Tim Berglund

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Tim Berglund runs a consulting firm called the August Technology Group, which provides training and development services to customers building web applications with open-source tools running on the JVM. He likes it best when these include Groovy and Grails.

His technology interests span web applications, business integration, data architecture, and software architecture, but his greatest passion is to help developers improve in their craft. He is a speaker internationally and at user groups in the United States, and helps lead IASA Denver and the Denver Open Source User Group. He is currently writing the book, Deploying Grails (to be published by O'Reilly), due out in 2010.

He lives in Littleton, CO with the wife of his youth and their three children.

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  • Oh, The Methods You’ll Compose

    When I read Kent Beck’s Implementation Patterns a few years ago, what struck me was not merely its detailed advice on how to write handsome methods and pick good names for things, but rather a deeper insight that it offers. The central argument of the book is that it is both more difficult and more [...]
  • Great India Developer Summit 2011

    I never sleep well on the road. Going to the other side of the planet doesn’t help, but sometimes there are more important things to do than sleep. The Great India Developer Summit provides plenty of them. It’s a four-day show, held this year at the National Science Seminar Complex in Bangalore, India. At the [...]
  • SDC 2011

    A week ago I had the privilege of speaking at the 2011 Scandinavian Developer Conference. This was my second year at the show. The Friday before the conference, Matthew McCullough and I put on a one-day public Git training workshop in Gothenburg, which was very well received. It’s always fun sharing the stage with Matthew. [...]
  • You have 1,000 Cores. Go.

    Intel is talking about a radically scalable processor design that can do 48 cores today, and lots more tomorrow. The architecture for the Intel 48-core Single Chip Cloud Computer (SCC) processor is “arbitrarily scalable,” said Intel researcher Timothy Mattson, during a talk at the Supercomputer 2010 conference being held this week in New Orleans. “This [...]
  • Managing Tomcat with JMX

    I’ve put together a screen cast showing how to configure Tomcat and VisualVM for a secure JMX connection using self-signed certificates and a password. You can download it as a Quicktime video here: Managing Tomcat with JMX (43.4MB, 1024×768) This is a slightly cleaned-up version of some video in a talk I gave at SpringOne [...]