LJC @ Devoxx UK

LJC members are invited to join Devoxx UK on the evening of Wednesday 17th June.

IMPORTANT - To gain access to the event you MUST leave your full name when you RSVP - Thank!

Guided lab: Learn about usage, performance, and availability with Microsoft Application Insights

18:45 – 21:30

How much do you know about the performance and availability of your Java app? How do you detect issues and diagnose crashes? What does your actual user behavior look like? Application Insights (http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/application-insights/) is a new service from Microsoft that provides end-to-end insights into availability, performance, and usage of your Java application, no matter where it’s running (on-premises, AWS, Azure, etc.). After a brief overview of Azure and Application Insights, we’ll spend the evening working hands-on to implement Applications Insights on your own app or sample code. Come for the pizza and beer, stay for the deep insight into application performance.

BOF sessions:

18:45 – 19:45

Java Beans v2.0 ? with Stephen Colebourne

The JavaBeans specification is truly from another era with many arcane rules, yet the intentions behind the spec still power most Java applications. Since we aren't getting a properties language feature in Java any time soon, could something be done in the libraries to make the pain of beans slightly less? What might a Beans v2.0 spec look like? Come along to find out what has been done so far and to see if it works for you!

Stephen Colebourne is a Java Champion and JavaOne Rock Star speaker. He has been working with Java since version 1.0 and contributing to open source software since 2000. He has made major contributions to Apache Commons and created the Joda open source projects including Joda-Time. He blogs on Java topics and was co-spec lead on JSR-310 which added java.time to Java SE 8.

The art of clean commits with Git & other useful practices with John Stevenson

If you have taken the time to learn something as powerful as Git, then you owe it to yourself to learn how to use it to greater effect. Ask yourself these questions:

Can you read your Git history easily and quickly make sense of it all? Are you happy to show your history off on your wallboard? Can you bug fix regressions missed by your compiler & tests by quickly scanning the history & quickly creating a patch? Can you merge your commits with joy, cherry picking with ease where needed? Are your commit messages like poetry, or at least something meaningful and just flow from your fingertips? Do you understand where rebasing can be useful, even though it can be incredibly evil too

If you fill with dread at these questions, then come and discuss some approaches that should help. If you have all this well under control, come along and share how you do it.

Covering a range of practices, tools, techniques, we will discuss how to make better use of tools like Git and avoid wasting time on bug hunting, merging and deploying.

John Stevenson is a developer for Heroku/Salesforce, loves Clojure, cats, community and agile development

Java EE with David Delabassee

Calling all the Java enthusiasts (and non enthusiasts too) to gather and discuss the upcoming release of Java EE, Java EE 8.

David Delabassee is a Software Evangelist working in the GlassFish and Java EE Team at Oracle. Prior to that, he spent more than 10 years at Sun Microsystems focusing on Java end-to-end (from the smart card to the high end server) and the developer tools. He has been involved in Java projects since the early days of this technology. In his spare time, he enjoy tinkering and playing with technologies such as Java, Arduino, Home Automation, Linux, Pinball, etc.

Who should attend?

All LJC members should be able to benefit from attending. Those with live Java app projects looking for some great free insights should find the lab of particular interest. BOFs (Birds of a Feather sessions) are informal evening sessions lasting 1 hour and designed for audience participation. It’s up to you how involved you get.

Agenda:

18:00 : Doors open & drinks

18:45 : Sessions start

Where?

Business Design Centre

52 Upper Street

Islington

London N1 0QH

Nearest tube: Angel

IMPORTANT - To gain access to the event you MUST leave your full name when you RSVP - Thank!