Have you ever wondered where the perception that technology and software development are a masculine pursuit comes from? Or why we have to explain that, “no really, women are interested in computers too”? At the beginning of the modern technological era, to be a computer was to be an actual …
Basic functional concepts like immutable data, second-order functions, lambdas and function composition can already be found in the modern programmer’s toolkit. During this talk you will learn about more advanced functional concepts and how they can solve real problems.
When was the last time you took a day off as a software developer? Are you going to the office every weekday? How often do you work with people? All these questions usually show one thing – we all have stress that comes from our software development job. Famous Work-Life …
Turns out Domain-Driven Design (DDD) works not only for cargo shipping. Domain-driven design consists of a set of patterns for building enterprise applications from the domain model out. In your software career you may well have encountered many of these ideas already, especially if you are a seasoned developer in …
This presentation explores the strengths and weaknesses of different programming styles, patterns and paradigms in Java and other JVM languages. It is very easy to get stuck in one way of doing things. This is as true of programming as it is of life. Although a programming paradigm represents a …
Many JVM languages promote “less boilerplate code” as one of their selling points. Even updates to Java in recent years have removed unnecessary syntax. While this is clearly meant to be a Good Thing, many of us – particularly if we’ve been writing Java for a long time – think …
