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Devoxx 2009 Digital Media Report

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\nAbove all, I strongly recommend the Devoxx conference to any Java
\nbeginner in Europe who wants to expand their mind, to get ahead and to stay ahead of the pack.<\/span><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\nDear Reader<\/p>\n

Well Hello Devoxx 2009<\/a> conference and it is Wednesday<\/p>\n

First, a few words, on the conference itself. I think Devoxx is the
\nbest conference this side of the Atlantic Ocean for Java news and
\nspeakers. The technical quality of the speakers is excellent. Sun
\nMicrosystems also feels this is a great community so they will sent
\ntheir top representatives like Brian Goetz<\/b>, Mark Reinhold, Alex Buckley<\/b>, Joe Darcy<\/b>, Richard Bair<\/b>, Bruno Souza<\/b> and Aaron Houston<\/b>.
\nSo okay even if this conference was 500 participants down from last
\nyear and the economic markets is suffering severe dislocation in many
\ncountries of the world, this Devoxx conference is undoubtedly the
\nEuropean standard, against which conferences have to be compare with. <\/p>\n

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\n[European JUG Leaders BOF 2009 with James Gosling Meeting Vimeo Player *Coming Soon*]<\/span>
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This year yours truly has decided not write any more daily blog
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\nDevoxx 2009 Interview with the Adaptavist guys<\/a><\/p>\n


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\nDevoxx 2009 Interview with Stephen Colebourne Opinions on JDK 7 Closures etc<\/a> <\/p>\n

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\nDevoxx 2009 My Interview for Aaron Houston, Program Director, Outreach, Sun Microsystems <\/a><\/p>\n

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\nDevoxx 2009 Interview with Antonia Gonclaves, Paris JUG Leader, Java EE 6 Advocate<\/a> <\/p>\n

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\nDevoxx 2009 Interview with Oliver Gierke, Easing JPA with Hades<\/a>
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\nDevoxx 2009 Interview with Frederick Simon, JFrog, Talking About Artifactory<\/a>
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UStream TV Devoxx JAVAWUG Link-Up Show<\/h3>\n

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In other words, I think a daily blog is a complete waste of (my) time. Why? Because, people can get the best of external news from Twitter and professional journal blogs. However, I do think that the new digital media taking advantage of these technologies is the correct way to go. I attempted to do this on Tuesday night with a live link up with the JAVAWUG<\/b> in London. Richard Gomes<\/b> was hosting our very first Professional Jam #1. Antwerp’s timezone is one hour ahead of time of London, and still I found out later in the day that the Internet link at Skills Matter<\/b> was unavailable. It was sod’s law, but I continue with my Ustream TV feed<\/a> and recorded it. You can judge the results yourself of whether this helps user group members who unluckily unable to visit a conference such as Devoxx. \n<\/p>\n

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It was rough and ready and the quality of the video low, but I believe this is valuable in the next decade when we will be economically and airplane challenged. In English, travel may become more restrictive and socially frown upon unless it is necessary. I can certain JUG Leaders, like Marcelo Magno <\/b>from the Milan JUG<\/b>, using Ustream TV<\/a> to broadcast live or recorded to native speakers of his user group who do not speak English very well. Tech has it’s uses and I am digressing here …<\/p>\n

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\"Devoxx<\/a>
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Incredible Announcements and The Vector of Progress Continues Unabated
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The top items of interest were JavaFX <\/b>(of course), Java EE 6<\/b>, Scala <\/b>and JDK 7<\/b> Changes. Additionally, I was most impressed with the high standard of operation and integration of the Adobe Flex <\/b>tools. In particular, the Adobe Catalyst <\/b>demonstration was outstanding.
\nAs a developer you can easily take the composition layers of a designer’s Photoshop, Illustrator or Flash file, and simply select a region, and automatically convert that graphic into an ActionScript button.This was for me watching it live physically unheard of usability and productivity between developers and designers. <\/p>\n

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Tor Norbye and Stephen Chin<\/font><\/p>\n

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JavaFX started with Stephen Chin<\/b>‘s University talk, which I thought was a light gentre introduction into JavaFX areas and capabilities. However, in the middle of this talk was a real clincher, Tor Norbye<\/b>, the technical leader of authorisation tool, who demonstrated the Netbean JavaFX Rapid Application Development<\/b> tool. <\/p>\n

