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Continuous Profiling in Production: What, Why and How

Featuring Sadiq Jaffer and Richard Warburton

Everyone wants to understand what their application is really doing in production, but this information is normally invisible to developers. Profilers tell you what code your application is running but few developers profile and mostly on their development environments. Thankfully production...

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Java Collections: The Force Awakens

Featuring Raoul-Gabriel Urma and Richard Warburton

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

Java open source developers managed to the see the previously secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the JAVA COLLECTIONS FRAMEWORK.

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Generics: Past, Present and Future

Featuring Raoul-Gabriel Urma and Richard Warburton

Generics are one of the most complex features of Java. They are often poorly understood and lead to confusing errors. Unfortunately, it won’t get easier. Java 10, release planned for 2018, extends Generics. It’s now time to understand generics or risk being left behind. We start by stepping back...

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Java Generics: Past, Present and Future

Featuring Richard Warburton

Generics are one of the most complex features of Java. They are often poorly understood and lead to confusing errors. Unfortunately, it won’t get easier. Java 10, release planned for 2018, extends Generics. It’s now time to understand generics or risk being left behind.

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Pragmatic Functional Refactoring with Java 8

Featuring Richard Warburton and Raoul-Gabriel Urma

You may be hearing a lot of buzz around functional programming. For example, Java 8 recently introduced new features (lambda expressions and method references) and APIs (Streams, Optional and CompletableFutures) inspired from functional ideas such as first-class functions, composition and...

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Lambda Behave: A modern testing and behavioural specification framework for Java 8

Featuring Richard Warburton

Are you a Java developer and you've seen the fluent and modern specification frameworks available in other programming languages such as Spock or jasmine and wondering why we can't have the same thing?

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Speaking Out: A workshop for public speaking in tech

Featuring Richard Warburton and Martijn Verburg

Public speaking is a great opportunity for people to raise their professional profile and employment opportunities. Unfortunately its also regularly identified as the activity which people fear the most. Its ok - we're here to help!

Lambda Behave: A modern testing and behavioural specification framework for Java 8

Featuring Richard Warburton

Are you a Java developer and you've seen the fluent and modern specification frameworks available in other programming languages such as spock or jasmine and wondering why we can't have the same thing? Then Lambda Behave is made for you! It uses numerous Java 8 features in order to enable...

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Performance and Predictability

Featuring Richard Warburton

Would you like to discover why access patterns are important? Or what kind of speed you can gain with them? Join LJC for an evening with Richard Warburton discussing how you can write simple high level code which works well with these kind of patterns.

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Twins: FP and OOP

Featuring Richard Warburton

Would you like to learn how functional programming helps you implement the SOLID principle? Watch this SkillsCast by Richard Warburton, who talks about how functional programming helps you implement the SOLID principles, and how a functional mindset can actually help you achieve the holy grail of...

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Twins: FP and OOP

Featuring Richard Warburton

Object-Oriented Programming has well established design principles, such as SOLID. For many developers architecture and functional programming are at odds with each other: they don’t know how their existing tricks of the trade convert into functional design. This problem becomes worse as hybrid...

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The Bleeding Edge

Featuring Richard Warburton and Martijn Verburg

Enterprise Java developers value reliability and stability, but what happens to your technology stack if you’re willing to take a risk? Come along and find out what we’d recommend and what we’d avoid with hindsight.

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Lambdas: Myths and Mistakes - Presented by Richard Warburton

Featuring Richard Warburton

tl;dr - How will the everyday developer cope with Java 8’s Language changes?

Java 8 will ship with a powerful new abstraction - Lambda Expressions (aka Closures) and a completely retooled set of Collections libraries. In addition interfaces have changed through the addition of default and static...

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Are you better than a Coin Toss? Presented by Richard Warburton and John Oliver

Featuring Richard Warburton

So you’re a big data and distributed systems “expert”, you’ve collected 500 billion data points, thrown it into sci-lib-of-the-week, you’re using Hadoop, backing onto those cool AWS GPU instances, let it grind away for days and its spit out the answer to life the universe and everything. But is...

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