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Hey All I will giving a presentation at ACCU 2011 Conference in Oxford on 13th April: Introduction to Scala. The conference takes place in Oxford at the Barceló Hotel on the outskirts of the town. Registration is still open last time I check, so if you want to go then do it now. I examined […]

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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 […]

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You have probably guessed correctly. That’s right! I will be making a personal appearance at Skills Matter tomorrow for Cuke-Up, which is the one day conference about Cucumber BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) tool. Why am I investing time learning about Ruby testing tool? Well the answer is that many of Ruby’s goodness including RSpec have […]

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After the my usual downbeats posts on Beyond Java on the JVM, I stumbled across Charles Nutter’s blog article [The Future Part One] again and reread it. The date on this article states April 2009 predates my own thinking on the Java platform, at that time, I was more interested in JavaFX Script version 1.1. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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The things I enjoyed about this year’s open space conference. Just the enthusiasm and the luck of the draw about being there again. It was heart warming and uplifting to be part of the action Meeting this year’s new people Getting reacquainted with the previous JPR11 attendees Diane Marsh’s Scala Koans Sitting on Bruce Eckel’s […]

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Dear All As promised, a few weeks ago, at Devoxx 2010 the Java User Group Leaders Meeting (annual birds-of-a-feather) video is now uploaded to Vimeo. I have created a byte-size edition of the meeting, first, because this version is shorter and has the Oracle talk at the beginning. The byte-size edition also has Antonio Goncalves, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]