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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 provider at the hotel. It appeared that the access that I bought from within my hotel room was ...

Evolving agileThe final day of JavaPolis already. The combination of a few too many beers at Thursday and lack of interesting sessions in the first slot made me skip the first session. The first session I visited today was about agile, presented by Scott Ambler. First of all Scott Ambler is an excellent speaker, so I enjoyed listening. The ...

General session Adobe must have been happy with today's general session. We started the morning with another session from Bruce Eckel and James Ward about Flex. I saw most of it already in their university session earlier this week, but all of it keeps impressing me. What I didn’t see yet before is what Flex can do with offline clients ...

General session The General Session was mainly a talk from James Gosling about all kind of different Java related stuff. It’s just very interesting to hear someone like him giving his vision about Java. One of the things that I found most interesting was a short talk about applets. While applets are great in concept, they never really got ...

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 talk – at least by the title and the abstract – seemed to be interesting in that ...

Session 1 – Thinking in FlexI started the second day with a session about Adobe Flex, presented by Bruce Eckel and James Ward. I really enjoyed the session, not only because the topic is interesting but also because Bruce and James are very entertaining speakers. The fun thing is that they do actually really present together, instead of both ...

Today was the first day of JavaPolis in Antwerp. The first two days are separated in two 3-hour sessions, and two half-hour sessions. The 3-hour sessions are typically interesting because there is enough time available to go into the details of the subject and to show some interesting demos. JavaPolis is completely sold out, and more than 3000 ...

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 excuse to bring this blog back to life. So here we go… As usual a week of JavaPolis kicks ...

I decided to write a short article based on my visit to the Javapolis talk by Kevlin Henny (yes, he does look just like the picture) and my visit to the circus. Curious? Read the article here.