15 April 2011 Comments off
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My week of Scala continues at the ACCU 2011 in Oxford. I will be here, incidentally, until Saturday lunchtime. At least that is the plan. The Stream First let me add some record of tweet to my presentation yesterday. You can also download my ACCU 2011 Introduction to Scala presentation direct from XeNoNiQUe. Otherwise […]
25 March 2011 Comments off
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Wow! I was really amazed by today’s Coke-Up conference at Skills Matter. It was a worthwhile experience and it was great to meet some of the members. First, let me say it was a complete different crowd of Londoners and software developers than I was used to. Most of the folk in my network are […]
12 March 2011 Comments off
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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 […]
08 March 2011 Comments off
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I have been slack in my technical leadership [blogging, audioboo recording, community output]. I know. I feel bad about it. I wonder what the future holds. It has been a frustrating time. I think many organisations lie about their needs and /or some really do not know exactly what it is they truly want […]
01 February 2011 Comments off
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boundaries exists Some boundaries are meant to be overcome. For example in the domain of software development and construction we look to bridging the interface between components, especially in architecture. The culture bounds of the software created lie in the boundaries of those who create it. Artificial boundaries enforced by organisations The first type […]
21 December 2010 Comments off
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Recently, I have been thinking about Java and Moving Beyond Java. I ruminated aloud in a couple of Audioboos and so here are a summarised listable version of these thoughts and ideas. Listen to AudioBoo: Moving Beyond Java on the JVM: To Be Or Not To Be Listen to AudioBoo: Investment Banks Moving Beyond Java? […]
15 December 2010 Comments off
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Listen as an AudioBoo I, hereby, declare that these statements below are, now, my own personal “corporate” values: In any new organisation that I work with or be involved with, I will work inside a team of people that heavily influence the engineering, the broad scope and design quality of the products. Any new organisation,which […]
23 November 2010 1 comment
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Friday 19 November 2010 Future of Java Discussion Panel Original this last day at Deovxx was going to be a keynote by James Gosling. He had pull the gig a month before, because of surgery. So we had instead a future of Java discussion panel moderated by Java Posse members: Dick Wall and […]
19 November 2010 Comments off
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Akka: Simpler Scalability, Fault Tolerance, Concurrency & Remoting Through Actors by Viktor Klang You know that I came across the name always, Viktor Klang, but I think always the Java Posse mailing list / Google forum along with Casper Bang. So here was the man in person and I had no idea before this […]
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Keynotes To Wednesday 17th November 2010 and the proper conference began in earnest with a keynote by Mark Reinhold, which was about Java SE 7 and then followed by Dion Almer and Ben Galbraith, who had a breathe taking reprise of State of the Web. Java SE 7 and 8 Mark Reinhold talk […]
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Dive into Android with Chet Haze and Romain Guy https://devoxx.com/display/Devoxx2K10/Dive+into+Android For yours truly, this was useful interesting introduction in Android, another mobile computing platform. Romain Guy and Chet Haase talk about Android in higher level at the beginning, then they descending to into the key aspect of the platform: the Activities, the Intents and […]
10 October 2010 Comments off
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The line “You have failed me for the last time” comes from Star Wars Episode V, Empire Strikes Back. Why I left JRoller for the my own professional branding
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