Matt Stine

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Matt is the Group Leader of Research Application Development in the Research Informatics Division of Information Sciences at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital here in Memphis, TN. Matt has been developing and supporting enterprise Java applications in support of life sciences research for St. Jude since 2001. Matt is a committer to multiple open source projects and is the founding member of the Memphis/Mid-South JUG. Matt earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Mississippi, and was a graduating member of the inaugural class of the Sally McDonnell-Barksdale Honors College. His current areas of interest include Groovy/Grails, cloud computing, Java concurrency, and functional programming.

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  • I’m in the zone…Agile Zone.

    My apologies to my colleagues down the street at AutoZone, but I just had to do that. I recently accepted the role of Agile Zone Leader at DZone.com. For the past few weeks I’ve been publishing a couple of articles a week on various agile development topics. I’m very happy to get the extra exposure [...]
  • Two new NFJS talks for this fall!

    I’m excited to announce that I am working up two brand new talks for this Fall to go along side my regular fare. Both of these talks are already scheduled for shows in Boston, MA and Seattle, WA. The first talk is entitled “The Seven Wastes of Software Development.” We’ll begin by examining one of [...]
  • NFJS Fall 2010: What do you want to learn?

    Hi everyone! I’m currently in the process of developing new talks for my Fall 2010 NFJS tour dates. While I don’t know yet where I’ll be speaking, I can tell you that I’ve registered availability for the following shows: Boston, MA Seattle, WA Atlanta, GA Minneapolis, MN Chicago, IL Denver, CO So, if you’re in [...]
  • Don’t build software that’s TOO smart!

    I had an extremely successful meeting with one of our clients yesterday. We were discussing how we wanted to go about migrating her laboratory from its current system (one that we built several years ago) to our new lab management platform. At some point during the discussion I made the statement, “We tried to make [...]
  • Announcing NOSQL Summer Memphis

    I recently stumbled across the NOSQL Summer website via my friend Alex Miller’s blog. The idea is to setup a summer reading club focused around databases and distributed systems. Groups will gather “worldwide” to discuss various papers and the hopefully submit the substance of their discussions back to the NOSQL Summer website in the form [...]