The long-awaited second edition of Effective Java is here. It covers the latest in best practices for the Java platform. This presentation will concentrate on three areas where new material has been added to the book: enum types, generics, and concurrency.
Do you want to know how to combine the safety and richness of collections with the performance of bit fields? Have you ever been confused by wildcard types? Do you want to know when and how to use lazy initialization? Then come to this talk. The patterns and idioms you learn will be directly applicable to your programs and designs.
Joshua J. Bloch is a software engineer, currently a Principal Engineer at Google, and a technology author. He led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including the Java Collections Framework, the java.math package, and the assert mechanism. He is the author of the programming guide Effective Java as well as the co-author of two other Java books. Joshua Bloch holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Comparing Dependency Injection Frameworks— Stop writing new - A brief comparison of several main stream Dependency Injection (IoC) Frameworks recorded at JFokus 2008, another JUG enabled conference.
Taming Code Dependencies— During this session we'll talk about code dependencies between classes and packages in large scale software projects: what they are, and why they're important,
The Java Puzzlers— Josh Bloch and Neal Gafter present yet another installment in the continuing saga of Java Puzzlers, consisting of eight more programming puzzles for your entertainment and enlightenment.
Java - A tour of the landscape— During this JavaPolis '07 keynote, James Gosling (father of Java) presents The State of the Java Universe. Java SE and JavaFX receive special attention during this keynote, where the first ideas towards a possible FX Designer tool gets presented.
Java SE Update— During this JavaPolis presentation, Danny Coward (platform lead for Java SE) gives a broad (not necessarily deep) picture of the work Sun Microsystems is doing in and around the Java SE platform and on JavaFX.
