Today I only attended two presentations and had to leave the conference for some rest. I wonder if I‘m just exhausted about too much JavaOne, or if I‘ve got a virus. This is the email that we received this morning : URGENT PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORY FROM JAVAONE TEAM The JavaOne conference team has been notified by the San Francisco Department of Public Health about an … Continue reading A virus at JavaOne
It is my first JavaOne, so I can‘t really compare. But something tells me that 5 years ago JavaOne was about… Java. Today, it feels different. There are plenty of technical sessions about other languages and on the top selling books at JavaOne, three are about other languages (Groovy and JavaFX). Even James Gosling talked about Scala . And I have to be honest. JavaOne … Continue reading JavaOne : a nostalgic portuguese touch
Today was an interesting day at JavaOne. I first started meeting a giant Duke in the busy corridors of the Moscone Center Then I met Aaron Houston (the Sun guy who helps the JUGs around the world) who gave the Paris JUG a Sun Spot . The idea is to use the spot in a collaborative way so the JUG can develop any kind of … Continue reading JavaOne : Opening up the JCP
Today it was JavaOne‘s kick off. It started with a keynote with Rich Green. It was concentrated in mobile devices (Amazon presented its Kindle eBook) and, of course, JavaFX took a big place. I‘m still a bit sceptical about JavaFX but Rich Green said that really soon it will be running everywhere, in all kind of mobile devices. And then came Neil Young. He talked … Continue reading JavaOne : My Top 3 Issues
Today was the Community One. Not exactly JavaOne yet, free of charge, and mostly based on communities. The idea is to bring different communities on board such as JUGs, GlassFish, Open Solaris, Linux, NetBeans and so on. Community One is also based at the Moscone Center and feels sometimes like a warm up for JavaOne. You see geeks everywhere playing video games lying on the … Continue reading Community One
Yesterday morning I met Alexis Moussine Pouchkine near the Peer 45 in San Francisco. He had organized a bike tour before the GlassFish unconferences. We were a group of 10 people, ready to cycle through the Golden Gate bridge. Met at 9:30am, had a coffee, put the helmet on and off we went. The weather wasn‘t very clear and it got a bit windy. After … Continue reading From the Golden Gate to GlassFish
As a young JUG Leader I’ve been invited by Sun to JavaOne (thanks to Aaron Houston). It‘s my first time at JavaOne so I‘m very excited to attend conferences, BOFs and plenty of organized diners or unconferences. It‘s going to be a busy week, but I‘m ready (I arrived yesterday in San Francisco and already had a good night sleep to recover the 12 hours … Continue reading Speaking at JavaOne
French libraries are full of English books. French blogs are full of comments on English books. Technical French website are full of reviews of English books. But the opposite is not true and doesn‘t happen very often, that‘s why I‘m mentioning it. Few months ago I‘ve been contacted by Meera Subbarao who is the team leader for the JavaLobby/DZone book review team. She wanted to … Continue reading English review of a Java EE 5 French book
Google Gears is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality. For those of you who, like me, haven’t played with the API, there is an easy way to just use it and see it in action : Google Reader. If you use Google Reader to read your feeds and want to read them offline (while you are in the … Continue reading Google Gears in Action
Second conference in London in less that 6 months (Grails Exchange in October). It‘s always good to be back in London (where I lived for 2 years) except for public transport (Circle Line wasn‘t working on Thursday… again). The conference is held at the Queen Elisabeth just facing the Westminster Abbey. Very nice to look at during the breaks. I‘ve been invited to talk at … Continue reading Back from QCon
Thursday the 13th of March I‘ll be talking at the QCon in London. The title of this BoF is Insider’s tips for developing a successful API for Java. I’ll be around the table with Werner Keil (Spec lead of JSR 275 – Units Specification), Rod Johnson (the father of Spring) and Patrick Curran (Chair of the JCP). We all have in common to be part … Continue reading Talking at QCon in London
Everything you want to know about the inauguration of the Paris JUG. Continue reading Paris JUG Inauguration
A few days ago I‘ve blogged about Why are we not using Java EE 5? This post had a few comments. I’ve then been contacted by Matthew Schmidt from DZone asking me if they could reproduce the post and let people add more comments on it. So, to keep on talking about this topic, go to Java DZone. By the way, talking about confusion, I‘ve … Continue reading Why are we not using Java EE 5 (bis repetita) ?
