Bert Ertman

Impressions from Oracle OpenWorld: “Is Oracle good for Java?”

Here’s a little write-up of my Oracle OpenWorld impressions so far. I’ll try to make it a complete, logical story, but first I would like to second some excellent observations made by fellow Java Champion Cay Horstmann (yeah, the hero that...

Published 14-10-2009 1:53 by berte

Filed under: Java, Java Champions, OpenWorld, Oracle, Sun

Is Java Update visually preparing us for Oracle?

It has been a while since I last used my Vista box at home. The Apple MacBook Pro that I own since January has been my primary workhorse ever since. Anyway, while I was updating my Vista machine with the necessary updates of all sorts, the following catches...

Published 12-08-2009 15:21 by berte

Filed under: Java

DevDays talk: Web Service Interoperability with WCF and Project Metro is now online!

The first of my two DevDays 2009 talks titled 'Web Service Interoperability with WCF and Project Metro' is now online at Microsoft's Channel 9 video service. The video, with slides and demos is freely accessible in a variety of formats, so...

Published 14-07-2009 21:07 by berte

Filed under: Java, DevDays, Web Services, Interoperability

Conference-fever - DevDays and JavaOne here I come!

What has a Java Champion got to do at a Microsoft conference you might wonder? Well, first and foremost I’m not changing my beliefs now that Oracle plans on buying Sun, that’s for sure. The sole reason for my DevDays appearance is that I’ve...

Published 25-05-2009 16:15 by berte

Filed under: NLJUG, JavaOne, DevDays

Meanwhile, behind the scenes of J-Fall 2008…

J-Fall preparations are in full effect by now, and pavilion space is rapidly selling out. We are geared towards producing another 1,000+ attendees Java community event in the Netherlands on November 12th! Adobe Systems will be the main sponsor of J-Fall...

Published 30-09-2008 16:06 by berte

Filed under: J-Fall, NLJUG

JavaOne 2008 – Prologue

A lot of great things are called prologue these days ;-) My thumb still hurts from driving the Audi R8 for three consecutive hours trying to beat my lap time on the Eiger Nordwand. Still gotta buy one of these . JavaOne 2008 is around the corner and closing...

Published 21-04-2008 21:10 by berte

Filed under: NLJUG, JavaOne

breaking news I've become a Java Champion!

Breaking news here folks! Yesterday, at the J-Spring conference in Bussum, Netherlands it was announced that I have been honored by being awarded the coveted title of Java Champion by an international panel of Java Leaders. The announcement was made during...

Published 17-04-2008 15:31 by berte

Filed under: NLJUG, Java, Java Champions

JavaPolis 2007 - Day 3, 4, 5: Conference

This blog entry is a combined piece of coverage for JavaPolis days 3, 4, and 5, in other words: The Conference. I have several reasons for doing this not in the least because of the very busy schedule and the bizarre problems I ran into with the wireless...

Published 16-12-2007 14:22 by berte

Filed under: NLJUG, EJB 3.0, Java, agile, JavaOne, JavaPolis

JavaPolis 2007 – Day 2: University

Day 2 started off with some coffee and a session titled “SOA using Java Web Services”. I must say that I had high expectations for this talk as I recently had been in lots and lots of discussions about SOA and web services in general. This...

Published 13-12-2007 6:59 by berte

Filed under: NLJUG, EJB 3.0, Java, JavaPolis

JavaPolis 2007 – Day 1: University

Ehrm… ok got to admit it… this blog has been pretty much brain dead over the past few months. But, according to tradition I got to cover at least a few conferences a year and since its JavaPolis time again that is just barely enough of an...

Published 10-12-2007 22:19 by berte

Filed under: NLJUG, Java, JavaPolis

JavaOne 2007 - Slides online!

Most of the slides of the JavaOne conference are online by now. They were temporarily taken offline after the conference and moved to the JavaOne Online site where you can download 'em free of charge. Multimedia session will be added to the same site...

Published 22-05-2007 20:24 by berte

Filed under: JavaOne

JavaOne 2007 – Days 3/4 it’s a wrap!

So this time a combined blog entry for conference days 3 and 4. Right now I’m thinking about explaining why I did that and come up with some lousy excuses for not filing a separate day 3 report, but the truth is that the conference has really taken...

Published 11-05-2007 21:55 by berte

Filed under: Java, JavaOne

JavaOne 2007 – Day 2 Half way

As I’m just returning from the JUG leaders BoF session and the hour is late, I will probably keep this entry short. Day 2 of the conference was another interesting day. The morning keynote was presented by Oracle and they did a good job at making...

Published 10-05-2007 8:02 by berte

Filed under: NLJUG, Java, JavaOne

JavaOne 2007 – Day 1 - Conference Kick-off

I once again have the privilege of attending JavaOne in San Francisco. This morning the official day 1 general session kicked off and with it comes 81 hours of JavaOne. If you’ve been there before, it’s easy to tell what the first 20 minutes...

Published 09-05-2007 7:22 by berte

Filed under: EJB 3.0, Java, JavaOne

JavaOne 2007 - Afterdark scoop!

Read the scoop on the JavaOne AfterDark Bash on Klaasjan's blog ! Battlebots...yeah! :-)

Published 22-04-2007 16:24 by berte

Filed under: JavaOne

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