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Monday May 05, 2008

[ Java ] JavaOne 2008

I will be at JavaOne 2008 for most of this week.

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Tuesday January 29, 2008

[ Java ] Next Generation Java Testing

At Java.Net, I have written a short review of a Java testing (TestNG) book.

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Wednesday May 09, 2007

[ Java ] Soccer {Football} after JavaOne

If you're at JavaOne this week and do not leave San Francisco before Friday night, consider joining me and a few others (from Brazil, Norway, Switzerland, Germany, France, etc.) to play some soccer {football} near the Golden Gate Bridge. It is a great way to have everything you've seen and learned at JavaOne sink in!

I've posted the logistics information on my java.net blog. 

(The above picture originally appeared here.) 

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Friday May 04, 2007

[ Java ] Blog Entries on JavaOne 2007

At java.net, I will be compiling some blog entries in anticipation of JavaOne 2007 and following the conference (mostly from the pavilion floor).

For a database related topic, you might want to check out Francois Orsini's "Enabling Offline Web Applications with Java DB," where he previews his upcoming JavaOne talk with Zimbra's Kevin Henrikson.

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Monday December 11, 2006

[ Java ] Not Just About Diamonds

JavaPolis 2006 proves that Antwerp is not just about the diamond, the ruby, other jewels or gems. It is also about Java and the Java Community. As a starter, you may want to check out Francois Orsini's Hands-on JavaDB (Apache Derby) Lab.

For more, including on the recent, generally-available release of JDK 6, see here. 

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Monday May 29, 2006

[ Java ] A simple Applet for Game of 15

If your browser has a proper Java SE 1.5 plug-in, you can find the simple Applet here.

For more on Game of 15, you can look here.

The game is often listed among the well-known NP-Complete problems.

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Wednesday May 17, 2006

[ Java ] Slot Car Racing at JavaOne 2006

Read about it here, or here, or at its official web site.

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[ Java ] JavaOne is better than ever

Given my impressions from the first day of JavaOne 2006, I believe JavaOne is now far better organized, more effective and with greater substance than the ones I ones I attended and spoke at in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002. Perhaps, the trouble was that in these other JavaOne's I was a speaker. When you're a speaker at JavaOne, you become a bit too focused on your own talk and forget that there are other things going on, too.

In any case, I can sense a very significant improvement, and it has to do, I think, with Sun's diligent work to collect and use feedback from the attendees, greater involvement of the engineers in the organizing and refereeing committees and a general raising of awareness regarding audience expectations. People like Sreeram Duvur, Bill Shannon, Graham Hamilton, Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart, and countless others, including excellent engineering teams such as Ludo Champenois, Jerome Dochez and Roberto Chinnici, who have contributed and paid a great deal of attention to details that make the conference a really useful one for developers.

On this first day, there was a very good reception of the Derby talk given by Dan Debrunner and David Van Couvering (May 16, 2006). People asked some good questions regarding XML support (the person raising this question was invited to join and contribute to the Apache / Derby community), the timing of recovery (does it happen at the time next connection is opened? earlier? later?), performance compared to other databases, etc. People seemed to be using Derby or thinking of it.

The Derby evening event put together by Sun and IBM, Tuesday night (May 16, 2006), was also well-attended. People seemed more interested in the conversations than in the food, which was also very good, or the drink. For our parts, it was a great opportunity for our visiting, Trondheim, Norway engineering team to meet and mingle with other Derby contributors.

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[ Java ] Concurrent Programming w/ java.util.concurrent

Concurrent programming with Java has entered a new era with the java.util.concurrent libraries.

What we used to build, painstakingly, is now before us to use.

One of the sessions at JavaOne 2006 was devoted to this library.

I've written about this session in much greater detail on my java.net weblog.

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Monday May 15, 2006

[ Java ] Another Conference Planner

If you're attending JavaOne 2006, you may want to check out the planner JavaLobby has hosted for the conference. (I found it very useful although I'm also running a parallel schedule using Schedule Builder.)

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[ Java ] JavaOne 2006, Day 0

I'll be doing most of my JavaOne 2006 related blogging at java.net.

Most recently, I'm pointing to an informal BoF event focused on Apache / Derby.

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Friday May 05, 2006

[ Java ] 12 Days to JavaOne

At the time I write this, only 12 days are left to JavaOne 2006. (I've also blogged about it, here, in anticipation.)

Getting active and browsing through the forums seems like a good way to see what concerns people in each of the large categories of Java technologies.

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Wednesday August 03, 2005

[ Java ] Where I Write About Java

FYI, I've started writing about Java elsewhere.

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Saturday June 18, 2005

[ Java ] Another Weblog, Another Day

I have a new blog at java.net for notes having to do with Java and purely software-related matters: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mortazavi/.

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Tuesday June 14, 2005

[ Java ] My Other Weblog

I've started a new weblog at Java.Net.

Here, I've focused on general issues having to do with business, economics, technology, social life and art.

There, I'll be focusing mostly on software and Java.

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Thursday March 24, 2005

[ Java ] His Holiness, The Duke

I cannot help but add His Holiness, The Duke to the blogroll.

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Monday March 14, 2005

[ Java ] Fingerprint for Commerce

Edeka, a German supermarket chain, has piloted and plans to use finger prints as proof of identity at point-of-sale, Reuters reports. As an exercise, consider why it would be harder to do less secure to do same with ATMs? Presence of a person or (persons) around the cash stand, who can view the finger being placed on the fingerprint reader may provide a clue.

Commerce, Identity, Germany.

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Monday January 17, 2005

[ Java ] Workplace Blogs, Wikis and Groupware

To what extent workplace blogs and wikis act as effective groupware?

A Sloan School of Management study by Wanda J. Orlikowski focuses on organizational issues in implementing groupware. Here's a central conclusion of the study.

. . . in competitive and individualistic organizational cultures--where there are few incentives or norms for cooperating or sharing expertise--groupware on its own is unlikely to engender collaboration. Such products will be interpreted as counter-cultural, and to the extent that they are used they will promote individual not group aims.

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Friday January 14, 2005

[ Java ] Blogs, Participation and Protest

One apparently unfounded blog can turn a possibly well-meaning protest ("not one damn dime") into a bizarre hot-bed of rumors with cold tracks requiring clarifications (by Bill Moyers).

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Tuesday January 11, 2005

[ Java ] WP Photo Report from CES

The Washington Post has an interesting photo report from the Consumer Electronics Show, 2005. The diversity in concepts and their usefulness is, as usual, astounding.

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