Peter Pilgrim :: Java Champion :: Enterprise Blog

A week ago, the JavaOne 2012 call-for-papers came to a conclusion. Notifications were sent out to the content authors. I submitted three papers and got two accepted.

CON4643    Contemporary User Interface Design Patterns in JavaFX 2.2

CON4648    Scala, JavaFX, Java EE 7 and Enterprise Integration

Just before the confirmations were out, Stephen Chin, got in contact with me. He invited me to work with himself on a  JavaOne Lab.  Of course, I said yes. I would love to do a repeat of our 2011 Devoxx University JavaFX session.

TUT5466     JavaFX 2: A Java Developer’s Guide

We will be working on an update of our three hour  session. I am excited to work on this tutorial as I know Steve is. We look to include more advanced topic relevant to JavaFX 2.2 and the future releases.

If you are able to travel to San Francisco, I look forward to meeting you at JavaOne 2012 in the autumn.

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Over seven weeks ago, I gave a presentation called Progressive JavaFX 2.0 Custom Components at JavaOne 2011 in California. It is now publicly available as audio only. The demos were all captured. Thanks to the Parleys.com and Oracle for processing this session.

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PS: Thanks to Sharat Chander for pointing out my session had been processed a week ago!

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Today, I feel humbled to experience another QCon London conference. It is the fourth time I have been involved, and I consider it the biggest event in my home town.

What were my favourite events and happenings at QCon?

• Meeting with the people and having inspired conservations about technology
• Meeting Wendy Devolder of SkillsMatter and discussing the Functional Exchange
• The Java Community Panel on Thursday afternoon with Stephen Colebourne, Ben Alex, Mark Little, Jerome Dochez and Patrick Curran.
• Twitter conversation with Alex Blewitt about the JCP, the future of Java
• Mark Powell’s evening key note on the Jet Propulsion Lab, which contains many Star Trek references
• Speaker’s dinner where I tabled with Mark Powell, Glenn Vanderburg and Kevin Henney and had a fantastic conversation about The Mote in God’s Eye and science fiction writers, TV, movies and books
• The speaker dinner’s at the restaurant Inn The Park
• Meeting individuals like Christian Kellner and Daniel Temme of TimoCom, Duesseldorf, Germany; Juan Germano of Core Security from Argentina; Gary Harvey of Trifork;
• Winning an Amazon Kindle 3 Wi-Fi bundle in a FuseSource prize drive!!! (Thanks to Matt Thayer) 
• Being asked questions about JCP, Future of Java
• Paul Albettele asked me about the future of Java / Scala. Should I learn Scala? Should I learn functional programming? Michael Klove also inquired about Scala’s future too
• Chatting with Googler Ade Oshineye and eavesdropping on his photograph tips to a fellow conference goer
• Meeting Simon Ritter on the Oracle booth and discussing the JavaFX 2.0 early access release and experiments there of
• Meeting Artifactory / JFrog folk again Yoav Landman, Shlomi Ben-haim and Talin,  et al

Listen to AudioBoo: Thank You QCon London 2011: It’s Been Emotional

What were my favourite sessions?

• Glen Vanderberg’s Clojure on the Web on Friday
• The second half of Rod Johnson’s Friday morning keynote: Things I Wish I’d Known
• The NoSQL at NetFlix on Friday morning by Siddarth Anand
• Musical singing and playing of a certain Roy Osherove: Team Leadership in the Age Agile (Thursday)
• Kevlin Henney’s talk Putting “Re” into Architecture (Wednesday)
• Gil Tene of Azul interesting talk about Java without GC Pauses (Wednesday)

What were the things I did not like this year?

• No being there for the whole thing, missing out Wednesday and Thursday mornings
• Dealing with Another Other Business during the conference
• Being so emotional after the event (always sad to have an ending)
• Domain Specific Language technical session should have been much better than it was
• Smaller scale conference party on Wednesday evening

See next year and best endeavours for the rest of 2011

Meanwhile here are some photos:-

Collecting the Amazon Kindle from FuseSource’s Matt Thayer

Standing with Ade Oschineye near the Google and Wolfram booths

Wendy Devolder of SkillsMatter (left) and Ben Shlomi-Haim

Geeta Schmidt of Trifork (left) and Floyd Marinescu of QCon (right)

The indefatigable Rod Johnson during his Friday morning keynote

London Agile User Group night at QCon London

I suppose nobody can tell any more lies now.

Photos from Creative Commons (cc) Peter Pilgrim’s Photostream on Flickr.com

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After a very busy QConLondon 2011 this week, I almost forgot to mention that the lightning talks from JavaPosse Roundup were announced.

I did to two lightning talks of five minutes long on Tuesday and Wednesday nights over in Crested Butte, Colorado. Gosh! It seems like a decade ago or a distance life already. I suppose that is what fun memories of a great gathering do after all.

Scala Adoption for Business

Developing Your Personal Self-Awareness (Peter Pilgrim)

Enjoy! Thanks for the memories

(Feedback, suggestions and good uplifting greetings always appreciated)

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