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Sue Spielman

Sue Spielman is president and senior consulting engineer for Switchback Software LLC . Switchback Software provides a full range of software development and consulting services for enterprise business, web, and wireless applications. Sue is also the co-founder of Mobilogics LLC providing GPS/LBS solutions for mobile devices. Sue frequently speaks at industry conferences around the US and is the author of 'The Struts Framework: Practical Guide for Java Programmers', 'JSTL: Practical Guide for JSP Programmers', and 'The Web Conferencing Book'.

 

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Time to get JAOO'ed

Posted by sspielman on August 25, 2004 at 8:33 PM EDT

For the past couple of years I've been hearing about this really great conference in Denmark called JAOO. It's a developer to developer type event. I've had the honor of getting invited to speak this year so I'm really looking forward to seeing if all of the hype lives up to the reputation. Somehow, I think it will.

Stick a Fork In It

Posted by sspielman on February 13, 2004 at 1:30 PM EST

We all know the feeling of post conference-idous, when you need to decompress from all of the exciting things you learned about and figure out what was real and what was just flat out cool. After attending ETech, I thought, why decompress when we can just continue to transform. This conference has been like the weather in the States in Denver, CO.

How Many Friends Do We Really Need?! - ETech on Social Software

Posted by sspielman on February 12, 2004 at 12:56 AM EST

This place is a riot. I met three people today that said, “Well I was only coming for Monday, but this is so cool I decided to stay for Tuesday. Now it’s Wednesday, and I think I’ll stay till tomorrow.” That’s the kind of energy going on around here at ETech.

Why It Is Great To Be A Geek

Posted by sspielman on February 11, 2004 at 2:13 AM EST

There are times when it’s fun to be a geek, and then there are times when it’s great to be a geek. I go to a lot of conferences throughout the year, and I have to say, if there is only one conference that I get to pick to go to, it’s going to be ETech. It is the very reason why it’s great to be a geek.

ETech 2004 Kicks Off

Posted by sspielman on February 10, 2004 at 12:52 AM EST

O’Reilly has gathered quite the diverse crowd at the Emerging Tech conference this week taking place in San Diego. Where else could you be exposed to a digital democracy teach-in and relativistic time dilation in the same place?

MIDP 2.0 - Fun yes, but not just games

Posted by sspielman on January 15, 2004 at 7:06 PM EST

Java Highlights from Borcon

Posted by sspielman on November 6, 2003 at 2:06 PM EST

I’ve been spending most of this week speaking on the J2EE 1.4 web foundation and the JSTL out in San Jose, CA at Borcon. Borland’s conference is always fun because you have the various technology camps - Java, .NET, Delphi, and C++ - all sitting together at lunch have perfectly normal conversations and not throwing things at each other.

Being Pragmatic

Posted by sspielman on October 27, 2003 at 3:44 PM EST

I just got back from a weekend of speaking in Atlanta, GA at the No Fluff Just Stuff conference. I've missed the last few because of my work schedule, but it was good to be back and to get a chance to talk with lots of the attendees about cool things they are working on.

Dear John…er...I Mean Debugger

Posted by sspielman on October 1, 2003 at 9:09 PM EDT

Dear John…er...I mean Debugger:

Outsourcing in my company? I do not think so.

Posted by sspielman on August 19, 2003 at 2:20 PM EDT

I just got a phone call from a perfectly nice woman who proceeded to ask me about my company’s IT needs. While on the surface this could have been any number of solicitation calls that I get on a regular basis; this one really struck a nerve from the get-go.