Publishing and Speaking credits

 
Dave Orchard has a variety of teaching, speaking and authoring credits and forthcoming plans
Spring 1999 
Speaker at InternetWorld Spring, LA.
Late 1998 
Article on Java and Transactions, magazine TBD
October 18-22nd, 1998 
Speaker at SIGS Conference for Java Development.  Dave spoke on three topics: Enterprise Java Beans,  Java and server-side objects, and the convergence of XML and Java.
July 11th, 1998 
Speaker at InternetWorld Summer, Chicago.  The topic was Network Computing Architectures.
June 29th, 1998 
Speaker at SIGS Object Expo Europe, London. Dave spoke on two occasions.  The first is about Java and server-side objects, the second is about the convergence of XML and Java.
May, 1998 
Article for Object Magazine on Enterprise Java Beans.
April, 1998 
Article for Object Magazine, the convergence of Java, XML and the Web.
March 9, 1998 
Speaker at SIGS Object Expo NY.  Dave spoke on two occasions.  The first is about Java and server-side objects, the second is about the convergence of XML and Java.
Feb 11-13th, 1998 
Speaker at SIGS OOP Conference in MunichDave spoke on two occasions.  The first is about Java and server-side objects, the second is a practical comparison of component and distributed object technologies, such as CORBA, DCOM, RMI, ActiveX and Beans.
February 3rd, 1998 
Speaker at Internet World, Canada.  Dave spoke about leading edge web development tools
Juanuary 22nd, 1998 
Panelist at COMDEX PacRim.  Dave spoke about uses of Java Beans
March 1998 
Article in Byte Magazine.  Dave wrote an article entitiled "Better Performance with Exceptions in Java".  The topic was how Java's run-time error checking can be used to improve a program's performance.
January 1998 
Article in Object Magazine.  Dave wrote an article on comparing component and distributed object technologies.
November 1997 
Numerous lectures at University of BC continuing studies.
November 1997

Publication of Building Web Components book, by McGraw Hill, Dave authored chapters on Java Beans and ActiveX integration
October 1997

Judge for the ACM/IBM Quest for Java contest
September 9th 1997 
Speaker at SIGS Conference for Java Development in Chicago.  Dave will be speaking on two occasions.  The first is about Java and persistence, the second is a practical comparison of CORBA, DCOM, RMI, ActiveX and Beans.
 
August 26th 1997
Judge in the JavaWorld Editor's Choice awards, presented at Java Internet Business Expo, NY
July 31st, 1997

Presented Java: the Killer-app for components.  This full day seminar explains Java, 2 and 3 tier architectures, COM, DCOM, ActiveX, RMI, Beans, IIOP, JDBC and object persistence at the Software Productivity Centre.
July 26th, 1997

Taught Java and Database Connectivity at the University of British Columbia, Continuing Studies
June 21st, 1997

Taught Microsoft Front Page at the University of British Columbia, Continuing Studies
April 30th, 1997

Presented Building a Java Applet, a full day introduction to Java at the Software Productivity Centre.
April 15th, 1997

Authored article about the Java Beans future for JavaWorld Magazine. 
 
April 12th, 1997
Taught Java and Database Connectivity at the University of British Columbia, Continuing Studies
 
April 7th, 1997
Authored article about the new Java Synthesizer and Sound, entitled The Sound of Java, for JavaWorld Magazine. 
 
March 26th, 1997
Taught Intelligent Agents at the University of British Columbia, Continuing Studies
 
March 24th, 1997
Annual Software Practioners Conference presenter and Panel member.  Dave's involvement is available
Material is available for the half day seminar on Java and Distributed Objects and the 1 hour seminar on Distributed Objects.
 
January 15, 1997
Presented Java: State of the Art, for the Canadian Information Processing Society Education session. 
 
December 14, 1996
Taught Microsoft Front Page at the University of British Columbia, Continuing Studies
 
December 11, 1996
Taught Intelligent Agents at the University of British Columbia, Continuing Studies
 
November 25, 1996
Presented a half day introduction to Java and how IBM/Lotus are using Java for Aardvark Consulting.
 
November 23, 1996
Taught Introduction to ActiveX at the University of British Columbia, Continuing Studies.
 
November 14, 1996
Presented Building a Java Applet, a full day introduction to Java at the Software Productivity Centre.
 
November 1, 1996 etc.
Taught Mastering Cyberspace, a 15 hour intermediate World-Wide Web course at Langara Community College.
 
August 14, 1996
Presented Java and Objects, explaining Java and: COM, RMI, Beans, IIOP etc. at the Software Productivity Centre.
 
August 14, 1996
Presented Distributed Objects, explaining COM and CORBA IIOP at the Software Productivity Centre.
 
May 22, 1996
Presented Building a Java Applet, a full day introduction to Java at the Software Productivity Centre.
 
April, 1996
A keynote presentation on High-tech company success factors and an introduction to Java at the Mid-Island Science, Technology and Innovation Council high-tech forum.
 
February 22, 1996
Presented Java Quick Hits, a half day introduction to Java at the Software Productivity Centre.
 
June, 1995 to present
Online facilitator and author, Mastering CyberSpace, the first interactive, online canadian university continuing studies course through the University of British Columbia, and the current record-holder for an online course
 
February 12, 1995 to May 1995
Taught 2 day course, Mastering CyberSpace, eight times to MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates employees
 
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Dave Orchard