There are more than 50 actively worked JVM languages in existence today. Some have been ported to the JVM, whereas others were written specifically for the JVM. This hands-on session takes an introductory (but non-Hello, World) look at several JVM languages, including Java 8, Scala, Groovy, Kotlin, Ceylon, Xtend, and …
Life’s good. People who never thought they could code are becoming software developers. Outreach programs are getting people in, but we are facing an even bigger problem. Getting them to stay there. 57% of women alone leave the tech industry.
Elegance is an aesthetic experience. It’s about perfectly conforming to a set of imperfect standards, meeting a need with no extraneous lines or rough edges. Elegance in software code is the result of a mysterious process, just as elegance in nature is – in the case of nature, the process …
While micro-services are all the rage, they need to be approached with caution. Using the techniques of evolutionary architecture, coupled with continuous delivery, allows for the micro-services architecture and its companion data architecture to evolve. This talk explores the relationship between these three concepts, focusing on how they all support …
This presentation attempts to “pull out the crazy” from JavaScript. Kyle Simpsons wants to help you produce cleaner, more elegant, more readable code, then inspire people to contribute to the open source community.
Medicine was very different in the early 1900s. It was challenging to find human cadavers, so surgeons had to practice on pigs before they graduated to operating on live humans. This is where we are with software development: we program on pigs and then deploy to humans. This talk shows …
