Category: Java

Java

I’m going to JavaOne

I guess I should’ve probably said something before, but I’m actually going to be attending the JavaOne this year, thanks to Oracle. They were kind enough to give me a Blogger Conference Access pass which allows me to attend not only all the conferences at JavaOne, but also the ones at Oracle Develop and OpenWorld. […]

Guillermo Castro 
Java

New podcast series

A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine (Craig Tataryn) asked me if I could participate along with him and other people in a weekly podcast. Jeff Genender, Justin Lee and Jason Whaley also agreed to join in this effort. Thus, The Basement Coders Podcast came to be, and I think we’ve had some […]

Guillermo Castro 
Java

To JavaOne or Not to JavaOne

Ever since I started using Java back in 1997, I’ve wanted to go to a JavaOne event but was unable to. The closest I’ve been to one was two years ago, when I just happened to be on the same city (San Francisco) on a business trip. But this year, even though technically I could […]

Guillermo Castro 
IDE

Switching to IDEA, another tale

And since we’re talking about switching stuff, another thing that I recently changed is the IDE I’m using on a day by day basis. I have been a long time Eclipse user, and I still think it is a great IDE, specially for the price (you can’t beat free, can you?). It is stable enough, […]

Guillermo Castro 
General Java

Resurrecting my blog

It’s really been a long time since I’ve updated this site. I could make up excuses like too much work, too little time, or simply that I didn’t think there was anything worth to say. Some of it may be true, but the important thing here is that what I wanted to do with this […]

Guillermo Castro 
Java

My thoughts after 10 years of Java programming

A couple of months ago (June, to be precise) was my 10th year anniversary of doing Java programming. In that time, I’ve worked with several technologies, seen a couple of interesting projects and worked for different companies in different sectors, both as a consultant and as an employee. I thought I should share a couple […]

Guillermo Castro 
Java Web

Google Web Toolkit (beta) released

Google has just released the beta version of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). The GWT is a Java-based toolkit that lets you create AJAX-enabled pages using Java. The main idea of the toolkit is that once you create your app following the GWT API, you will then compile your Java classes into Javascript and HTML, […]

Guillermo Castro