This session discusses building Domain Specific Languages and DSL-style code in Java, C#, Groovy, and Ruby. It discusses the different types of DSLs, implementation details, and example problem domains where DSLs make sense. Throughout this session, I discuss the applicability of this style of development and show targeted examples.

This workshop explains all the hype surrounding Ruby on Rails, in a context familiar to Java developers. It covers convention over configuration, ActiveRecord, controllers, views, AJAX, scaffolding, testing, and deployment. This web framework for Ruby has appeared from nowhere to become the critics darling: there must be good reasons why. This session shows those reasons, in a context familiar to Java, .NET, and Delphi developers. It discusses how configuration works in Rails, persistence through ActiveRecord, scaffolding, controllers, views, and AJAX. It also covers the important topic of testing, and how Rails makes it easy and automatic. Finally, this session discusses deployment and reflects back on the important lessons that Rails teaches all developers.

David Intersimone "David I" (Vice President, Developer Relations and Chief Evangelist) at the opening keynote for EKON 11 / EuroDevCon 2007. David will give everyone an update on the Developer Tools Group.

In the next few years, a couple of trends will become obvious: building applications using multiple languages on managed runtimes (both Java and the CLR) and the desire for the joint goals of higher productivity and greater code confidence. This keynote ties these ideas together, presenting a clear vision of where Enterprise software development is heading and how to do it best.

David Intersimone "David I" (Vice President, Developer Relations and Chief Evangelist) for the Technology Keynote at EKON 11/EuroDevCon 2007. David will show Developer Tools Group products in action including demos of key capabilities of our existing products. You will also get the chance to see previews of what's cooking in the R&D labs at DTG.