2015
20 "Cakes" of Java in Brazil
To celebrate 20 Years of Java we did a cross-country tour in Brazil for 20 days, visiting Java User Groups and Events across the country. It was long and grueling, but a lot of fun. And most importantly, we got to eat cake! Cake for breakfast (thanks to Otavio and his chocolate passion) and a Java cake for dinner... every single day!
Java DevOps at the swampUP
The folks at JFrog definitely know how to put on events in style. For several years they have had an exclusive cruise at JavaOne for "Frogs and Friends", and this year they stepped it up with a full day DevOps-focused conference in Napa, the heart of wine country.
Java Lego Workshop 4 Kids
This past weekend I did a Lego workshop for the local Devoxx4Kids bay area chapter. There were 35 excited kids from ages 8-14 who had their first taste of programming. While they expected to simply play with Legos for a few hours, they ended up hacking their first Java code in Eclipse.
More Java and VTS
I recently change roles at Oracle... previously I was a Java Technology Evangelist and now I am a Java Community Manager. So, you may be asking yourself what is the difference between an evangelist and a community manager... Here is the quick breakdown: Evangelists preach while managers buy pizza... looking forward to buying pizza for some JUGs! :) They probably won't "invite" me to customer meetings anymore... somehow I am fine with that. The Java part is still the same, so I can legitimately get away with drinking gourmet coffee and calling it work! And as part of my new role I am getting pulled into a lot of our community outreach efforts. You will see more of these showing up on my blog, but the most imminent one is the upcoming Virtual Technology Summit (VTS). It is like a conference, but without the annoying vendors. ;)
Congratulations to the 2014 JavaOne Rock Stars!
JavaOne is well known for its: Great Cuisine Formal Dress Code Excellent Content! Each year we award the top speakers for the JavaOne conference with the prestigious JavaOne Rock Star Award. This is done by taking a look at attendee feedback, so it really represents the folks who created the best content and experience for the JavaOne audience.