It doesn’t seem that long ago since I was last at EclipseCon Europe, but time has flown by – and my hair has gone even more grey 👴🏻 – someone complained that my headshot was out of date!

In any case, as with last time, I’ve managed to negotiate a discount on my newest Eclipse book – Eclipse Plug-in Development for Beginners, 2nd ed – which came out earlier this year. You can get 30% off the eBook until the end of October with CONECD30, or you can reach out to me via @alblue on Twitter if you’re interested

I’ve also got a pair of my Eclipse Plug-in books (Eclipse Plug-in Development, second edition, and Mastering Eclipse Plug-in Development) that I’m going to give away to someone randomly chosen from those who retweet this link 🐦, and will hand it out after my session on Thursday before lunchtime. I’ll tweet out the winner of the books before my session starts, and you can meet me at the Bürgersaal 2 room at 11:35 or shortly thereafter.

My session is on optimising Eclipse plug-ins; a generally useful overview for how to optimise Java programs generally, but also tailored to some of the specifics that affect Eclipse and OSGi applications. I’ll talk about how to measure Eclipse’s use with Java Flight Recorder and Memory Analyzer Toolkit, as well as touching on YourKit and Censum as well. Slides will be available on my speakerdeck profile afterwards. I’m also happy to have a discussion over lunch in more detail if anyone is interested.