Epiphanies of Patterns!

Here's a workshop that you won't want to miss:

Tuesday, Oct. 28, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
W-3 Epiphanies of Patterns! (Smarter and More Efficient Java Development)
By Joe Toomey and Scott Schneider

Scott Schneider and Joseph Toomey will lead the wandering and weary toward their own epiphany on the value of pattern-enabling technologies in the Java development process. Workshop attendees will learn to become smarter and more efficient Java developers in their daily programming practice, whether they’re solo-coding cowboys or rank-and-file team collaborators. The workshop forms around three basic tenets that establish the theme of the content:

1. Automating the mundane (because programmers are in general lazy beasts)
2. Preserving the goodness (because the goodness is, well... er… good)
3. Engaging your environment (you and your Eclipse as one fine-tuned being)

A short historical and cross-disciplinary treatment on patterns will be covered followed by a constructive hands-on journey in identifying, codifying and subsequently applying Eclipse environmental and Java code-level design and implementation patterns.

This workshop will cover the latest and greatest efficiency-boosting features of the Eclipse environment as well as the important next-generation code-generation technologies such as JET2 and xPand that are becoming the tools of choice in automating the mundane and preserving the goodness. You can participate in the workshop individually or elect to be part of paired-programmer teams that will work together through the hands-on labs.