{"id":1231,"date":"2020-02-26T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T15:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.djug.org\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2020-02-26T11:28:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T17:28:58","slug":"venkat-subramaniam-kotlin-for-java-programmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"Venkat Subramaniam: Kotlin for Java Programmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, August 14, 2019<\/p>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>5:30-6:00: Food, Soda, Beer and Networking<\/p>\n<p>6:00-6:15: Announcements<\/p>\n<p>6:15-7:45: Kotlin for Java Programmers<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s so much you know as a Java programmer and yet there is so much more that Kotlin offers. It&#8217;s a language that is built on strong foundations and, at the same time, brings along phenomenal concepts to favor low ceremony, fluency, sensible warnings, safe types, pragmatic mixture of object-oriented and functional programming, and so much more.<\/p>\n<p>In this presentation, you&#8217;ll start with what you already are familiar with, and dive into Kotlin, to learn about its strengths and capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>About Dr. Venkat Subramaniam<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.<\/p>\n<p>He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com.<\/p>\n<p>You can find Venkat on Twitter @venkat_s (<a title=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/venkat_s\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/venkat_s\" target=\"__blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/venkat_s<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>7:45: Door prizes<\/p>\n<p>* IntelliJ IDE License (<a title=\"https:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/idea\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/idea\/\" target=\"__blank\">https:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/idea\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>* Pluralsight Subscription provided by DevelopIntelligence (<a title=\"http:\/\/www.developintelligence.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.developintelligence.com\/\" target=\"__blank\">http:\/\/www.developintelligence.com\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>8:15: After Meeting Networking<\/p>\n<p>After meeting networking sponsored by Okta (<a title=\"https:\/\/developer.okta.com\/\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.okta.com\/\" target=\"__blank\">https:\/\/developer.okta.com\/<\/a>). We meet at Ale House at Amato\u2019s (2501 16th St, Denver, CO 80211).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, August 14, 2019 5:30-6:00: Food, Soda, Beer and Networking 6:00-6:15: Announcements 6:15-7:45: Kotlin for Java Programmers There&#8217;s so much you know as a Java programmer and yet there is so much more that Kotlin offers. It&#8217;s a language that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/?p=1231\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djug.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}