Speaker: Cameron Purdy
Cameron Purdy is Vice President of Development at Oracle. Prior to joining Oracle, he was the CEO of Tangosol, whose revolutionary Coherence Data Grid product provides reliable and scalable data management across the enterprise. As a software visionary and industry leader, he has received a number of awards in recognition of his contribution to the Java community, including twice being named as a JavaOne RockStar and being recognized in TheServerSide’s “Who’s Who in Enterprise Java”.
Cameron Purdy - Effective Developer
thursday 11:20 - 12:10
Cameron Purdy, Oracle, is interviewed by Nitin Bharti, DZone, on the topic Effective Developer
Traditional Programming Models: Stone Knives and Bearskins in the Google Age
thursday 10:15 - 11:05
Programming has been taught using roughly the same approach for decades, but today's systems use radically different architectures, consider the explosion in the count of processors and cores, distributed environments running parallel computations, and fully virtualized operating environments. Learn how many of yesterday's programming principles have become today's worst practices, and how these anti-patterns continue to form the basis of languages, frameworks and infrastructure software.
C++, Java and .NET: Lessons Learned from the Internet Age
wednesday 17:45 - 18:40
Java’s appearance at the dawn of the Internet Age helped to propel it to near-instant prominence, and lodged cross-platform virtual machines and garbage-collection firmly into our mainstream consciousness. In Java’s wake, .NET introduced the concept of the “cross-language” virtual machine, and helped to foster a new discussion on the benefits of functional programming. Did Java and C# have an evolutionary advantage over C++, or were they simply “Cool” (the original code name for C# / .NET)?
