Tag: conference
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Conference organizing no more
After taking a step back to have a think about my situation, I have regretfully pulled out of organizing the IJTC conference in Dublin this year. Putting together a conference is a hugely involved activity and I just do not have the time to spare on it this year. I wish the remaining organizers the…
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Irish Java Technologies Conference 2008
It’s that time of the year again. We are just starting to ramp up getting this year’s conference in Dublin together for November. A good few months this time, as opposed to our insane 3 month schedule last year. There are a bunch of themes that we are looking to cover in this year’s line-up,…
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Twittering JavaOne
If anyone’s interested, you can follow my exploits on via Twitter on jakekorab.
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Heard on United 955 to SFO
Pilot: “Passengers on the left hand side of the plane, if you take a look out the window you will see a great view of the Golden Gate bridge and the Bay Area. Passengers on the right hand side of the plane, thank you for flying with United Airlines.”
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JavaOne Flights Booked
Everything is finally booked and I am looking forward to hitting the shores of San Francisco next weekend. The lineup looks really good and I’m still having difficulty choosing between the sessions. I will also be at CommunityOne, which looks outstanding for a free event. 14 tracks!? Amazing! Hats must go off to the organizers.…
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JavaOne Pre-booking
I finally got around to booking in onto some of the tech sessions for JavaOne in San Francisco next month. Gasp! The amount of stuff going on is incredible. From new languages on the JVM (Fortress, Scala, JRuby) to SOA, mobility and techniques in app development it’s pretty easy to book up 12 hours a…
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Desktop Apps made easier, JavaFX and that ESB thing…
Isn’t it always the way, when you want to blog other stuff comes up? I had intended to write up a final post about the last day of Tech Days, but the weather has been great to get the kite out and the holiday is winding down so… Day 3 was pretty cool, as I…
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My Java ME versus Android Question
Beautiful day in Sydney. I came out of this morning’s Tech Days session on Java ME applications with a whole bunch of questions – they’re much more fun than answers. The latest version of JME now contains heaps of APIs for everything from geolocation to bluetooth and is supported by millions of mobiles, and will…
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Sun Tech Days Melbourne
After half an hour of walking around trying to determine where exactly the convention centre IS in the Olympic complex (signage would be really nice), I finally managed to make it to the Melbourne satellite event of the Australian leg of Sun Tech Days. I love events like this; the interchange of ideas and pointers…