As you might have guessed, I am into photography. At last a bit. I love taking pictures because of many reasons. One of them is the ability to focus. If you look through your lens you tend to see only parts of the whole and you are able to work out details th…
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Showing posts from September, 2010
Java SE 7, 8, 9 - The Road Ahead
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Another JavaONE followup. After I blogged about what's going to happen with Java EE , it is time to recall what was said by Chief Architect, Java Platform Group, Mark Reinhold on the same general technical session on September 18. After having the Java S…
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The JavaONE announcements about upcoming Java EE versions were anything but exciting. Nothing too concrete and nothing comparable to a road map or plan like Mark Reinold's presented for Java SE. But Roberto Chinnici still did some slides about Java EE.nex…
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A few days after being back in Germany I finally found the time to do a review about this years mega Oracle and Java event which happened from September 19-23 in San Francisco. As always, I already found a couple of things, that did not work for me . But in …
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I am at SFO and enjoying the 45min free wifi. Great service. Still some time left until boarding. Time to do a WrapUp posting. It was nice being with all the folks at JavaOne, OracleDevelop and OpenWorld. I love meeting with all those guys I normally only hav…
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The last real JavaOne/OpenWorld/OracleDevelop day for me. And it was completely busy. Meeting people. All over the day. Appointments. It was awesome. But exhausting. Especially if English is only your second language. Anyway, I meet a lot of wonderful people …
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Day 6: Working and Working
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Sleept longer today. Seems as if I get adjusted to the new timezone. Right in time for the flight back, which is'nt that far away. Great. Anyway. Yesterday was a mess. I had to work on some customer things in the morning and the real conference started ar…
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Being here for already five days, this was the first real conference day. And, to be honest, I am dead beaten after the last few days. So there were some sessions to attend, but the most obvious thing, we all were waiting for, was the JavaOne Keynote this eve…
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BREAKING: Exalogic Maschine
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Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is the world's first and only integrated middleware machine—a combined hardware and software stack optimized for running JVMs. One of the parts we know about since a few days. And we all were waiting for the official announce…
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Wow. Up after 6 hours of sleep again. Seems as if I have to catch up on sleep back in Germany. This is really tough. Anyway, it's worth it. After the more or less successful check in I was heading to the GlassFish Community Event . Roughly 150 people th…
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The wifi at the hilton is expensive (if you can not use the free oracle wifi beeing up in the towers) and therefore here is the post about yesterday. There was no official program yesterday at all. All ACED spread around and did their things. I teamed up wit…
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Second day in the states. Awake, as usual around 4 am. Not too comfortable. But this will get better over time. Today we had the second day of the annual ACE Directors briefing. Even if I would love to write about the actual contents and outlooks, we are not …
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Today was the first part of the annual ACE Director briefing at Oracle. An event that I was waiting for since some time now. The following people gave some short slots on their topics. As usual, this is too early to talk about the content, as most of this is…
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Ok. I finally managed to get here. Starting around 4pm in MUC I arrived at SFO 7:00pm local time after a short and entertaining 12h flight yesterday. The shuttle pickup worked perfectly. Thanks to Vikki and Lillian for organizing all this so perfectly. The ni…
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You have probably already seen the great Java One page , refering to the outstanding developers who are passionate about Java technology and the Java community. They share their insights about the future of Java and why they're excited about attending Jav…
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Hyphen usage in package names
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As always, the simple things in live make everything complicated. A co-worker came up with this and I would like to answer the question and point you to some additional links. Do we have a prefered way about our Java package names? Do we use the short: - de…
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It's here! The new magazin (Java Aktuell) from the german iJUG (Interessenverbund der Java User Groups e.V.). The iJUG was foundet right after the Sun/Oracle merger. Some of the most powerfull German Java User Groups (JUG) and the German Oracle Users Grou…
Continue ReadingShort notice: If you like to meet me and the following speakers: Ralph Soika (IMIXS GmbH), Michael Bräuer (Oracle), Frank Schwarz (buschmais GbR), Kai Wähner (MaibornWolff et al GmbH)and Adam Bien, you are invited to register at the DOAG SIG Java - Java Ent…
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You know, that I am "playing" around with the iPad recently. One part of the game is to look for suitable UI frameworks that assist you building modern "native looking" webapps for the iPad. There are some promissing approaches out there …
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