Conference: March 5-7, 2018

Workshops: March 8-9, 2018

Speaker:
Trisha Gee
Java Champion, Engineer and Evangelist

Trisha has developed Java applications for a range of industries, including finance, manufacturing, software and non-profit, for companies of all sizes. She has expertise in Java high performance systems, is passionate about enabling developer productivity, and dabbles with Open Source development. Trisha is a leader of the Sevilla Java User Group and a Java Champion, she believes healthy communities and sharing ideas help us to learn from mistakes and build on successes. As a Developer Advocate for JetBrains, she gets to share all the interesting things she’s constantly discovering.

Find Trisha Gee at

https://twitter.com/trisha_gee
https://es.linkedin.com/in/trishagee

Talk : Is Boilerplate Code Really So Bad?

Track : Evolving Java and the JVM: Mobile, Micro and Modular
Location : Mountbatten, 6th flr.
Day of week : Wednesday
Duration : 4:10pm - 5:00pm

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 "so what?". Our IDEs can generate code, and our brains get used to ignoring the stuff that doesn't matter. 

Is the removal of extraneous code from the syntax of a language necessary, or just a gimmick? How does it impact our ability to write and read code? 

In this talk, Trisha will explore common coding scenarios using Java and Kotlin. We'll see what a language designed for developer productivity looks like: what's important for developers to write (and, more importantly, read) and what can be removed. We'll also see how Java has evolved to improve our productivity as producers and consumers of code, and why staying up to date with the features of a language like Java can ultimately make your life easier.

Other talks from track Evolving Java and the JVM: Mobile, Micro and Modular

Serverless and Java in the Real World
Cloud Technology Consultant with an expertise in Serverless Computing
John Chapin
Modular Java Development in Action
Fellow & Software Architect at Luminis Technologies
Sander Mak
Java at Scale
Developer Advocate @IBM
Steve Poole
Neural Networks Across Space and Time
Staff Engineer @VMware
Dave Snowdon

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