As Java programmers you are used to dealing with edge cases. But what about edge cases in the language? As a certification book author, Jeanne Boyarsky encounters lots of interesting and/or surprising behavior. This presentation will increase your awareness in these Java gotchas. This is not a Java puzzlers talk. …
Functional programmers have been saying for decades that they know the way to the future. Clearly they have been wrong, since imperative languages like Java are still far more popular. Clearly they have also been right, as the advantages of functional programming have become increasingly obvious.
Java 10 has local variable type inference, but type inference is not really new in Java. Is type inference good or bad? Are there challenges and limitations to using it? When is a good time to use type inference?
This live hacking session will refactor a small Java Sudoku Brute-Force Solver. The code is anything but bad, but its age shows. In short sessions we want to give the legacy Java code a rejuvenating treatment. You will discover a personal approach on how to perform refactoring on untested Java …
Learn about the surprises that an experienced JVM engineer gets when doing Java development in the wild. The presenter has worked for 10 years with the Java platform specializing in garbage collection implementations inside the JVM. He worked with both the JRockit and HotSpot Java virtual machines and has built …
Functional programming is a programming style that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids changing-state and mutable data. It is a declarative programming paradigm in that programming is done with expressions or declarations instead of statements. For years, the conventional wisdom around attempting pure functional programming in …