The NetBeans 6.8 team have been very busy. The Matisse <\/b>qualities of the forthcoming RAD tools for JavaFX look very impressive indeed. The ability to drag components from the palette into a design canvas, the ability edit properties of those component is simply paramount programmability. The next trick that Tor showed off was the binding, timeline and animation capabilites. Yes that is quite right, the design canvas was not a static breadboard, it actually came to life with transformation, effects and opacities changes. Best of all this produce readable JavaFX code I think. I forgot to ask Tor whether this was reversible. Can you tweak the RAD tools JavaFX code and would it still work? Hmmm…. Anyway nice, I cannot wait for NetBeans 6.8<\/b> to be released.<\/p>\n

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Juggy, the Brazilian Java User Group mascot and myself at Access, Bar Salsa.<\/font><\/p>\n

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There was a demonstration of the PRISM <\/b>runtime exclusively in the last JavaFX session on Friday with Richard Bair<\/b> and Jasper Potts<\/b>. It was fast, fantastically fast. JavaFX 1.3 will be out on January\/February 2010, I think they [Sun] are targetting the Mobile World Congress<\/b> in Barcelona <\/b>for this. Good luck boys, I hope you make it. PRISM is slated for next years JavaOne 2010 (or whatever they are going to call it). <\/p>\n

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Howard Lewis-Ship presenting Clojure the JVM language<\/font><\/p>\n

I was most impressed with ScalaTest <\/b>and the ability to remove boilerplate code from EasyMock and the behaviour driven tests. Bill Venners<\/b> was excellent and I want to take up the suggestion that a good way way to get involved in Scala is to start writing ScalaTest. He suggested that we use our own existing Java libraries and codebase to do this. Great idea.<\/p>\n

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Java EE 6 specification and the reference implementation looks good. We are finally getting an EJB container API that we can test outside the application server. Antonio Gonclaves<\/b> and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine<\/a><\/b> had a great talk. The Servlet 3 API, however, from Kevin Nielson<\/b>‘s eyes, at least when he discussed this topic with myself, looked weakened from what was originally expected, althought it is still a step forward in progress. Java EE 6 and the JDK 7, I believe, will make an awesome combination. No longer do we need monolithic application server that were truly heavy. Instead we might looking at web server monitors based on EJB Lite containers. The EJB might be facade on a data persistence that do need no damn SQL database server.<\/p>\n

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Of course there is now new direction, not quite a change of heart, in Closures for Java. Go to Stephen Colebourne<\/b>‘s blog for more information on the JDK 7 Closures<\/a> as they now stand up.\n<\/p>\n

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The best keynote of the entire conference was by Robert C. Martin<\/b>. And so it was software professionalism that won the fight, hands-down. Martin was definitely the greatest show on earth. He was animated, he was enthused and he inspired all of us to do better in our testing. Why do not we as developer, designers and architect treat ourselves like blue-collar workers, clocking in by the hour. We are just as professionalism as accounts, bankers , lawyers and other executvies. Great stuff!\n<\/p>\n

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Sven (centre) of the NetBeans Dream Team and also Java Duke Award winner 2009 talking to Aaron Houston (out of the picture).<\/font><\/p>\n

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I bought only one book at the conference, a little something on Grails<\/b> and a companion tome to Scott Davis’<\/b>s Groovy Recipes<\/b>. By the way, whatever  happened to Vaclav Pech’s GParalleliser quickie talk. Did I missed it? \n<\/p>\n

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What a ride?! Devoxx 2009 was just great. Obviously, I finished this article on the last day of the conference on Friday, 20th<\/sup> November 2009. <\/p>\n

