Events (Page 2)
JavaOne is Rebuilding Momentum
Just finished up an extremely busy week at JavaOne and there was a lot to like about this year's event. There were plenty of surprise announcements, lots of good content/sessions, and a lot of improvements on the venue and organization.
Steveonjava Track at JavaOne
The JavaOne Session Builder is now up and available for setting up your sessions. If you are not used to the JavaOne ritual, it is always a good idea to sign-up for sessions well in advance so you don't get bumped out of the more popular ones. This also helps them fix the room allocation so popular talks get the right size room.
Improving Java 1 Bytecode at a Time
This past weekend we held the very first OSCON JVM Languages Symposium.
The Frugal Geek's Guide to Conference Crashing
Conferences are expensive... they assume you work for a stacked megacorporation that believes the fastest path to increasing their shareholder value is investing in your individual career training. If your employer is not having a great year or has had a surge of resignations from last year's crew of esteemed conference goers, chances are that you won't be getting reimbursed to attend your local geek-fest.
Celebrating Java 7 with 7 Reasons to Attend OSCON Java
OSCON Java is a new conference that I am helping to kick off as co-chair this July. While there are plenty of conferences out there that you could attend, I am confident that this is the one you won't want to miss.
OSCON Java, The Java Open Source Conference
It is pretty easy to get lost in the media hype around the Java events of the past year. If you follow the headlines, you might believe that all the Java talent left Oracle in a mass exodus, Larry hates open source, or Java is turning into the next COBOL. Regardless of the factual correctness of these headlines, the Java ecosystem is about more than a single company or set of individuals. Java has the largest open-source community of any language in existence!
JavaFX 2.0 at the Chennai JUG
I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at the Chennai Java User Group during my trip to India. I was expecting a small group of very devoted Java fans; however, I was surprised to walk into a room of over 200 developers eager to learn about JavaFX 2.0. The venue was very impressive with rows of workstations that we later used for a lab, as well as plenty of seating.
Flash Capability Reporter Sample and Video
The folks at Marakana did a great job hosting the recent Flash Android event, as well as recording and publishing the talk. As a fellow user group leader, I can appreciate the hard work that went into preparing the video, including some fine editing and splicing by Max Walker (the presentation was not as flawless as he made it look!)
Beginning Flash at the SF Android UG
One of my coauthors on the upcoming Pro Android Flash title, Oswald Campesato, and I had the pleasure of speaking to the San Francisco Android User Group. It was a packed audience with around 150 eager Android developers who wanted to hear how they could use Flash on their devices (they were a great audience). Here is what some of them had to say about the meetup: Alec Dara-Abrams Stephen and Oswald gave a very good over view of Flash development on Android. Like a number of other SF Android speakers, packing the hour or so with the right level of technical detail. Thanks to them also for being responsive to audience questions - not so easy I'd guess with 100+ people out there past the lighting for the video. I'm looking forward to following Stephen's blog. Drew Dara-Abrams Stephen and Oswald gave a good overview of the current state of Flash on Android. Unfortunately the Adobe tools and their book won't be out until spring, but I appreciated all the working examples of code that Stephen demonstrated. I'll definitely look for their book when it comes out. Francisco Carretero Looks like an incredibly useful topic for android for giving android that push to the next level. As I promised folks in the audience, here is a copy of the full presentation. Lots of this information was added very recently from different chapters in our book, so it is definitely the latest and greatest source of information on what you can do with Flash on mobile devices:
Alternative Languages at Devoxx and Soon JavaOne Brazil
I did my JavaFX Alternative Languages talk at Devoxx and will soon be presenting it at JavaOne Brazil (December 7-9th).
"Flash On..." Group Kicked Off!
We did a double header meeting in the North and South bay to kick off the Flash On group. It was a lot of work to coordinate and present back-to-back meetings, but it all came together. A big thanks to my co-presenter Oswald Campesator, my co-coordinators Keith Sutton and Justin Webb, and also, Nick Turner, from Plug and Play's Mobile Meetup, who did an outstanding job on Thursday evening.
JavaFX 2.0 With Alternative Languages at the SvJugFx
It is kind of ironic, but after a year running I have never spoken at my own user group. In November I am going to break the trend and present an updated version of the JavaFX Alternative Language talk that I gave at JavaOne. You can sign-up for the event here:
Flash Android Development at Code Camp
I haven't talked much about Flash technology on my blog, but we use quite a bit of Flash/Flex for developing enterprise apps at my day job. With the Open Screen Project from Adobe making Flash available on mobile and embedded devices, Flash has become a viable cross-platform toolkit fulfilling a lot of what I hoped JavaFX Mobile would become.
JavaOne Expert RIA Track
This is going to be a big year for JavaFX and RIA technologies at JavaOne. What does your JavaOne schedule look like this year? Are you going to settle for beginner content, or are you ready for the Expert RIA Track.
JavaFX Your Way: Building JavaFX Applications with Alternative Languages
Bay Area JUG Round-Up and Stuart's Hands-on JavaFX Videos Available
I am pleased to announce that we have a couple new videos available on the Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group (SvJugFx) video site. Here is a link to the landing page where you can watch these videos as well as all our previous sessions:
JavaFX Talks Accepted
I am honored to be accepted by some great conferences to speak on JavaFX. Each of the talks I am giving is unique, which means more work for me, but is a great opportunity to talk about some different topics that I think are important for folks using JavaFX.
JavaFX Store and JFrog Artifactory Videos on Ubivent
Our April SvJugFx presentation will feature Stuart Marks from the JavaFX Team in Hands on JavaFX - Scripting the Scene Graph. To attend in person or via our live web stream (and be eligible for great prizes!), please sign-up here: http://www.svjugfx.org/calendar/12863551/
Live Video Streaming Guide – Part 2 : Hardware
This is the second installation of my Live Streaming Guide, which will go over all the hardware you need to get setup. While you can spend tens of thousands of dollars on professional gear, it is possible to put together a high quality setup for a fraction of that cost. You may also be able to reuse some of your existing hardware, further reducing the cost.
Hinkmond's JavaFX Mobile Dojo
In case you missed the big event last week, I have finished post-processing and uploading the video. We took the quality up a notch by getting a direct screen capture from the presenter laptop. This means that you will not only get crystal clear slides, but also full-screen demos and a nice tight head-shot of the presenter. This moves our video setup firmly up from a Level 4 to a premium Level 1 operation as detailed in Stephan Janssen's blog.