Jeanne Boyarsky
Biography
Jeanne Boyarsky is a Java Champion and published author. She wrote wrote Sybex’s hugely popular Java 8 and Java 11 certification books. She is a Java developer with 17 years experience and volunteers with a FIRST robotics team. In 2018, she spoke at DevNexus, Oracle Code One and QCon. Jeanne is a Distinguished Toastmaster which involves giving over 50 public speeches. For more on Jeanne’s professional experience:, see http:/jeanne.boyarsky.com
Java Idioms for becoming a more powerful developer
Knowing programming idioms makes us more powerful and faster developers. This session will cover common (and not so common) idioms with regular expressions, file I/O and streams/lambdas. After attending this session, you’ll be able to impress your co-workers with your increased speed in solving programming tasks. You’ll also have the tools to spend less time on the “easy tasks” and more time solving business problems.
You will need a laptop with the following software:
Java 11 JDK
Your favorite IDE
Java: Did you Know That?
As programmers we are used to dealing with edge cases. But what about edge cases in the language? As a certification book author, I encounter lots of interesting and/or surprising behavior. Come to this session and walk away with an increased awareness in these Java gotchas. This is not a Java puzzlers talk. These are surprises you might actually come across.
