Just a short notice: I am honored to be a member of the JCG Program as of today. The JCG program builds mutually beneficial partnerships between Java Code Geeks and community bloggers whose articles are of interest to the Java developer community. The pro…
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Showing posts from September, 2011
As every year in September it finally is time for a series of blog posts about the happenings in San Francisco. September is the Oracle month. Beside the big Oracle Open World we also have the little sister Oracle Develop and finally the no 1 Java happening J…
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It's been some time since I published a post in my data analysis series. Following WJAX and Devoxx it's finally time to look at Jfokus. As usual, this was compiled from the sources available (compare links at the end of the post). The CfP for Jfokus…
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The third part in my recent interview series: "The Heroes of Java" . Martijn Verburg herds Cats in the Java/open source communities and is constantly humbled by the creative power to be found there.He is the co-lead for London JUG (a JCP EC me…
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The third part of my German article series on heise.de/developer went online this morning. The third part is about InvokeDynamic and Classloader changes with Java 7. I tried my best to explain what the new bytecode instruction is all about and what it me…
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A lot has been written about this and this basically should be common knowledge, but talking to different people out there and looking at the efforts Google takes to improve page speed it seems to me that the topic is worth a second and current look. The ba…
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Another short information for my fellow readers. I received confirmation that two of my submitted talks for EclipseCon Europe Java 7 Summit were approved. I'm proud to be part of the newly announced Java 7 Summit . The Java 7 Summit offers Java developer…
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The second part in my recent interview series: "The Heroes of Java" . Charles Oliver Nutter has been programming most of his life, as a Java developer for the past decade and as a JRuby developer for over four years. He co-leads the JRuby p…
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A lot has been talked about application configuration in the past. I don't know who kicked off the debate but the most fundamental reading (with a look at future Java EE 7 and beyond) is Antonio Goncalves' posting [Debate] – And what about configurati…
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The first part in my recent interview series: "The Heroes of Java" . Marcus Lagergren holds an M.Sc. in computer science from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He has a background in computer security but has worked with r…
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The Heroes of Java
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There are Rockstars out there. Ninjas or some other kind of guys been given or given themselves titles like famous and successful members of well know communities. Sometimes it all sounds like there is slightly more to it than communicating some kind of cel…
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I've been playing around with visualizations since some time. You might remember my post about GlassFish City where I did a visualization with CodeCity. I came across another great visualization tool called Gource . It paints an animated tree of your pro…
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Thanks @DZone!
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You know, I don't often get gifts. And if I get some, I'm feeling sad about receiving them (Exception: Books and T-Shirts ;)). This weekend a special envelope was squeezed into my mailbox. Send from the DZone Team. "In Appreciation for your …
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Use Java 7! I am not kidding!
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What a month for Java 7. Articles about the new features all over and just at the release day , Apache issued a warning , not to use Java. That's a big meal for the press and German based S&S Media caught up on that quickly ( Java 7 Causes Headaches f…
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Another short hint about a recently published article of mine. The German iJUG Magazin called " Java Aktuell " is available since 1st of September and you can read all about the new Java 7 release. If you like, you can check out some other articles …
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JavaOne is coming closer day by day. Another proof of that is, that the official Mobile App for JavaOne was launched yesterday. Great news! Let's rock&roll. It's available from pyxismobile.com . You can download a BlackBerry version (>=OS 5.0)…
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WARNING: This is a personal post about nothing real Java related. If you don't like it, I apologize and I promise that this is not going to happen more frequent than it already did over the past few years. All others are welcome to read about me, myself a…
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