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Big blue turns brown!

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Great news for those of us in constant dire need for caffeine!
IBM has brought their own barrista to the exhibition area – so all our cravings may be met – Long blacks, Flat whites, Espressos, Macchiatos, etc.

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Wuhu!

Sexier software in Australia

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Given the current economic climate, it can be distressing and depressing to think about the future of your job as a software developer. That is why we think you need some encouragement and inspiration.
At JAOO Australia we have invited, among others, James Ward, who will share with us how to develop sexier software with Flex. [...]

And the winner is…

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

JAOO is over and we can crown our supreme winner of the commenting contest. There was several good candidates so we chose the good ones, wrote the commenters name on a piece of paper for each comment, put the notes in a hat and drew the winner from those.
And the winner is… – Linda [...]

The ultimate craftsman at work

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

I admit it. I’m a sucker for Kevlin Henney. I’ll basically attend any talk with him in the speaker’s slot.
No matter what the subject is, his presentation skills, the craftmanship of being on stage, never ceases to amaze me.
This year, it happened so that his “Programmer’s Dozen” has been mentioned to me a few times [...]

A JEE developer’s journey into uncharted land

Monday, September 29th, 2008

I’m still trying to get back to breathing normally after two hours of speed cruising through what Ronnie Saurenmann claimed to be the entire .NET stack. I don’t know – from the buzzing of new impressions in my head it seems that what he presented in his talk A Developer’s Guide to the Microsoft Platform [...]

Ready to Roll

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

We’re ready to roll the new JAOO Community blog. In the next couple of months we will be releasing some video material that we have been working on for a while. Among these are a series of interviews, and a boat load of video footage from sessions in the conferences we’ve been running the last [...]