Tuesday November 12th 5:30-8:00PM
(Doors open at 5:30 for registration, meeting starts at 6:00PM)
$5.00 Admission Open to the Public
(Free to employees of The Hartford and full time students with college ID)
Hartford Insurance Company
Synopsis The last decade or so has been one of technology churn. We’ve seen client/server, CORBA, J2EE, COM, .NET and a host of other enterprise platforms appear or fade from view, or both. Keeping up with resulting alphabet soup is a full time job, even without applications to ship.
But amongst all of this churn, some techniques stay relatively constant. So we’ve been trying to identify these common patterns and taking note of how we use the ideas from one technology and use similar, but not the same designs in others. In this talk we’ll explore a number of these patterns. We’ll touch on various topics including layering, business logic organization, database mapping, webserver design, and session state management. The talk is based on the material at http://martinfowler.com/isa
Martin Fowler spoke to COOUG in 2000 at our October 10th meeting. He is Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks, an internet systems integration and consulting company. For a decade he was an independent consultant pioneering the use of objects in developing business information systems. He’s worked with technologies including Smalltalk, C++, object and relational databases, and EJB with domains including leasing, payroll, derivatives trading and healthcare. He is particularly known for his work in patterns, the UML, lightweight methodologies, and refactoring.
Synopsis This talk will present a proven plan for adding agility to the database (starting with making the DBA a true member of the team). Participants will be shown how the application database can be structured to provide each team member with control of their own data space (similar to individual application instances). Pramod will explain, in detail, how processes and tools can be used to make the database more manageable and open to Refactoring. Finally, Pramod will address the issue of applications that are already in production, and detail how agility still can apply to production environments.
Pramod Sadalage is a Data Architect and Lead DBA at ThoughtWorks. At present he is working on a large J2EE application, which uses XP, an agile methodology that has not been sufficiently discussed in the context of databases. While on this project, he pioneered the practices and processes of Agility in the database. Pramod endeavors to write and speak about these concepts and practices and make it easy for everyone to use agile practices in regard to databases. Pramod has worked with a variety of Relational Databases including Oracle, MS SQL, Informix, and Sybase. He has more than eight years of experience with various domains including financial, leasing, material management, and insurance. Pramod has written and presented information/concepts about database administration on Extreme Programming project, the adoption of agile processes with regards to databases, and agile development's impact upon database administration.
Further Meeting Information
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