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Josh Bloch

Josh Bloch
Software Architect, Open Source Program Office, Google

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Joshua Bloch is a software architect in the Open Source Program Office at Google, author of the bestselling, Jolt Award-winning “Effective Java” (Addison-Wesley, 2001; Second Edition, 2008), and coauthor of “Java Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases” (Addison-Wesley, 2005) and “Java Conurrency in Practice” (Addison-Wesley, 2006). He was previously a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features including the Java Collections Framework and JDK 5.0 language enhancements. He holds a Ph.D. from CMU and a B.S. from Columbia.

Sessions

1:30pm Monday, 07/25/2011
Java Puzzlers—Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel
Java: Trends
 Location: B110-111
Tags: lifestyle
Josh Bloch (Google), Bob Lee (Square Inc. )
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 2 ratings)
How can they do it? How can Josh Bloch and Bob keep coming up with such great programming puzzlers year after year? They can't! In this, the eighth installment of the perennial crowd pleaser, Click and Hack the Type-It brothers are truly scraping the bottom of the barrel. But some of the dregs they come up with may still astonish, delight, and educate. Read more.
9:30am Tuesday, 07/26/2011
Java: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts
Keynote
 Location: Oregon Ballroom 201/202
Tags: android, android_for_java, programming, opensource
Josh Bloch (Google)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 10 ratings)
In my technical presentation, I'll be discussing all of the changes to the Java programming language since its inception. In this this keynote, I'll focus my attention on the starting point: I'll present my candidates for the best and worst features in the platform as it was originally released (JDK 1.0), and explain the reasoning behind my choices. Read more.
2:20pm Tuesday, 07/26/2011
The Evolution of Java: Past, Present, and Future
Java: Trends
 Location: A105
Tags: android, java, programming, coin
Josh Bloch (Google)
Average rating: ****.
(4.85, 13 ratings)
The Java programming language has evolved significantly since its introduction in 1995. In this talk, I'll discuss language changes from the addition of assertions in JDK 1.4 through Project Coin in Java 8, discussing what worked, what didn't, and why. Finally, I'll discuss ongoing efforts (Project Lambda for Java 8) and future plans, in light of the lessons learned from previous changes. Read more.