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"Three Crazy Weeks"
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I’ve been on the road two out of the last three weeks, speaking and attending three
conferences: JUDCon London, EclipseCon in Ludwigsburg and finally Devoxx in Antwerp.
h1. JUDCon London
At JUDCon I was co-hosting the third live JBoss Asylum Podcast together with Emmanuel
Bernard. The topic was “Polyglot JBoss” with Marek Goldmann and Galder Zamarreno as guests
talking about how JBoss supports, extends and develop on multiple languages outside just
Java.
The recording of this is
http://asylum.libsyn.com/webpage/podcast-22-polyglot-j-boss-at-jud-con-lo... available on
JBoss Asylum site or
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=332953048 iTunes.
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Image curtesy Eric D. Schabell.
After the panel we got a set of lightning talks done by JBossians and external
contributors which I had the pleasure of moderating. Was great fun.
I did the first lightning talk about how you make your examples for your
framework/distribution the most accessible to users. Not everyone liked the conclusion,
but I got good feedback on the content, thus I re-recorded the audio for this talk.
I’ve made the slides available together with the audio on
http://vimeo.com/groups/jbosstools/videos/32501925 JBoss Tools Vimeo group.
If you just want the the slides you can get those from
http://www.slideshare.net/maxandersen/ my SlideShare
At JUDCon I spent most of my time talking with attendees and colleagoues, but also did
find time to attend a few talks. One of those stood out, namely “Hibernate Puzzlers” by
Patrycja from
http://twitter.com/yonlabs @yonlabs. She presented a set of puzzlers and
even though I knew all the issues she was presenting on, her puzzlers did caught me being
unsure what the right answer was. Well worth watching if you get a chance.
h1. EclipseCon
At Eclipsecon Europe they were celebrating it was 10 years since the first release of
Eclipse the IDE. I unfortunately missed out on the party and cake since I was sure the
celebration would be on the Thursday not Wednesday. Instead I spent that evening having
early dinner with Fred Bricon and then we went separate ways to prepare for our talks the
next day.
Fred did his first public presentation for Red Hat called “
http://eclipsecon.org/sessions/workaround-driven-development-how-maven-in...
Workaround Driven Development: How Maven integrates with Eclipse WTP”. He covered how the
https://github.com/sonatype/m2eclipse-wtp/wiki m2e-wtp project makes Maven usable in
context of Eclipse WTP projects and how it was technically done by bridging Eclipse and
Maven’s two different worldviews on projects.
All during EclipseCon we got very good feedback from users of m2e-wtp and how it was the
piece they were missing to actually be productive within their work on enterprise projects
- always good to hear we and especially Fred's work are making a difference.
My talk was about the experiences we’ve done with the move to Tycho on the JBoss Tools
project. It was hard to boil it down to a 20 minutes presentation but I think I succeded.
If you want to see and hear the presentation it is available from EclipseCon’s audio/video
recordings under:
http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/content/tycho-good-bad-and-ugly Tycho -
The good, the bad and the ugly
http://fosslc.org/drupal/content/tycho-good-bad-and-ugly
http://content.screencast.com/users/max.rydahl.andersen/folders/Jing/medi...
h1. Devoxx
Devoxx also had its 10th anniversary in Antwerp and I had the pleasure to attend and speak
again this year. This year with a quickie on how to “
http://www.devoxx.com/display/DV11/Deploy+JEE+applications+to+OpenShift Deploy Java EE
Applications to OpenShift”. I also got to reveal the news and do a demo of the new Jenkins
support on OpenShift.
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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-eEBJLVkZcNQ/TsreV-JMRWI/AAAAAAAABPQ/rH...
All in all a good talk but I don’t have a recording of this talk but the OpenShift team
released a video covering similar content.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Htd9vAxJAc&feature=player_embedded “Deploying Java
Apps to the Cloud with the OpenShift Eclipse Plug-in”
They even made a cartoon over the whole OpenShift release including JBoss Tools called “A
Comprehensive Lifecycle for Java Developers in the Cloud with OpenShift
(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raXByPQTd8s)”
Devoxx is also the conference in Europe where I get to meet up with many of the JBoss
folks speaking there and this year was no exception. What was exceptional this year was
though that we had a small booth this year leaving no space for the traditional fussball
table. That was no fun. Lincoln, Kabir and I did though find a way have fun since there
was beer and helium baloons at the booth:
http://vimeo.com/32212118 http://vimeo.com/32212118
Beyond having fun with helium I was also happy to hear that Google finally announced their
opensourcing of their GWT Eclipse plugin tools. You can read my thoughts on that in
http://community.jboss.org/community/tools/blog/2011/11/16/thoughts-on-go...
my previous blog entry.
The most work was though on helping getting the
http://ceylon-lang.org Ceylon website and
Eclipse updatesite ready for the planned launch at the end of Emmanuel Bernard and
Stephan’s talk about Ceylon.
That turned out to be quite tricky despite Devoxx wifi being the best ever, but we made it
through and now everyone can try out David Festal's Ceylon IDE by following the
http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/ide/ instructions on
ceylon-lang.org
Pierre-Antoine Gregorie snapped a photo of us hacking away on getting the site in shape:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-PJyLY2zLhbk/TsfJQktiS5I/AAAAAAAAyHU/uI...
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-PJyLY2zLhbk/TsfJQktiS5I/AAAAAAAAyHU/uI...
All in all three very busy weeks and I here I’m not even covering all the other work that
went on, but I’ll hopefully be able to write about the end-results of that in the upcoming
weeks and months.
Until then, Have fun!
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