Travelling, and not Arriving

Conferences: give us something new (and remarkable)

I just wanted to post a brief summary of my experience at the latest Jazoon, but Roman’s preceded me with a detailed post. I agree with him on every single point, so I’ll not annoy you repeating the same concepts.Overall, it has been a good first edition. There’s definitly space for improvements (more time [...]

Conference summer break

After spending pratically every day of these first half of the year hard working, it’s time for a (very) short break. So tomorrow I’ll be heading to Antwerp, to attend the last day of SpringOne.Unfortunately I’m not using Spring in my current projects, but it’ll be a good occasion to catch up with the latest [...]

See you at Jazoon, Zurich, June 24-28

My presentation “From J2ee to JavaEE… and beyond” has been accepted to Jazoon 2007; the conference will take place in Zurich, starting from June 24th.
The definitive schedule is not available yet, but you can already find a list of the technical presentations.

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 [...]

Ken Schwaber’s Scrum video (& co.)

Google is pushing out a lot of quality videos taken during its internal (or public) conferences. Check for example London Test Automation conference videos.

Furthermore, you can find a nice Ken Schwaber speech on Scrum. Really worth a look.

ApacheCon Europe program published

The schedule of the next ApacheCon Europe (Amsterdam, May 1-4 2007) is online; unfortunately my proposal hasn’t been accepted, but Sourcesense will be well represented by Gianugo, Ugo and Andrew.

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 [...]

ApacheCon last-minute submission

At the very last minute, yesterday I was able to submit my proposal for ApacheCon Europe, which will take place in Amsterdam next May. My proposal sounds like “Rapid development with Apache Wicket and EJB 3″, and reflects what I’m trying to do in this period: create a “development environment” (which involves tools, frameworks, IDEs) [...]

Todolist post-Javapolis

Every time I attend a great conference like Javapolis I end up writing a long todo list of cool things to investigate… a list that (sadly) gets always lost in the space of some weeks… So, without any further esitation, that’s the list for Javapolis 2006

XFire. I used XFire last year, when it [...]

Javapolis wrap-up

I’ve just come back from Antwerpen, so it’s time for a brief wrap-up, since I’ve had no time to blog during the week.
The conference was, as usual, excellent, with an impressive roster of speakers and the usual good organization; however, differently from the previous years (it’s my third time at javapolis since 2004), I’ve spent [...]