LJC Live at LMAX

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About the event
Join us for another LJC Live event to hear from Java Champion Marit van Dijk from JetBrains, and Senior Software Developer Ryan Healy from our hosts, LMAX.

Agenda
6pm Arrivals and drinks
6.20pm Welcome from the LJC
6.25pm Welcome from LMAX
6.30pm Ryan Healy: ‘Stop Testing! (my patience)’
7.15pm Break for refreshments, kindly provided by LMAX
7.45pm Marit van Dijk: ‘Reading Code’
8.45pm Q&A and networking
9pm Departures

Speaker: Ryan Healey, Senior Software Developer, LMAX Group
Title: Stop Testing! (my patience)
Synopsis: As developers, we should have two attributes: impatience and laziness. Why? Because overall it will (eventually) make us more productive. In a world where hundreds of streams of information are all fighting for our time and attention, this makes it a precious resource; your impatience can help you save mountains of this sought-after capacity. In this talk, I will show you why you should strive to be impatient and lazy and how you can put that to work.

Speaker: Marit van Dijk, Java Champion and Developer Advocate at JetBrains
Title: Reading Code
Synopsis: As developers, we spend a lot of time learning to write code, while spending little to no time learning to read code. Meanwhile, we often spend more time reading code than actually writing it. Shouldn’t we be spending at least the same amount of time and effort improving this skill? Deliberate practice can help us get better at reading code. Learning how to better read and understand code, can in turn teach us what makes code readable. This might even help us to write code that is easier to read.

In this talk we will discuss the benefits of deliberately practicing reading code in a code reading club or session without an IDE, as well as common strategies to navigate a new codebase and familiarise ourselves with the code using the IDE.

Speaker bios:
Ryan Healey is a Senior Software Developer at LMAX:
Proudly impatient and lazy (in a good way, I promise).
Developer with over 10 years of programming experience, although he has only been paid for half of that. I am passionate about fast feedback, testing, and generally making my own and the developers around me's lives a little bit easier.

Marit van Dijk is a software developer with over 20 years of diverse experience across various roles and companies. As a Java Champion and Developer Advocate at JetBrains, she is passionate about building awesome software in collaboration with amazing people, and making developers’ lives better.

Marit is committed to continuous learning and actively shares her expertise in programming, software development, testing, and test automation.

Marit regularly presents at international conferences, participates in webinars, and appears on podcasts. Additionally, she writes blog posts and tutorials, creates videos, and is a contributor to the book “97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know” (O’Reilly Media).
This event is organised by RecWorks on behalf of the London Java Community.

The London Java Community is sponsored by Hazelcast, Vonage, Neo4j and Discover

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