Ben Evans
CEO, jClarity

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Ben Evans has lived in “Interesting Times” in technology – he was the lead performance testing engineer for the Google IPO, worked on the initial UK trials of 3G networks with BT, built award-winning websites for some of Hollywood’s biggest hits of the 90s, rearchitected and reimagined technology helping some of the most vulnerable people in the UK and has worked on everything from some of the UKs very first ecommerce sites, through to multi-billion dollar currency trading systems.

He helps to run the London Java Community, and represents the JUG on the Java SE/EE Executive Committee. His first book “The Well-Grounded Java Developer” (with Martijn Verburg) has just been published.

Sessions

9:00am Monday, 07/16/2012
The Well-Grounded Java Developer
Java & JVM
 Location: Portland 256
Tags: java, concurrency, functional, polyglot
Martijn Verburg (jClarity), Ben Evans (jClarity)
Average rating: ***..
(3.18, 17 ratings)
Based off the popular title 'The Well-Grounded Java Developer', this tutorial covers four major themes (Java 7, Functional programming, polyglot programming and modern concurrency) which we believe that all Well-Grounded Java developers should be aware of, and start practising to stay ahead of the game in 2012 and beyond. Read more.
11:30am Wednesday, 07/18/2012
Exploring Java 8 Technology
Java & JVM
 Location: Portland 255
Tags: java, functional_programming
Martijn Verburg (jClarity), Ben Evans (jClarity)
Average rating: ***..
(3.29, 17 ratings)
The speakers recently stumbled across a time machine containing a system built in Java 8 technology which has fallen back in time. This talk will explain some of the advanced features and future code archeology of this amazing find! Read more.
2:30pm Wednesday, 07/18/2012
Modern Software Development Anti-patterns
Programming
 Location: Portland 256
Tags: java, programming, agile, best_practices, software_craftsmanship
Martijn Verburg (jClarity), Ben Evans (jClarity)
Average rating: **...
(2.91, 34 ratings)
Following on from a popular OSCON 2011 Ignite talk, the Diabolical Developer and Ben Evans (the voice of reason) returns with a full length presentation full of controversy and thought provoking material. In short, this session provides a wealth of tips and tricks to free you from the chains of so call 'modern software development best practices'. Read more.
5:00pm Thursday, 07/19/2012
Building a free Java community with deep roots
Community
 Location: D138
Tags: java, community, open_source, oss
Martijn Verburg (jClarity), Ben Evans (jClarity)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 1 rating)
Based on our experiences with the LJC and other OSS projects we cover several tips and tricks used to build a vibrant community of thousands of passionate developers and get those communities working with each other and how to deal with conflicts and other war stories! Read more.

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