Rabea's ideas for talks

Rabea Gransberger: The idea to give a talk about code reviews was inspired by my daily work. Sometimes, I also get ideas for topics when I'm attending conferences.

For example, one of my talks was called "Effective IDE Usage." I've seen many people at conferences struggling to get the code to work correctly during their talks because they didn't use any of the content assist in the integrated development environment (IDE), so that is how I got the idea there.

When I did the functional libraries talk for Java 8, I just submitted the idea for the talk because I was interested in the topic myself. I wanted to find out if there were any nice libraries out there that my team could use in our company. When the talk was accepted, I was already doing all the preparational stuff and investigating the libraries.

Geertjan Wielenga: What were the main points in your talk about code reviews?

Rabea Gransberger: I made the point that every company...