Not everything in JavaOne is about Java. Since Oracle decided to combine all of its conferences (OpenWorld, Oracle Develop and now that they own Sun, JavaOne), they did a massive party at Treasure Island in San Francisco. Around 50,000 people went there to enjoy different bands and artists, like the Steve Miller Band, Don Henley, […]
Well, I was going to try and talk about every session that I’ve been to, and about many of the new and old frameworks that I’ve seen, but one of the downsides of having the sessions in multiple hotels is that you’re basically running from one place to another in between session. But I will […]
Yesterday I attended Oracle’s JavaOne keynote, presented by Thomas Kurian. The keynote focused on how has Java evolved and where it is right now. Millions of users use Java every day and the JVM is everywhere, form desktop computers to embedded devices. But we all knew that. As for the future of Java, Thomas mentioned […]
I attended the session entitled "Extreme Java Productivity: Enterprise Applications in Just Minutes", which is just a fancy session name for the presentation of Spring Roo. What is Roo? In short, Roo is a Rapid Application Development tool that allows you to start a typical webapp project from scratch, add things like database, entities, etc. […]
Mark Reinhold just finished his presentation that describes what lies ahead for Java 7. He divided the new features in 5 topics: Productivity, Performance, Universality, Modularity Integration, Serviceability. In the Productivity area, we should expect to see new features like simplified Generics, which allows for easier code writing by not having to repeat the generic […]
It is the first day of JavaOne, and I’m sure it is exciting from all the tweets and posts I’ve seen from other people. Unfortunately for me, my excitement comes in the fact that I have to wait more than 2 hours for my Continental flight, which has been delayed due to the fact that […]
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. […]
I was invited to test the new digg site, and part of the process of adding my blog as a feed is to create a post with a key. This is such post. 2020f20fe520496d9894eafb6e9c00dc
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 […]
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 […]
