Conferences I have visited in May'17

Riga DevDays

Riga DevDays - a perfect conference of an Estonian to visit: not too far away (45 minutes flight), nice city, very good event!

There, I have presented a talk about Java class reloading, which covers the different options for reloading Java classes and explains the fundamental differences of those.

Riga DevDays 2017 - The hitchhiker’s guide to Java class reloading from Anton Arhipov

GeeCON, Krakow

I have presented at GeeCON before. The vibe of the event is quite energising! :) I have presented a talk about TestContainers which seemed to spark a lot of the interest from the attendees. Almost a full room and a lot of questions after the talk. Looks like integration testing is in demand these days!

GeeCON 2017 - TestContainers. Integration testing without the hassle from Anton Arhipov

JUG.ua & JEEConf, Kiev

The visit to Kiev (Kyiv) was super-productive. I've visited EMAP offices of the on-site presentation as well as a local JUG meetup just before the conference. Very good attendance: 100+ people came to the meetup. Interestingly enough, in Ukraine (as well as in Russia) people ask questions in an interesting way: they usually start the question with "What if ...". They are always curious to find the limitations of the technology, the approach, the method, etc - almost like trying to break things. I think this critical mindset is very helpful when you have to develop software these days.

JUG.ua 20170225 - Java bytecode instrumentation from Anton Arhipov

At the JEEConf I have presented 3 talks: 2 on my own, and 1 with Anton Keks, helping to deliver the Kotlin Puzzlers talk. This was a very well organized conference: super-nice view in the center of Kiev, well crafted schedule with the interesting and useful talks, good athmosphere... I recommend :)

I had a pleasure to deliver a live coding session about Javassist, though I still have the slides just as a reference for those who attended the session. I don't find this talk to be very useful for the developers, however, attendees still find it interesting, so I'm puzzled with this a bit :) Here are the slides:

JEEConf 2017 - Having fun with Javassist from Anton Arhipov

As for the Java class reloading talk, I had some time to update the content since Riga DevDays -- removed boring parts and added a few other things. Lots of "What if.." questions after the talk -- I love this crowd! :)

JEEConf 2017 - The hitchhiker’s guide to Java class reloading from Anton Arhipov

GeekOut 2015 Registration is Open!

As of today, the registration to GeekOut Java conference in Tallinn is open!

The focus of the conference is on all-Java but not only. For instance, this year we have talks on Dart and Go programming languages. Other talks cover developer tooling, solution architecture, programming methodologies. There will be a few talks on Java concurrency that you shouldn't miss in case you're into writing multithreaded applications in Java.

And here's what the conference is in numbers:

• 2 days
• 400 attendees
• 18 excellent talks
• and 1 kick-ass party!

We're also expecting Stephen Chin to visit us with his awesome Nighthacking sessions, so one should expect a lot of fun from the event!

BTW, If you haven't been to Tallinn yet, this is a great reason to consider visiting and June is just perfect month for this travel!

GeekOUT Conference Early Bird Registration is Live!

Registration to GeekOUT conference in Tallinn is now open! Geekout in numbers:

• 15 amazing invited talks
• 14 great speakers
• Hand-picked vendors @ Demogrounds
• Kickass party

And a special extra: Reactive Programming workshop with Erik Meijer!

Speaking at Jkofus 2014: Apples and Oranges

I will be speaking at Jfokus in Stockholm, on February the 5th. This is a fun talk again, about the IDEs. I'll be presenting the IntelliJ IDEA part along with Geertjan Wielenga (NetBeans) and Ken Walder (Eclipse).

Speaking at DevNation in San Francisco, April 13-16

I will be speaking at DevNation conference in San Francisco.

The conference is co-located with Red Hat Summit so it's going to be a big one!