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Presenting

Twelve Ways to Make Code Suck Less

and

Designing Functional Programs

by

Venkat Subramaniam

Doors Open 14:00 (afternoon session) / 18:15 (evening session)

This month, for the first time in our ten year history, we are hosting our meetup on a Sunday. We are incredibly privileged to welcome Dr Venkat Subramaniam.

Venkat is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.

He has trained and mentored 'thousands' of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia (and soon to b Ireland!), and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.

Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award-winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com

You can follow him on twitter at @venkat_s. .

Twelve Ways to Make Code Suck Less

We all have seen our share of bad code and some really good code as well. What are some of the common anti patterns that seem to be recurring over and over in code that sucks? By learning about these code smells and avoiding them, we can greatly help make our code better. Come to this talk to learn about some common code smell and how to improve the quality of code. .

Designing Functional Programs

Functional Programming promotes immutability and the use of higher order functions. For those of us who have designed and architected applications using an imperative style of programming and the object-oriented paradigm, this largely appears like a strange idea. We often ask, how is it practical to apply these ideas, realistically to build practical applications. It turns out it's highly practical but we have to change how we design and how we model our systems. Come to this presentation to think about functional style and how to start viewing design to make better use of this way of programming. .

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The Dublin Java User Group meetups are designed to enhance the technical knowledge of attendees, and due to the overwhelming demand to attend our events they are always full.

The organizers and the speaker are giving their time for this event to share knowledge with you at the Dublin Java User Group community, freely. The booking fee you pay today will be refunded, in whole, providing you attend the event at the allocated time. If you do not attend the event for whatever reason, the fee you have paid will instead be allocated to the running of Dublin Java User Group events. The Dublin Java User Group events are for developers only. Tickets are non-transferable."

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MORE JAVA EVENTS

Java developers who are interested in this meetup are also attending Dublin Java User Group's October meetup with Red Hat's Java Champion Edson Yanaga - DETAILS HERE