A JEE developer’s journey into uncharted land
Monday, September 29th, 2008I’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 [...]
Gregor Hohpe on the Cloud computing track
Monday, September 29th, 2008Cloud computing is one of the latest buzzwords in the industry. As with most buzzwords, it can be difficult to separate fact from fiction. So rather than handing you some pretty marketing slides, we’ll put some seasoned industry on the spot to tell us what’s really new and important about the [...]
Anders Hejlsberg: Multiparadigm languages is the way to go
Monday, September 29th, 2008If you are at JAOO right now the subject of this blogpost will not be a surprise for you because you were just at the same talk that I was. Anders Hejlsberg tried to gaze into the future and take a look at programming languages of tomorrow.
The trends are: declarative, dynamic and concurrent.
Multiparadigm languages is [...]
Must See
Sunday, September 28th, 2008Not quite sure what you should attend? Maybe these three talks will be something for you.
Monday, 11:30 – 12:20: Groovin’ builds Gant get any easier by Andy Glower (of the Disco Blog fame)
Ant is still the standard build mechanism for Java, and we’ve probably had the thought at some point that it might not be [...]
A Scala tutorial with Bill Venners
Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Today I wrote my first Scala program ever. And then the second and the third and so on. I went to the tutorial named “The Scala Experience – Programming with Functional Objects” with Bill Venners who is co-author of the book “Programming in Scala”.
The tutorial consisted of 4 short talks with exercises after each [...]