JohnStevenson, Author at JAXenter

JohnStevenson

John is the UK ambassador for Atlassian and active organiser of several communities in London. He runs workshops and speaks on technical topics including open source projects, developer tools, continuous delivery, TDD & BDD practices and declarative (functional) programming (Clojure). John also presents on kanban as a way to help individuals, teams and organisations become more effective. He is a strong advocate of group learning and encourages others to get involved with the community for their own personal growth.

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Getting started

Get up and running with Clojure

#clojure #groovy #java #java virtual machine #jruby #jvm #lein #leiningen #martin odersky #scala

John Stevenson helps us take our first steps with the functional and dynamic JVM language, in this taster of his Developer.Press title

New Release

JIRA 5 – a platform for collaborative Software Development

#atlassian #jira #jira 4 #jira 5 #kanban #scrum

Atlassian JIRA 5 has been released today, pushing the envelope for issue trackers. Jon Stevenson tells us more about what it can do

A glimpse into the crystal ball

Java Predictions for 2012 – the rise of Android and DevOps?

#android #asus terminator prime #devops #java #oracle #os #patric debois #quadcore

John Stevenson offers three predictions for the year ahead

The Year In Review

Java Review of the Year 2011 – the rise of the community

John Stevenson reflects on the year that was for the Java community – focusing on the rise of certain languages, the best events and conferences of the year and his own personal highlights.