Matt Prokes

I didn’t get time to mentioned I visited sumpernet last week as well, it was great! I will be putting notes out soon on the discussions. I had also discovered google draw last week which is just plain cool.

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At the nofluffjuststuff conference this weekend, and I loved it. Some particular highlights that I enjoyed were guava, a discussion on apprenticeship in the 21st century, gradle,  and man oh man I loved sonar.

The food was good; people from the last 3 companies that I had worked with were at the conference, so it was a bit of a blast from the past. Infact I am blogging to you direct from the conference now!

Some of the talks were so exciting, that I went home last night and fired up a instance of sonar right off the bat and took a spin on guava. It was everything that I expected, so I would recommend checking out some of the tech listed here.

If you want to know how good your code is, and want all of the statistics assembled in a nice consumable interface sonar is great for stuff like that.

If you want a nice util library, that simplifies many of the functions that you would be doing in java. Guava is perfect for things like that, and there is a good chance you can reduce your code size by 25%.

If you are looking for a complete end-to-end package for managing software, dependencies, etc. Gradle is starting to appear like a interesting alternative for such a thing.

Long story short nofluff was a blast, I would recommend checking it out if you ever get a opportunity. I had learned a ton about new tools moving into the nebulous void of software development which can make our lives a little less chaotic. In the same sense though I am happy that the conference is coming to a end.. Have work on monday :-S… … .

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