campbell

In the real world, developers are often asked to cut corners to meet deadlines. Many times the cut corners end up making the end software product difficult to operate: either less easily monitored or brittle when coping with remote dependency failures. JRugged is a set of Java libraries that makes accounting for operability, reporting/monitoring and remote system status simple and easy to incorporate. In this talk we'll show how easily JRugged can make your code more "rugged" and production-ready.

Jon Moore

RESTful web services are one of our core design patterns. Fielding’s thesis identifies the major constraints that identify a RESTful architecture, including “hypertext as the engine of application state”. Many “RESTful” APIs adhere to the other architectural constraints but skip this part; we’ve begun experimenting with using XHTML as a media type for our APIs, and this provides a lot of power in terms of scalability and loose coupling between client and server. In this talk we’ll illustrate how to model APIs this way and show how it even becomes possible to “surf” an API from a browser.