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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
