2012
NightHacking Nordic Tour
My last NightHacking tour through Europe was a huge success, but I missed a big part of Europe. The farthest North I was able to go was the United Kingdom, which means I missed all the Scandinavian countries, Iceland, and Finland.
JavaFX on Raspberry Pi - 3 Easy Steps [updated]
Note: Updated for NOOBS and Java 8 EA [changes highlight in red]
JavaOne Latin America Wrap-up
JavaOne Latin America in Sao Paulo Brazil just ended. It was a great event that had a huge community presence, which was responsible for selecting over 50% oft the content, and supported it throughout.
The NightHacking Tour Concludes – What is Next?
I just finished my NightHacking Tour across Europe. In 3 weeks, I hit 2 conferences, 5 user groups, and did over 30 interviews with NightHackers in 7 different countries.
NightHacking at Devoxx Schedule
In addition to the sessions I am giving at Devoxx, I also lined up an all-star set of speakers to have interviews with at Devoxx. I will be running these Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning (CET).
What You Have Been Missing on the NightHacking Tour...
If you haven't been watching the live stream of the NightHacking Tour, you have been missing out on a lot of geeky fun.
NightHacking Munich JUG Event
I just finished up a live session with the Munich JUG that was organized by Toni Epple. We started out with group introductions, and did an overview of JavaFX on the desktop and embedded platforms. There were lots of good questions about JavaFX support on mobile platforms, deployment of JavaFX, and real-world companies using JavaFX (but to find the answers you will have to watch the live stream):
NightHacking with James Gosling
James Gosling, the original Java NightHacker (see his great blog at http://nighthacks.org/), will be joining me this Wednesday to kick off the NightHacking Tour on a live video stream. This is a chance to watch James live and interact with him via the social stream (via UStream or by tweeting with #nighthacking) as we chat, hack, and discover some of the things he has been working on in his new gig at Liquid Robotics.
NightHacking Tour - The Road to Devoxx
From October 28th through November 11th I am going to be traveling by motorcycle across Europe and live-streaming events and interviews along the way. This includes the J-Fall and Devoxx conferences as well as an all-star line-up of interviews, including the following geeks:
JavaFX in Spring Day 3 - Authentication and Authorization
Welcome to Day 3 of the JavaFX in Spring blog series. In this post we are going to finish off the Customer Data application by taking advantage of the Spring Security APIs on the client.
JavaFX in Spring Day 2 - Configuration and FXML
Welcome to part 2 of the JavaFX in Spring blog series. Yesterday I talked about some of the advantages of using Spring in client applications and showed how to initialize your application. For easy reference, you can flip to any of the blogs (as they are published) here: JavaFX in Spring Day 1 - Application Initialization JavaFX in Spring Day 2 - Configuration and FXML JavaFX in Spring Day 3 - Authentication and Authorization Today we will dig into the configuration in more detail, covering details on how you can handle FXML-based UIs. But before we get into all that work, a short aside about the San Antonio Java User Group I met earlier tonight.
JavaFX in Spring Day 1 - Application Initialization
I spoke recently to the Spring Dallas User Group, which was a great audience, and in preparation for the talk I dusted off my Spring Framework skills (with a little help from Josh Long). Even though Spring is primarily targeted at server-side applications, you can actually do quite a nice integration between the two technologies on the client. In addition to the full talk (which you can find below), I will elaborate on some of the patterns for building Spring/JavaFX hybrid applications in this blog.
Taking it Virtual!
I did a presentation at the Agile 2012 conference in Dallas on how to do Agile release planning with distributed teams. This is something that we struggled with at my last company since we had 300 developers split into 40+ teams in 5 different countries.
Kids Making the Future of Java
I had the opportunity to participate in the Make the Future of Java Workshop last week, which was a lot of fun. Kids ages 13 and up got a chance to learn how to program using Alice and Greenfoot technologies.
DZone Refcard Discussion Thread
Presentations in Portuguese for JustJava
I just finished a huge speaking engagement at JustJava Brazil. While I have been to Brazil several times before, this was my first time speaking at this event, and it was very impressive. The entire conference is community-run, and had a very good vibe to it with lots of attendees, great content, and a perfect venue to allow interaction and hallway conversations to happen.
JavaFX and HTML5 at JavaOne India
This past week I had the opportunity to attend JavaOne India, and in my opinion it was even better than last year. I was speaking together with Kevin Nilson, leader of the SV Web JUG, and he commented on what a great venue that had for the event, which was easily able to hold 2000+ attendees.
Oracle Propels JavaFX Forward by Enlisting Weaver and Chin
I put out an April Fools' post yesterday about joining NASA to help with exploration of the big red planet. That post was not far from the truth... all the details about technologies developed by NASA were 100% accurate. Heck, even the fact that I quit my job was the truth! The only part that was not true was the company that I will be joining.
Joining NASA to Conquer Space with Java
This was an April Fools' spoof -- everything is factual except the company I joined. Read more here.