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There many items, which I noticed, from previous years, which were
\nmissing. The conference ended a couple of hours earlier this year, at
\nlunch time. There was no Friday lunch voucher. There was no daily
\nnewspaper and the number of exhibitions were clearly down. Sun
\nMicrosystems Belgium were not there this year, for example, which I
\npersonally do not care about. However, the let us consider the
\npositives here for a minute. The Java Champions and most of the
\nEuropean JUG leaders \/ co-JUG leaders were in attendance. You got
\nentrepreneur and really good technical\/business people like David Booth
\ncoming here, then most of the people in your niché of technology
\nwhether it be Groovy, Scala, Fan(tom), SOA, FX or just plain Java
\naround. For me even members of the JAVAWUG<\/b> , Markus K<\/b> and Phil Haigh<\/b>, made it over at the last
\nminute, the conference was not sold out a week before. I think it says
\nsomething about developers, designers and architects and that they are
\nstill hungry of innovation, inspiration and good old community
\nsocialisation. Above all, I strongly recommend the Devoxx conference to any Java
\nbeginner in Europe who wants to expand their mind, to get ahead and to stay ahead of the pack. Just like “Public Enemy Number One! One, one, one. One, two, three, huue haarggh”\n<\/p>\n

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Finally, Parleys.com <\/b>are offering, now, a subscription to Devoxx Online<\/a><\/b>. For pnly 49.00EU for six months, you can get streamed videos of the conference show as they are transcoded, uploaded and produced on demand. This is great for those of you who could not attend Devoxx and also feel that you need some further education. \n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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This is Peter Pilgrim at Devoxx 2009. Out!<\/p>\n

The Shout Outs!<\/b><\/h2>\n

\nIn no special order:<\/p>\n

Dave Booth<\/b>, CEO of Zero Turnaround,
\nStephen Janssen<\/b>, “Mr. Devoxx”, himself
\nJo Voreendecker<\/b>, JavaFX and Flex, Devoxx Committee member
\nDan Hardiker<\/b>, Adaptavist, Devoxx Committee member
\nStephen Colebourne<\/b>, Fan(tom) Language Adovocate, Author of First Class Methods Closure Proposal 2008
\nAaron Houston<\/b>, Program Manager, Outreach, Sun Microsystems,
\nMike Van Riper<\/b>, Silicon Valley Web User Group, JUG Leader
\nKevin Nilson<\/b>,  Silicon Valley Web User Group, JUG Leader
\nValerié Hillaweare<\/b>, Devoxx Committee member and Congratulations. ( All the best for February 2010 \ud83d\ude09
\nStephen Chin<\/b>, JFXtras Project
\nMarkus Kobler<\/b>, JAVAWUG Member, London
\nOliver Gierke<\/b>, JPR09 Housemate
\nAlex Buckley<\/b>, JDK 7 Jigsaw, Sun
\nBrian Goetz<\/b>, Universal VM and JavaFX Compiler and Runtime
\nRichard Bair<\/b>, JavaFX Team, Sun
\nJasper Potts<\/b>, JavaFX Team, Sun
\nHolly Cummins<\/b>, IBM Performance (Come on down and present to the LondonJAVAWUG anytime)
\nKirk Pepperdine<\/b>, Kodework (You too),t
\nAlain Moran<\/b>, Adaptavist
\nKeith Brophy<\/b>, Adaptavist
\nFrederick Simon<\/b>, JFrog
\nShlomi Ben Haim<\/b>, Co Founder CEO JFrog
\nDaniel Wroblewski<\/b>, Flygpoolen
\nMarcelo<\/b> Milano<\/b>, JUG Milano,
\nJoe Darcy<\/b>, Project Jigsaw, Sun Microsystems,
\nReggie Hutcherson<\/b>, Program Director, Outreach, Sun Microsystems
\nFrenk Greco<\/b>, New York Java Users Group, KaaZing,
\nRomain Guy<\/b>, Curious Creature, Android SDK Google
\nDick Wall<\/b>, Java Posse,
\nJoe Nuxoll<\/b>, Java Posse,
\nTor Norbye<\/b>, Java Posse,
\nKarl Quinn<\/b>, Java Posse
\nAntonio Gonclaves<\/b>, Java EE 6 Export Group member, Paris JUG Leader
\nPeter Lubbers<\/b>, CEO, KaaZing
\nJevgeni Kabanov<\/b>, Founder, Chief Technical Officer, ZeroTurnaround
\nBill Venners<\/b>, Scala Test presenter at Devoxx, Artima
\nJason van Zyl<\/b>, Maven 3, Sonatype<\/p>\n

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