Álvaro Justen

Also known as Turicas, he is a Telecommunications Engineering student at Universidade Federal Fluminense. He has been a GNU/Linux user for over eight years, activist for free software, Python programmer and developer for the web2py project. During his academic life, he has been part of the Tutorial Education Program (PET-Tele) and IF-UFF research group for statistical and computational physics.

Henrique Bastos

Henrique is a passionate software developer! He is the director of technology for Myfreecomm, creating applications using Agile Methodologies, Python and Free Software. He is constantly present in the software comunities, organizing events and meetings, speaking, training and evangelizing about sustainable software development in and outside of Brazil. He was one of the organizers for DevInRio 2009 and the PythonCampus caravan that visits universities and promotes the integration of students and the software industry through Free Software.

Rafael Lima

Co-founder of BielSystems and Empreenda Web and director of Myfreecomm, he has been working with software development for over ten years. Although he still writes code, he bas been mostly involved in management and strategic decisions involving his projects. He has chosen Ruby on Rails for all of the applications developed by BielSystems.

Ruby on Rails is successful, there are many products deployed in production all around the world, and we have strong think-tanks as developers in this community, influencing many other different communities. But the path that Rails has taken was neither simple nor stable, we had several bumps along the way. It is worth to take a look back in history to understand how we came to be, and the values and way of thinking of this community, in order to grasp the path forward and why we are still using Ruby.

Fábio Akita

One of the most active Ruby on Rails envangelists in Latin America, he organized back in 2007 the first Rails conference in Brazil, RejectConf in São Paulo, and most recently organized Rails Summit Lating America in 2009. Writes regulary on his blog AkitaOnRails.com about software development, Ruby on Rails and other things. He also helps evangelize about new technologies and the agile philosophy.

Show why the Management Agile / Lean is gaining ground against the Traditional Project Management, presenting the fundamentals of management Agile Projects with Scrum, its principles, values, and the reasons in which teams that have implemented Scrum has consistently improved their productivity by up to 4x, the quality of their products, quality of life for its members, and the value delivered to organization. We will be discussing what are the steps to implement Scrum on their teams for software development and how their team and your organization can benefit from the adoption of Scrum.

Juan Bernabó

Juan Esteban Bernabo is Founder and Primary Consultant of the TeamWare Brazil, a consulting firm focused on helping organizations software development to optimize their processes, create assets software, adopting agile processes and make effective use of theobject technology. Brought to Brazil the first experience Official training with Scrum open. Worked for over 22 years in development of highly effective software teams, product definition, design, management and coordination development teams, product architecture, architecture software, policy development and evaluation of recycled products OpenSource for integration with commercial products.

This is not a conventional talk. This is a theatrical play that will tell the story of a software developer that is struggling with bugs, unrealistic estimates and other problems, as opposed to another one that practices Test Driven Development.

Sylvestre Mergulhão

Active member of the #horaextra community in Rio de Janeiro. Writes on his personal blog mergulhao.info. CTO for the classifieds website Redeparede. He founded Helabs Consulting in 2010, to provide agile consultancy and training.

 

Henrique Andrade

Coordinator for the division of Development of Systems for the Coordination of distance-learning for the State University of Rio de Janeiro (CEAD-UNIRIO). Holds a BS degree in Information Systems and its currently pursuing a master's degre in Computer and Systems Engineering at COPPE-UFRJ. He also teaches Entrepreneurship and Professional Ethics for the Technology in Computer Systems course at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)

Vinícius Teles

Founder of Improve It. He is the author of the first brazilian book about XP and has coached and mentored teams for several years. He has been working with Rails since 2006. By the end of 2007 his company switched to a new business model where they now develop products for the web. Vinicius earns his living from clients' subscriptions for his company's main product, Be on the Net.

Talk on the new trends in client side web development, including several HTML 5 concepts and the JavaScript API.

Leonardo Balter

Evangelist for client side technologies and web standards. Currently working as a software developer for Hi Midia and jQuery instructor for iLearn. Member of the W3C. Promotes a campaign for the use of web standards in order to provide a better integration between different browsers and platforms as well as providing compatibility with mobile devices.

Emerson Macedo

Software architect/developer with over 12 years of experience. Currently works at Globo.com, in Rio de Janeiro. Has participated in projects in the fields of telecommunications, insurance, banks, portals and others. Agile methodology enthusiast, also works as a teacher for universities' extension courses. Writes regularly on his technology blog codificando.com and on visão ágil.

Symfony is a Object Oriented MVC PHP framework focused on rapid web application development. This talk will present this framework and show examples of how he can help developers create their own products in a fast and elegant way.

Luã de Souza

Enthusiast of the agile framework Symfony and Wordpress. Partner and developer of Tapronto group, works with PHP for 6 years and with Symfony for 3. Always looking for projects that exercise creativity and that contribute to the web in any form.

 

Caike Souza

Software developer at EnvyLabs, in Florida, Caike spends his time between the computer and his guitars. Participates in several communities and believes small acts make great revolutions. He also helps run the Orlando Dojo, which brings together the local community and promotes software development best practices.

We developers promise ourselves loose coupling with different architectural styles and usually find ourselves repeatedly breaking all consumers after a new server release. This first part will show how REST can decrease coupling in different architectural styles, and its focus on a system that allows for the evolution of both sides, independently. Also, we'll see examples of systems that the thought is based on their characteristics as resources, stateless, hypermedia and etc.

In the end, remember: there is no silver bullet, but there is the bag man.

Guilherme Silveira

Technical leader for Caelum, pursuing his applied mathematics degree in USP, created VRaptor in 2003 along with Paulo Silveira and most recenlty created Restfulie. Currently focusing in the implementation of system integration through the use of REST API's and its positive impact in clients's business plans. He is a commiter for projects like Restfulie, XStream, Paranamer an Waffle, focusing in Java and Ruby. He is also responsible for the training content at Caelum.

This talk will cover:
- how you can write testable javascript code.
- what is a Mock in term os of unit tests and how to run this via client side.
- some of the most popular testing and Mocking tools and
- testing philosophy in other languages, like Python, brought to client side code.

Márcio Santana

Developing since 2001, having worked with PERL, ASP, .NET JavaScript and Python. Promotes the use of JavaScript as a functional language. Currently working as senior developer at Globo.com, where he tries to apply his server side development expertise to client side code.