I read some time ago about a developer who mistakenly pushed his AWS keys to a public Github repository and ended up with a big bill as hackers used his credentials to create EC2 instances to mine for bitcoins. The worst part is that it wasn’t entirely his fault, as the Github plugin for Visual […]
Ever since I started writing this blog, I wanted to use a software that was easy to use and allowed me to focus on the important stuff, namely writing the posts, but also putting code snippets, images, etc. For more than 5 years I kept using Pebble, which is a Java-based blog web app, and […]
And we come to the last day of the Google I/O 2013 conference. On Friday, besides sessions there were also Code Labs, where you can get your feet wet on the new APIs and new features. I don’t know what was longer, the line for breakfast or the line for dropping off luggage at the […]
The second day of Google I/O was filled with session. There are different tracks that you can choose which include topics like Android, Google Glass, Google+, GAE, Google Maps, Youtube, etc. Some sessions were more popular than others, of course. For example, there was one Google Glass session “Developing For Glass” that was completely full, […]
Wednesday was the first day of the Google I/O 2013 conference. The doors opened at 7 am to let close to five thousand individuals into the breakfast area and into the line that eventually led to where the keynote was to take place. The organization went pretty well, with most people forming a single line, […]
It was the day before the conference. There wasn’t much to do except register, get your NFC enabled badge and maybe do some early shopping at the Google store. Registration opened at 2 pm sharp, and even though there was a big line the process went smoothly. You just had to scan your registration QR […]
Wow. It’s been over 2 years since my last post. How did I let that happen? Well, for once, I’ve been thinking about moving the blog from Pebble to WordPress (I like pebble, but there is more support and tools on wordpress), but I haven’t had the time (or the inclination) to actually do it. I […]
Three weeks ago Apple shocked the Java community by releasing a Java update on which the main "feature" was that they were deprecating Java on OS X. What this means is that Apple will no longer continue to develop its own Java Virtual Machine for its operating system. This caused many people to react against […]
Apple released an update to their Java environment on Wednesday, and among the changes the big one is that they have declared Java "deprecated". This has generated lots of buzz from the Java community, many of them saying that Apple is trying to kill Java on the Mac platform, or that OS X 10.7 "Lion" […]
(I had intended to release this earlier, but after 4 full days of conferencing and partying, I just didn’t have the energy and the concentration to finish it. But here it goes.) JavaOne is over. Five days of keynotes, sessions, exhibitions and thousands of people moving between them. This was my first official JavaOne, although […]
