Travelling, and not Arriving

Sun Microsystems: moneys for ideas

After Google and its Android competition, now it’s time for Sun Microsystems to come up with an interesting initiative to reward worldwide developers: the Netbeans Innovator Grant.
You can submit a project proposal — your ideas of how to improve the NetBeans Project — and a panel of experts will assign to the best proposals [...]

The Adobe Vs Sun debate (aka Lessions learnt at a keynote)

It’s a common known fact that most of the conference keynotes are quite boring, commercial and (unfortunately) inevitable presentations that have the only purpose of announcing the latest and greatest news from the sponsoring companies; more seldom, something interesting happens: that’s the case of last Thursday’s Javapolis keynote.
The schedule looked like quite innocent:

Thinking in Flex [...]

Pointy update from Javapolis, Antwerpen

I’m starting to like this pointy-update style; I’m definitely too lazy to write a full post, or complete one of the several draft sleeping in my Wordpress database, so that’s the simplest way to write down what’s happening lately.

I hit the road last Sunday, in the early morning, for Leiden, where I spent the day [...]

Pointy-update from Milano

Some burocrazy and family reunions led me back to Italy last Sunday, and I’m spending my first entire week in Italy since months. I took the opportunity for a quick visit to my friends of the Java User Group Milano last night; so, what’s happening down here?

I attended the November meeting of Jug Milano; it’s [...]

JavaDay in Turin

For the second year, the Java User Group Torino is organizing the JavaDay. The conference will be on the 20th of October. Don’t miss it, if you live in the area!
The Javaday is an initiative organized by the Italian Java User Groups, by the community of Java Italian Portal and by the Java Italian Association [...]

300 dots to connect

Last night, while working on another (great and exciting ) side project, I received an email notification telling me that another person had joined the Java User Group Milano; so I turned to the website, and…

..I must confess I had a sort of “wow” moment.
It’s not really the number of participants (which is probably [...]

May meeting of the Java User Group Milano

I’m not in Milano right now, but the other guys of the Java User Group Milano are still busy organizing new and interesting meetings: the next one will take place on Thursday, 24th May. The fil rouge of this meeting are Rich Internet Application. That’s the detailed schedule:
18.45 Welcome and JUG news
19.00 “Adobe Flex [...]

February meeting of the Java User Group Milano

The 23rd meeting of the Java User Group Milano will take place on Thursday, 22nd February, at 6.45 pm. This month we will talk about Maven 2 and Ruby. This is the detailed agenda:

6.45:Welcome
7.00: Maven 2 by Daniele Dellafiore
8.00: Ruby for Java Programmers by Ugo Cei

You can find more details here, and the GoogleMap to [...]

Jonas Boner @ Jug Milano - January 18th

As I anticipated some weeks ago, Jonas Boner will be our special speaker at the 22nd meeting of the Java Uesr Group Milano, on January 18th at 6.45pm.
Jonas is a well known speaker, architect and open source developer, founder of the AspectWerkz project and committer of AspectJ. He’s Senior Software Engineer at Terracotta.

The title of [...]

JugMilano’s January 11th meeting cancelled

Just a quick post to announce that Dennis Reedy won’t be able to come to Milan on January 11th, so our meeting will be cancelled.
However, we have another meeting scheduled for January 18th, with another great international speaker: Jonas Boner.
Check this page for all the details.