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Slaying the Legacy Dragon: Practical Lessons in Replacing Old Software
Everyone hates the legacy application and wants to replace it. You're tired of the brittle, untested code, the outdated frameworks, the platform nobody cares about anymore. You want to apply current practices and the productivity gains of today's tools. Usually this is just a frustrated dream, but every once in a while, you actually get to do it. That's great news, but it raises a question: how do you do that? In this session, we'll go through a simulated case study of a business undertaking the enormous effort of replacing a key legacy application with a new technology stack. We'll explore the technology, business, and people problems that can result, looking at specific technology solutions for a slow and careful migration of business-critical functionality off of one system and on to another of a very different kind. Bring your legacy migration questions for a great discussion.
Tim Berglund
Tim Berglund runs a consulting firm called the August Technology Group, which provides training and development services to customers building web applications with open-source tools running on the JVM. He likes it best when these include Groovy and Grails.
His technology interests span web applications, business integration, data architecture, and software architecture, but his greatest passion is to help developers improve in their craft. He is a speaker internationally and at user groups in the United States, and helps lead IASA Denver and the Denver Open Source User Group. He is currently writing the book,Deploying Grails (to be published by O'Reilly), due out in 2010.
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5:00 - 5:30 Social
including food and drinks.
5:30 - 7:00 Presentation |
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WEA Trust
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From the Beltline, take the Rimrock Road exit and head in the direction away from the Alliant Energy Center towards the Badger Bowl. Turn LEFT at the stop lights onto East Badger Road. You will pass right in front of the Badger Bowl. Take the first LEFT onto Nob Hill Road. You will go in a half circle winding to the right. You will see Holmes Tire on the right side of the street. The WEA Trust building is the next building.
Click here for the Directions to WEA Trust's office
Please park in the visitor parking lots in the front of the building and enter through the front of the building.
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Special Offers for JUG members:
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Sun Certified Training:
TeamSoft has established a special discount for Java User Group members, offering you a 15% discount on any public training class, including all Sun Certified courses, that are taught at the TeamSoft Training Center! Class must be booked through TeamSoft to be eligible. Please check out our training at www.teamsoftinc.com/teamsoft/public/training_services.jsp. (offer subject to change without notice)
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