Paul Grenyer

Plenty of you will have heard me banging on about Cerberus recently and some will be wondering what it is, other than the multi-headed hound that guards Hades of course. Cerberus is an application I have been working on that monitors websites. Features so far include: URL checking at configurable intervals up to once a minute Measurement and recording of response times Email notification on URL failure Email notification on URL recovery I'm currently running a free trial for a handful of websites and it's going very well. If you would like me to monitor your site, please contact me and I will be happy to add you to the trial. Up and coming features include: Dashboard for user monitoring User configurable URLs URL statistics Automated reporting

Session title: Web Application Development with Spring, GWT and MVP Session type: Case Study / Experience Report Session duration: 90 Speaker: Paul Grenyer Biography: Paul has been programming in one form or another for over 20 years. After several years using C++ and a brief period using C#, Paul is now happy somewhere he hoped he'd never be, programming in Java. After time in industries such as marking machinery, direct mail, mobile phones, investment banking and Internet TV, Paul is currently working for a company based in Norwich where he heads up an ever growing team of senior and highly skilled people. When he's not programming and family life allows, Paul thoroughly enjoys science fiction, heavy metal and cycling. Session description: In Enterprise Web Application Development in Java with AJAX and ORMs (ACCU London March 2010 and ACCU2010) I spoke about how to develop and test a Data Access Layer and integrate it with a very simple Google Web Toolkit (GWT) based fr...

Session title: Agile is a journey not a destination. Session type: Case Study / Experience Report Session duration: 45 Speaker: Paul Grenyer Biography: Paul has been programming in one form or another for over 20 years. After several years using C++ and a brief period using C#, Paul is now happy somewhere he hoped he'd never be, programming in Java. After time in industries such as marking machinery, direct mail, mobile phones, investment banking and Internet TV, Paul is currently working for a company based in Norwich where he heads up an ever growing team of senior and highly skilled people. When he's not programming and family life allows, Paul thoroughly enjoys science fiction, heavy metal and cycling. Session description: I work for a young company that has made a big impact in its market and has quickly established a strong foothold and a growing reputation for product innovation and time-to-market delivery. A company that at times needed to be “more agile than agi...