Android Studio makes it crazy easy to locate deadlocks! I'll explain how in this video.
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A Tech Talk I gave for Johns Hopkins University June 28, 2017.

What is a Domain-Specific Language? How can we use one for code-generation?

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Talks on Gang-of-Four Design Patterns: Mediator, Observer, Javabeans, Model-View-Controller, Command, Template Method, Strategy and Null Object, Composite and Visitor, Factory Method, Abstract Factory and Builder
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A tech talk I gave for Johns Hopkins University on Oct 6, 2014 on Android Intents and Fragments.
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A Java Users Group talk from September 2014 I presented on new features in Java 8: Lambdas and Streams.
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A Java Users Group talk from July 2013 I presented on new features in JCode Generation with xText and xTend.

We'll use xText to create a custom language by specifying a grammar, read the content into a model, and generate code using xTend!

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A Java Users Group talk I presented on enumerations in Java.

I cover:

• The old "type-safe enumeration pattern"
• Using enums for values
• Adding data and methods to enums
• Using enums for the Gang-of-Four State Pattern
• Using enums to emulate function pointers in Java
• EnumSet and EnumMap

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I presented a talk on the Template Method and Strategy Patterns to the Columbia, Maryland Java Users Group on 10/13/2011.
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I presented a talk on Dynamic Proxies to the Columbia, Maryland Java Users Group on 12/02/2010.
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A Java Users Group talk from May 2010 I presented on Eclipse tips and tricks.
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I presented a talk on Java Annotations to the Columbia, Maryland Java Users Group on 1/19/2010.

This is a very deep dive into

• Annotation Concepts
• Creating annotation processors
• Using annotations at compile time and runtime
• Generating code from annotations

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A video tutorial on ANTLR 3.x
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