Category: Presentations

Java / J2EE and .NET Talk

At the September 2003 Gateway JUG, I gave a talk on the similarities and differences between Java/J2EE and .NET.

At the Sep. 2003 Gateway Java User Group, I gave a talk on the technical similarities and differences between Java/J2EE and .NET, as well as the non-technical issues in adoption of each. The presentation is available for download here, as well as the plain text of it.

Java / .NET Talk PowerPoint Presentation: J2eeNET.ppt

In the past, readers have asked how I got the text of a powerpoint presentation in to plain HTML. This is a multi-step process, since PowerPoint itself generates graphic-intensive, frames-based HTML with limited, JavaScript-only navigation. PowerPoint lost the ability to generate more reader-friend HTML in recent versions. In its defense, the HTML it generates does a good job of capturing the exact look of the slides, which is very important to some users but not important to me; I want the plain text so that search engines can find it and any browser can read it.

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Attacking Code Duplication in Java

An important principle of XP is that duplication of ideas in source code is to be avoided. I gave a talk at the XPSTL group on this topic.

On Feb. 5, 2003, I gave a talk at XPSTL about code duplication in Java. The presentation is available for download here, as well as the plain text of it. If you download the presentation, you’ll find the code snippets inside. The samples did not come along for the (very rough) plain text export below.

http://kylecordes.com/files/OAOOinJava.ppt

Attacking Code Duplication in Java

Kyle Cordes, Oasis Digital Solutions Inc.

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Introduction to the Ruby Language

Presentation and notes from a talk on the Ruby language to the St. Louis Unix User Group.

On June 12, 2002, I gave a talk at the St. Louis Unix user group introducing the Ruby language. The presentation is available for download here:

http://kylecordes.com/files/IntroToRuby.ppt

The text of the presentation, without useful formatting also appears here, so that search engines (particularly the one I need to add to this web site) will be able to find it.

We don’t use Ruby much (yet?) at Oasis Digital, but there are some interesting and useful ideas in it; I recommend looking it to expand your exposure to what’s possible in language design, even if you don’t need or plan to use yet another scripting language.

Addendum: Oasis Digital’s resident “Pythonista” pointed out that like Ruby, Python now supports multiple inheritance and garbage collection (not just reference counting).

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Test Intensive Development in Delphi

Slides from a Birds of a Feather session at BorCon 2001

At the 2002 Borland Conference, I presented a “Birds of a Feather” session on Test Intensive Development in Delphi. A couple of dozen people attended, in spite of the early morning time slot. Most of the attendees were new to test intensive development, though a few were experienced in it and shared useful tips.

My introductory talk and demo was adversely impacted by a technical problem with the projector and missing microphone; hopefully this slightly expanded set of slides will fill in the gaps that caused.

Download TID-Delphi-BOF-Borcon-2002.ppt

Design Considerations in a Mobile/ Wireless Application

Mobile / Wireless applications must let the user get work done even with a network connection is not available. That and other consideration were covered in this talk to the St. Louis Wireless SIG meeting.

On April 23, 2002, I gave a talk at the St. Louis Web-developers Wireless SIG (what a mouthful!) on design considerations in a mobile/wireless application. The slides from that are available at:

http://kylecordes.com/files/DesignConsidMobile.zip

Of course, there was much more in the talk (a very full 90 minutes) than is shown in the slides; hopefully they are useful nonetheless.