Living Software - Instil’s Team Blog

Here are the slides from my Spring Ireland presentation, given just before Rod Johnson’s keynote.

I had no idea what Rod was going to talk about, but having spent the past year developing an OSGi and Spring DM based application framework, I thought it would make an interesting diversion to talk about this rather than your usual Spring and JEE enterprise application .   Interestingly, immediately after my own presentation, Rod proceeded to enthuse about this hugely powerful combination, essentially validating a lot of choices we made way back when Spring DM was still in beta.

Little did we know at the time that Spring Source would be announcing their own OSGi and Spring DM based application platform only a matter of weeks later.  The hints were there in the keynote, but no more than that. 

I should point out that there is little cross-over in Spring’s offering and the framework that we have been working on - they are 2 completely different beasts.  In upcoming posts, I intend talking a little more about this framework and about the many technical humps that had to be overcome in its development.

It’s ambitious, but at the start of September we will be taking a group of non-IT graduates on a 3 week journey into the wonderful world of programming and software engineering. Starting from first principals, our goal is to instil the know-how and passion for creating great software and working applications.

The course will cover everything from programming fundamentals (with Java), testing, tools, web application development, databases (and SQL), building, configuration management (and SVN), use-casing, prototyping, and the software lifecycle. Delegates will also get a chance to create a mini-application from the ground up, using their newly acquired knowledge, with the instructor acting as the customer.

This is one of a number of induction courses that we have supplied to Liberty IT over the years, and thankfully they continue to be extremely pleased with the value and quality of our training. But there is no doubting the ambitiousness of this course - taking a group of newbies and converting them into solid engineers over 3 intensive weeks is a huge challenge, but a challenge that we are extremely excited about!

Well here it is at last, our new look website. First of all many thanks to the good folks at Streamon for the overall design and CSS. And all in return for a little of our .NET development expertise.

Looking ahead, we will continue to combine our joint design and programming expertise in future work. Needless to say, if you like this site and would like to have your own updated, then feel free to work through us.

As an fyi, this site is a mixture of static content (.htm files) and dynamic content, driven through Wordpress.