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David Read

Welcome to my web site. My name is David Read. I am a son, husband, father, musician and computer software architect. I enjoy each of my roles as they give me opportunities to express different aspects of myself.

Contained in this site is a variety of information related to my background and current life. I hope there is something here that catches your interest in some way. Some of the more general information includes a few of my favorite recipes as well as some old material created when I was in college the first time.

If you would like to contact me, please use the feedback form located on the Contact page. Thank you for taking the time to visit.

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Speaking at JavaOne 2010

I am speaking at JavaOne 2010

Paul Evans and I will be speaking at this year's JavaOne conference in San Francisco. We haven't spoken at the conference in several years and are excited to have the opportunity to share some of our experiences with the attendees. As always we are looking forward to hearing what others are doing with all of the cool and evolving Java-based technologies. I am also curious to hear about the future plans for Java now that Oracle has taken the reins.

Our topic is Building an Order Checkout JAX-WS web service with JBoss Drools BRE Integration. We are presenting on Monday, September 20, 4:00PM at the Hilton San Francisco, Golden Gate 6/7.

We are describing and demonstrating a design and implementation of a fictional checkout web service for processing book orders. The web service will be designed and built using the JAX-WS stack and will integrate with the JBoss Drools business rule engine (BRE) using JSR-94. The Drools BRE will contain the actual business rules of processing the checkout of a book order.

This will be a great session for people looking for examples of rule engine integration within Java-based applications. After the conference we will make the demonstration source code available for people that would like to dig into the implementation.

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The CDJDN meets monthly and provides a great opportunity to meet other developers and learn about best practices and field experience with Java (and related) technologies. Please check the CDJDN website, located at http://cdjdn.com/, for information on upcoming meetings. Hope to see you at a future gathering!

A Thought That Resonates with Me

… well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the order of 70 percent) is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how advanced, can think for you. Consequently, even if a tool did everything except the thinking for you – if it wrote 100 percent of the code, wrote 100 percent of the documentation, did 100 percent of the testing, burned the CD-ROMs, put them in boxes, and mailed them to your customers – the best you could hope for would be a 30 percent improvement in productivity. In order to do better than that, you have to change the way you think.
-Fred Brooks (from No Silver Bullet found in The Mythical Man Month)

Recipes

I enjoy cooking. These days I don't have the opportunity to cook very much and I miss it. Here are a few recipes that I have inherited from prior generations. I hope you have a chance to enjoy one or more of them.

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