May 1, 2008
Last year at JavaOne, the highlight for me was the Redmonk Unconference. It was a great venue to network, learn and discuss issues relevant to the open source community. The guys at Redmonk do a great job of bringing together the technologist and the business/marketing types into one place.
I would recommend to anyone going to JavaOne to try to make it to this year’s edition. My goal this year is to get a better appreciation of how people are using twitter for their community. Mik Kersten is also planning to talk about task focus programming. See you there.
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April 30, 2008
SpringSource has just launched a new application server, called SpringSource Application Platform, that is based on Equinox, Tomcat and Spring. The key thing is that it is not a Java EE application server but one that has been designed for modular development and deployment.
InfoQ has a good write-up about the announcement and Dana Blankenhorn has provided some coverage. It will be interesting to see how this announcement is received in the Java community. The Spring guys have a great reputation and community, so it will definitely get attention.
Of course this is great news for Equinox and OSGi; lots of innovation coming for this platform.
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Posted by Ian Skerrett
April 24, 2008
JavaOne is in two weeks. Once again, the Eclipse Foundation will have a booth, be giving away Eclipse t-shirts and having our party at the Thirsty Bear. Besides free Eclipse SWAG and beer, there are also some interesting Eclipse related sessions at JavaOne:
- The Many Moons of Eclipse, Tuesday, May 6 12:10pm – 1:10pm (TS-5040)
- Introducing eBay’s Scalable Innovation Platform, Tuesday, May 6 3:20pm – 4:20pm (TS-7550)
- Developing JavaTM Persistence API Applications with the NetBeansTM IDE and EclipseLink Tuesday, May 6 4:40pm – 5:40pm (TS-5400)
- Developing and Supporting a Plug-in for Eclipse, the NetBeansTM IDE, and IDEA
Tuesday, May 6 8:30pm – 9:20pm (BOF-5193)
- The NetBeansTM Platform Compared to the Eclipse Rich Client Platform
Thursday, May 8 9:30am – 10:30am (TS-4895)
- Using a QVT Approach to Automate a UML2 to J2EE Transformation
Thursday, May 8 9:30am – 10:30am (TS-7466)
- Mylyn: Code at the Speed of Thought
Thursday, May 8 10:50am – 11:50am (TS-6421)
- Open Source Development Tools for the JavaTM Platform, Enterprise Edition, Web 2.0, and SOA
Thursday, May 8 4:10pm - 5:10pm (TS-7479)
Friday, May 9 2:50pm - 3:50pm (TS-7479) **** I wonder if this is an error since it has two time slots but the same session id?
- Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist, Friday, May 9 1:30pm - 2:30pm (TS-5555)
btw, whomever designs the JavaOne conference site should really think about making it easy to link directly to the sessions. I tried but it didn’t really seem possible.
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Posted by Ian Skerrett
April 24, 2008
I am starting to work on the launch plans for Ganymede. I have a lot of respect and admiration (especially their graphics) for the way Mozilla promotes Firefox, so it was great to see Paul Kim blogging about their plans for Firefox 3.
I agree with Paul, that having a mix of traditional pr activities and grassroots outreach activities is important. For the Ganymede launch we will do some traditional pr outreach and for grassroot outreach we are planning a new series of Demo Camps, a blogging network similar to last year and I hope a series of videos about each project. What else should we be doing to launch Ganymede?
btw, if anyone wants to help with graphics for Ganymede, we have opened a bug to solicit ideas.
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Posted by Ian Skerrett
April 22, 2008
A blog post on CIO.com is making the point that participation in an open source project can help kick-start your career. I often find that individual developers like to work on open source projects, since it is fun and even ‘cool’. The ability to get peer recognition and immediate feedback can be a great motivator.
Howewer, I had not thought about the aspect of corporate career progression. Does anyone have good or bad experiences their participation in an open source project helping their career?
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