JessicaKerr, Author at JAXenter

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JessicaKerr

Jessica Kerr is a Java-turned-Scala developer in St. Louis, MO. Her passion for learning is countered only by her taste for whisky. She participates in the JetBrains Academy, helps organize the local Java User Group, entertains her two daughters, and tweets as @jessitron.

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This ain't your grandma's Java

Everything I know about Java collections I learned from Scala

#bytecode #collecitons #creature #enterprise java #google guava #immutable #iterable #java #java 7 #java 8 #lambda #mega blocks to lego #quilted #quilting pattern #scala

From December’s JAX Magazine, Jessica Kerr explains how using Scala concepts can help us when using plain old Java.

Critical thinking

Op-ed: Have you seen my monkey?

#abstraction #chunking #code monkey #java #jax magazine #jessica kerr #scala #uml

Originally appearing in October’s JAX Magazine, Jessica Kerr thinks you’re smarter than a regular code monkey