Presentations from tonights JUG (JavaBin) meeting!

At tonights javaBin meeting in Kristiansand, Aleksander gave a lightning talk on Google Guava (yeah, that fruit in the picture is called Guava). The main presentation was an introduction to Genetic Algorithms. If you missed out on the talks you can download the slides here: Guava Lightning Talk and here: Introduction to Genetic Algorithms.  We will give you a follow up post on Guava and Google Collections with some cool examples of how you can reduce the amount of boiler plate code in your applications. Stay tuned! What do you think? Share your comments with us!

About Aleksander Stensby

Aleksander is a lead software developer and co-owner of Integrasco A/S where he has been working since 2004. He has broad experience with Java development and technologies such as Lucene Search, Solr, Hibernate, Mysql, Spring and Hibernate Shards, with keen interests in search, machine learning, pattern recognition and scalability. Aleksander have a MSc from the University of Agder in Norway and Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His Master's thesis was awarded University Senate Medal for best Master thesis in 2008. Aleksander enjoy working with challenging tasks and solving AI related problems. In addition to his work at Integrasco, Aleksander also give public talks related to search, scalability and machine learning.