Venkat S.: "Design Patterns Revisited in Modern Java" & "Know your Java?"

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agenda
18:00 doors open
18:25 welcome
18:30 Design Patterns Revisited in Modern Java - Venkat Subramaniam
20:00 Pizza break
20:25 raffle
20:30 Know your Java? - Venkat Subramaniam
22:10 networking

| Design Patterns Revisited in Modern Java |
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| Design Patterns are common ways to solve problems that developers have discovered over time. They often fill the gaps between the language capabilities and the design goals. When languages mature, sometimes patterns become natural features of languages and blend in to the natural way of writing code instead of a special effort. Java has evolved significantly over the years. In this session we will revisit some common design problems and see how patterns are realized to solve those problems with the modern capabilities in Java. |

| Know Your Java? |
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| Many of us have significant experience in Java. Yet, from time to time, we get tripped up by some code that we quite did not expect to behave the way it does. In this presentation we will take a look at some of those and get a deeper understanding of the language we use everyday. |

| About the speaker |
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| Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.

He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.

Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.

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