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I visited J-Fall 2008 today, another successful Java conference organized by the NLJUG. J-Fall/J-Spring are the biggest Java events in the Netherlands, it's always fun to visit, see what the latest developments are, what people are doing and how crazy the conference booths are. Although actually the booths were pretty quiet this time, which is ...

Shameless plug: If you are a member of the NLJUG Dutch Java User Group you receive Java Magazine for free. The latest edition of Java Magazine contains my article about the IBM Jazz ALM tooling project. If you are interested in ALM tooling or what IBM is up to with Jazz, be sure to read it! If you are not a NLJUG member yet, sign up! It's ...

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 2008 and will kick off the conference with a keynote. Besides Adobe, we are also proud to ...

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 in fast. It’s gonna be quite the busy schedule. It would probably be a wise idea ...

Last wednessday was the NL-JUG J-Spring 2008 conference, which is probably the biggest Java event in Holland by now. The event was packed with over 1100 visitors, but organized very well and everything went smooth. NL-JUG co-lead and collegue Bert Ertman was awarded the very prestigious Java Champion title which makes him the one of two Dutch ...

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 the keynote presentation of the J-Spring conference by Klaasjan Tukker, president of the ...

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 ...

Last tuesday Adobe organized a Flex event for NLJUG members. James "RIA Cowboy" Ward and Bruce "thinking in stuff" Eckel, both experienced speakers were 'around' for JavaPolis in Antwerp anyways, so they came to Adobe Amsterdam and presented some stuff on Flex 3 and AIR there as well. I had a great evening. The ...

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 ...

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 ...