Believe it or not, in a few months the Java EE 5 specification will be two years old (Final Release on the 11 May, 2006). And nobody is using it. We have all read about how easier the development model is in Java EE 5 compared to J2EE 1.4. Complexity reduced, less XML file descriptors, less code, injection and so on. Despite all these good … Continue reading Why are we not using Java EE 5 ?
I‘ve been teaching Java EE at a Parisian university (Cnam) for 6 years now. When I decided to write a book about Java EE 5, I took some inspiration from what I was doing at university. Thanks to these 6 years, I‘ve developed pedagogic skills in the way of teaching Java EE. That‘s also what I‘ve done with my book. Since it‘s publication, I‘ve received … Continue reading Java EE 5 book used in universities
Last week I met James Gosling, today I met the Mayor of Paris‘ 11th district. Everybody has their own political opinions and views on social policy and the workplace. I have mine too. I‘m passionate about Java, I like sharing my knowledge and creating networks, and of course making some money… but in a respectful way. I‘m a self-employed entrepreneur, working co-operatively with an organisation … Continue reading The City of Paris interested in the Paris JUG
During the JUG leaders diner at JavaPolis I made a new friend : James Gosling . No, I’m not trying to explain him any rocket science stuff where he needs to scratch his head. We didn’t talk Java actually. I mentioned that I was creating a Java User Group in France (did you see my t-shirt) and we started to talk about his level of … Continue reading My new best friend from JavaPolis : James Gosling
The first very good news of JavaPolis is that since the 9th of december, the Thalys train (from Paris to Antwerp) stops at the central train station, in the heart of the city. Before, the station was quite far from the city. I arrived with David at 5:30pm, we quickly ran to the hotel to checkin, and then we took a taxi to JavaPolis. There … Continue reading First evening at JavaPolis
JavaPolis will start next week and I have to decide which conference to go to. Tuesday evening 11th I‘ll be arriving in Antwerp on Tuesday afternoon to attend the JUG leader diner that starts at 8pm. I’m quite excited about this event because it‘s a fantastic oportunity to meet other JUG leaders and talk about Java User Groups in general. There will also be some … Continue reading My JavaPolis agenda
In IT, it‘s never the right time to choose a software. Either a technology is too old, or it‘s too new or it‘s still in beta. But I think that November 2007 is a critical time to choose a portal platform. I‘m not an expert on portal (as a former BEA employee I‘ve used Weblogic Portal but that was many years ago and things have … Continue reading Is it the right time to choose a portal ?
I‘ve been thinking about creating a Java User Group in Paris (France) for a long long time. That‘s done now !!! Well, just the first steps : I‘ve created a JUG project at dev.java.net (the project is still pending) Mailing list at users@parisjug.dev.java.net Bought the parisjug.org domain name Looking for a meeting room (either at the Cnam university or with a partnership that I have … Continue reading Paris JUG
Well, this morning I managed to arrive on time and have my first breakfast at the conference. Thanks to the train driver, thanks to the London tube, thanks to the people on the platform who let me in the train, thanks to God when it comes to arriving on time with London public transports. So, today is the last day of what has been a … Continue reading 3rd and last day at Grails Exchange
The other day I was presenting Java EE 5 to a customer‘s team. There was a guy who had read my book and at the end of the presentation asked me : “You are involved with open source, how come in your book you use Intellij Idea and not Eclipse or Netbeans ? Is it because JetBrains gave you a license ?”. Indeed. When I … Continue reading I just blog to say I love Idea
Looking for a contract in Java EE ? You will not find any. What about J2EE ? Yes but, be careful, only with Java 5, not Java 1.4. What ? You are only using Java EE 5, we already use the 6 version… For techies, things are getting clearer. We know that there is a EE, SE and even ME edition of Java. We also … Continue reading J2EE, Java EE, Java SE… the marketing is not ready
In his blog Firefox memory usage and memory leak news Jesse Ruderman talks about memory usage and fix memory leak bugs in Firefox 3. For people who know Marmite I’ve been feeling the same with Firefox for the last years (I even used Opera for a long time). I love it for its plugins and extensibility, I hate it for memory and CPU usage (I … Continue reading Waiting for Firefox 3
