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Java One 2009 – Day 0
Posted on 03. Jun, 2009 by todd.
Registration and Visiting the Vendor Pavilion at Java One 2009
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Java One 2009 – What I’m Looking Forward to
Posted on 17. Apr, 2009 by todd.
I’ll be heading to San Francisco in the first week of June for the 2009 edition of Java One. I’ve been fortunate to attend something like eight or nine years and find it interesting to see the trends and how things like the economy affect attendance and the type of folks that come. Java FX [...]
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Groovy/Swing/YQL/Google Maps Lightning Talk
Posted on 15. Mar, 2009 by todd.
I decided to write a little Groovy app that displayed a few participants from the roundup and their origin airports on a Google map. I wanted to illustrate a few common Groovy idioms and illustrate how easy it is to create a pretty functional app in just a few lines of code.
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Java Posse Roundup 2009 Summary
Posted on 10. Mar, 2009 by todd.
I spent the week of March 2 – 6 in Crested Butte CO. at the Java Posse Roundup. I’ve had the great fortune to have been to the previous two Roundups. It’s a very inspiring week. The Roundup is organized as an Open Space style conference. This style of conference is quite different than a typical ‘eyes forward’ conference. It’s self organizing. By that I mean that a general topic is suggested by the organizers and then on day one, participants choose specific topics. Topics are frequently merged, shuffled around and put into time slots. Participants find a topic they are interested in and the conversation begins.