ETE 2016

Philly ETE 2016 – Martin Snyder – Delivering Agile Methodologies and Emerging Technologies in Hostile Environments

Innovating in such environments can be a challenge, but it is both personally and professionally rewarding to do so. In examining the motivations behind these hostile cultures, we can see patterns and opportunities where individuals or teams of developers can serve two masters and deploy cutting-edge technologies and techniques while still honoring both the spirit and the letter of a myriad of restrictions.

Philly ETE 2016 – Brian Goetz – Move Deliberately and Don’t Break Anything: Lessons from the Evolution of Java

In this talk, Java Language Architect Brian Goetz looks at some of the challenges and lessons of steering Java through major evolutionary changes, and a sneak peek at where the Java platform is headed.

Philly ETE 2016 – Brian Goetz – From Concurrent to Parallel: Understanding Parallel Stream Performance in Java SE 8

This talk will explore the different goals, tools, and techniques involved between these various approaches, and how to analyze a computation for potential parallelism, with specific attention to the parallel stream library in Java 8.

Philly ETE 2016 – Donn Felker – Realm – a New, Easy to Use Mobile Database & Object Framework

In this session learn how you can rid yourself of SQL, SQLite and its binding chains so you can harness the power and speed of working with native objects in Realm.

Philly ETE 2016 – Andrea Falcone – Supercharging Your Mobile App Release with Fastlane

How would you like 2 extra hours of your time back every week? All mobile app developers face similar workflows as they work to upload an app to the App & Play Store. Many of these processes are currently done manually, but why not automate them? Fabric’s set of developer tools, collectively called fastlane, makes building, testing, and releasing your app faster, reproducible and less troublesome, leaving developers more time to focus on feature code and not deployment!

Philly ETE 2016 – Liv Erickson – Virtual Reality Beyond Gaming: Immersive Technologies in the Industry

This session will provide an overview of the current state of VR and AR technologies, and walk through the code behind a WebVR-enabled site for data visualization. We’ll discuss how VR and AR is being used outside of the gaming industry by non-profits and enterprises to help drive their businesses, and showcase examples of how immersive tech is already being used to redefine our relationship with the digital world.

Philly ETE 2016 – Jim Sproch – React.js Reconciliation

In this talk, I’ll describe how reconciliation works within React, and how we use it to enhance both performance and user experience.