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Ian Dees

Ian Dees
Software Engineer, Tektronix

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Ian Dees saw his first Timex Sinclair 1000 over 20 years ago, and was instantly hooked. Since then, he’s debugged embedded assembly code using an oscilloscope, written desktop apps in C++, and joyfully employed scripting languages to make testing less painful. Ian currently writes GUI code for field instruments as a Software Engineer at Tektronix.

Ian is author of the Pragmatic titles Scripted GUI Testing With Ruby and Using JRuby.

Sessions

2:20pm Monday, 07/25/2011
Implement Your Own JVM Compiler
Location: A106
Ian Dees (Tektronix)
Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 1 rating)
Writing a compiler used to be a big deal. Nowadays, we have an abundance of good tools to help us: parsing frameworks, bytecode generators, and rich runtimes. In this introductory talk, we'll see how to design and implement a rudimentary compiler in about half an hour for a simple programming language on the JVM. Read more.