Tag: JavaOne
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Sucky Way to End a Great Conference
I just got this in the mail this morning “The JavaOne conference team has been notified by the San Francisco Department of Public Health about an identified outbreak of a virus in the San Francisco area. Testing is still underway to identify the specific virus in question, but they believe it to be the Norovirus,…
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Pimping Builds
From the Pimp My Build session by the Atlassian guys. Use Ant imports. The imported stuff can check for preconditions and fail cleanly using the <fail unless=”…”> tag. Use macros. Don’t build stuff you don’t need using the <uptodate> task. Use <outofdate> from ant-contrib, which is even better. You can use audio snippets to tell…
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The Long Tail of Java Tools
I went to an awesome session yesterday evening that did a rapid fire listing of small tools that you should know about if you are working with Java. The breakdown is on the Dublin JUG site.
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Service Integration with SCA and Tuscany
The nice thing about JavaOne is that if you can’t get into the session that you wanted, the fall-back option probably kicks butt anyway 🙂 Having missed out on the Grails/JFX/Android combo, I had the pleasure of getting the low down on Apache Tuscany, an open source Service Component Architecture(SCA) implementation. Tuscany is really about…
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Dynamic Language Smackdown
I just came out of a session comparing scripting (but probably better described as dynamic) languages. Groovy, Ruby, Python and Scala went head to head in three rounds; desktop app, web app and freestyle. Whatever language you follow, the possibilities for use are awesome with excellent features in each language ecosystem. While each compile down…
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Keynote Trends
Keynote was great. These things are really about getting excitement about the technology going, and it certainly succeeded. The big news really is JavaFX at the moment. The runtime will start to be distributed via the Java 6 Update 10 (J6u10 from here) formerly spoken of as the consumer JRE. Having given Flex a good…
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CommunityOne First Impressions
Well. it’s true what they say about Americans. They like to do things big. I hadn’t had my head around exactly what 15000 people at a conference would look like, but I’m slowly beginning to. Moscone is bloody huge! All this space, and I’m having trouble finding a coffee though 🙁 Thankfully can see folks…
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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.…