Today is my first day back after attending the Business of Software Conference in London. It was my first time attending the conference and here are my (honest) thoughts and feelings. The Experience Overall, attending BoS was an amazing experience and I can see why so many of the attendees return year after year. It…
Each year Mark Littlewood and his team put together two Business of Software conferences. One which is hosted in Boston, and one which is hosted in Europe. This year the European Business of Software (BoS) conference was based in central London (Shoreditch). The conference usually lasts 2 to 3 days and it’s packed full of…
Each year we ask ourselves this question. Conferences are expensive to attend, consume a great deal of time, energy and money and represent a substantial opportunity cost to a small organisation like IDRsolutions. And with the internet becoming increasingly prevalent as the place to do business, can we just stay at home and open up…
It might seem a bit early to start speculating about Java10 before Java9 has even launched. In fact, with Project Valhalla, some ideas have already been explored for some time and there is already a Java10 page on the OpenJDK website. One of Java’s strengths is that the designers have been very cautious on adding…
Here at IDRsolutions we are very excited about Java 9 and have written a series of articles explaining some of the main features. In our previous Java 9 series article we looked at Javadocs in Java 9. This time we will be looking at some of the hidden features you might have missed. As you know…
