Daniel Hinojosa
ÜberConf
Denver · June 24 - 27, 2014
Independent Consultant
Daniel is a programmer, consultant, instructor, speaker, and recent author. With over 20 years of experience, he does work for private, educational, and government institutions. He is also currently a speaker for No Fluff Just Stuff tour. Daniel loves JVM languages like Java, Groovy, and Scala; but also dabbles with non JVM languages like Haskell, Ruby, Python, LISP, C, C++. He is an avid Pomodoro Technique Practitioner and makes every attempt to learn a new programming language every year. For downtime, he enjoys reading, swimming, Legos, football, and barbecuing.
Presentations
Personal Agility with the Pomodoro Technique
Time is very precious and is often threatened by phone calls, emails, co-workers, bosses, and most of all, yourself. The Pomodoro Technique reigns in unfocused time and gives your work the urgency and the attention it needs, and it's done with a kitchen timer.
Scala for Java Developers All Day Workshop (Laptops Required)
A full day, Scala hands-on workshop, that takes your typical Java code that you use day after day, and transforms into idiomatic functional Scala code. The result? Cleaner and more concise code.
Set your clocks, the Java 8 Date/Time API is here.
Finally, the Java 8 Date Time API will be in our grasps and now we will celebrate gleefully in the streets! ISO8601 and UTC standards! Immutability! Time to set attention to stun as this presentation will cover all the goods about the new Date/Time API that makes Java programming safe.
I have seen the top Akka mountain, and it is good.
Presentation on Akka. A set various tools to write concurrent, fault-tolerant applications using immutable data, asyncronous message passing using local and remote actors, software transactional memory, and supervised systems.
Scala: Demystifying The Funky Stuff
Scala is known for both its clarity in some cases, and its obscurity in others. Well, this presentation sticks with the obscurity. We will cover abstract types, the Predef, implicit conversions, creating infix types, singleton types, type variance, type bounds, type variance, partially applied functions vs. partial functions, type projections, and overcoming type erasure using Manifests.
Testing In Scala
Most introductory programming books include a chapter on testing, seemingly as an afterthought. For the test-driven developer, that's a little too late. Some programmers approach a new programming language with a few test-cases to understand a concept. Others thrive under fire and want to hit the ground running in a new programming language by creating an application.
Playing with the Play Framework
The presentation will cover an introduction on the framework by creating a basic web application in both Java and Scala to get you started.
Making Java Bearable with Guava (2014 Edition)
This presentation covers the Guava library developed by Google (http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/). Guava provides collection extensions to the Java Collection API and, along with this, a cornucopia of time-saving utilities that bring Java as close as possible to some of the more functional and dynamic language competitors like Scala, Ruby, and Clojure.