Ted Neward
Twin Cities Software Symposium
Minneapolis · March 14 - 16, 2008
Presentations
The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Concurrency (Part 1: Threads)
Java's threading capabilities took a serious turn for the better with the release of Java5, thanks to the incorporation of the java.util.concurrent packages, a set of pre-built components for thread pooling and execution, synchronization, and more.
The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Concurrency (Part 2: Concurrency)
Java's threading capabilities have been a part of the Java platform since its inception, yet for many Java developers, using Threads still remain a dark and mysterious art, and synchronization beyond the use of the “synchronized” keyword is almost unknown.
The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Debugging
Bugs? We all know your code has no bugs, but someday, you're going to find yourself tracking down a bug in somebody else's code, and that's when it's going to be helpful to have some basic ideas about bug-tracking in your toolbox. Learn to make use of the wealth of tools that the Java Standard Platform makes available to you–tools that your IDE may not know exist, tools that you can make use of even within a production environment.
The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Monitoring
Crashes? Outages? Slow response? We all know that it's never your code that causes these things, but for some reason those pesky system administrators still insist on paging you at 4AM to come in and fix those problems, anyway. For some reason, they just keep expecting you to support this thing, even after QA said it was OK!
The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Native Code
As much as the Java Virtual Machine and libraries provide a comfortable womb in which to write code, moments appear in every Java developer's life when they just have to call down to code that exists at the native, C-executable, level. Java provides a standard API for doing this–Java Native Interface–but its use is at once both darkly mysterious and… well… painful.