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Just a quickie whilst I am still in California for a while. Tori Wieldt from Java.Net, Java Developer Community Lead at Oracle interviewed Stephen Chin and I on the Sunday 2nd October.  Here is the interview and we are in the 1:54 to 4:10 approximately.  

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Wow! What a week it has been in California at JavaOne. [FULL VERSION – After the crash of flaming Microsoft Live Writer, I recovered and improved this blog entry.]   View from Hotel Nikko upper level looking down on the Mason Street Buzz Cafe, Chill Out Area The biggest news of the event were the […]

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    One of the greatest technology leaders that ever lived and probably ever walk this earth. RIP Steve Jobs, Apple Chairman and former CEO https://www.apple.com/stevejobs/ ( Applause ;-D *) Hewlett Packard –> Atari –> Apple –> Next –> Pixar –> Next –> Apple   Quotes From Commencement Speech at Reed College   “Sorry to […]

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At the JavaOne 2011 conference, the biggest news of the Tuesday came during the Java Strategy keynote, at the Hilton hotel San Francisco. Nandani Ramani had another of those JavaFX demos, which demonstrated JavaFX 2.0 running on a Apple iPad 2.0, a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 running Android 3.1 and, get this, a Acer Windows […]

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JavaOne 2011 Impressions The first news is that JavaFX 2.0 has been released as general availability [Alternative download here]. Oracle have delivered on their promised, or may be it was Sun Microsystems vision, to reinvigorate the user interface on the desktop. I think this is a fantastic result, and the entire Oracle JavaFX SDK team […]

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Good Morning from California I am presenting at JavaOne 2011 this year. The first of three talks on my trip to California this year. Today, I will give a talk today on Progressive JavaFX 2.0 in , which is expected to be released very soon.   "Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn" – Say it loud! Say […]

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We were five students of Kirk Pepperdine’s Java Performance Tuning Course, which took place in September 2011 near Chania, Crete. We were amazed to find out that we were actually three guitarist, one harmonica player and a supporter. We had spontaneous fun on the area of the living room reserved for musical instruments. I was […]

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I have been fortunate to attend Kirk Pepperdine’s Java Performance Tuning course on the beautiful Mediterranean island Crete. My journey started on 11 September 2011 at London Gatwick. With a flight delayed for 90 minutes I arrived late on Sunday evening. I met up with Kirk Pepperdine in the lobby of the Perle Spa Hotel, […]

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Android is two things as far as I am concerned: It is a software development kit for developing mobile and embedded applications Android applications run on the Android platform I helped to develop an Android application called Presentation Skills Pronto with Terry Neason at TLC Powertalk. The app consists of media players that allows users […]

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This is the final part in a series of article about porting an existing Java application to Scala. The application calls the Yahoo! Financial web service and retrieve stock quotes for the user, storing them in a local repository. The original Java project was described in the part one. In the part two of this […]

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  In the first three weeks of July, I was super-busy, so The Collective Summer Camp UK had to take a backseat while I sorted out stuff. I am still pushing on with this event. I believe definitely that we should have this style of event happening in the UK. We have create the flaming […]

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  About three weeks ago, I was watching a Film 4 late night with my partner. We stumbled upon on a martial-arts movie, called Ip Man. We thought it was one of the best Kung Fu movies of recent times, up there with Kung Fu Hustle. Donnie Yen who played Ip Man, a semi-biographically account […]