Arun Gupta, Miles to go ...
Arun Gupta is a technology enthusiast, a passionate runner, and a community guy who works for Sun Microsystems.
Wednesday May 13, 2009
GlassFish and Servlet 3.0 Slides from San Francisco JUG
As mentioned earlier,
Jan and I
talked about GlassFish
and Servlet
3.0 at the San
Francisco JUG yesterday night. Approximately 40 attendees and
a great Q&A session at the end made it a truly enjoying
experience.
The GlassFish slides are available here
and Servlet 3.0 slides are available here.
And did you register for JavaOne
? The GlassFish team will be there in full force and you'll be immersed
in similar talks.
Here are some pictures from around the venue and the attendees:
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Monday April 06, 2009
GlassFish at San Francisco Java Users Group - May 12th, 2009
Are you living in the San Francisco Bay Area and like to hear all the
craze around GlassFish
?
Jan Luehe
(from the GlassFish
Webtier team) and Roberto Chinnici
(Java EE 6
specification lead) will be speaking on May 12th at the San
Francisco JUG meetup. So get ready to drink from the firehose
:)
There will be pizza, refreshments, book giveaways and other interesting
goodies!
Click on the map below for directions:
Complete details about the event here,
make sure to RSVP!
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Monday November 17, 2008
GlassFish @ JavaMUG - Trip Report
Presented on GlassFish
at Java
MUG last week. The event is hosted at Sun's North Dallas Office.
It was impressive to know that local Sun team is hosting 4 User Groups (MySQL, Solaris, and OpenSolaris
other than the JUG) in a month.
The evening started around 6pm when the attendees started showing up
for socializing over Pizza and Soda. The JUG started with a brief
introduction by Eric Weibust - the JUG leader. The community leaders
from Spring User
Group, Dallas
Rules Group, and SOA
Users Group then gave an update in their user groups.
After the sponsor's
pitch, I explained What/Why/How of GlassFish. The slides are available here.
It was pretty exciting when 100% of attendees have heard about
GlassFish. A few of them are using it for development as well and now
we need to work on getting some production deployments there :)
The demos showed in the talk can be accessed at:
- Rapid Deployment using deploy-on-save for JSP/Servlets
- Rails develop/run/debug using NetBeans
- Secure, Reliable, Transactional, and .NET-interoperable Web service
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And then the complete album:
Tuesday November 11, 2008
GlassFish @ Java MUG tomorrow (Nov 12, 2008)
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I'll be presenting on GlassFish
@ Java MUG tomorrow. This is a highly opportune moment since GlassFish v3 Prelude was released last week. I plan to talk about GlassFish community, deliverables (including v2 and v3), NetBeans/Eclipse integration, the surrounding ecosystem, future directions and anything related that you are interested in :) |
The coordinates are:
Nov 12, 2008, 6:30pm
Sun's North Dallas Office
See you there!
I'm staying at Embassay Suites on Noel Road. Anybody aware of near by running trails ? Or interested in running together ?
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Sunday September 28, 2008
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SUCESU-ES
organized ES JUG
(Espirito Santo, Brazil) meeting yesterday and I presented on GlassFish. The
slides are available here.
There were approx 100 attendees and I was pleasantly surprised to see almost half the audience had heard of GlassFish. |
The complete agenda is published here and there were other speakers from Sun as well.
I did not get much time to talk to the audience afterwards because there were back-to-back sessions scheduled. But please feel free to drop a comment on this blog if you attended the talk and have any question/comment.
And they gave a great gift basked (loaded with Garoto chocolates), check out the picture of gift basket:
Thanks a lot!!
Check out some pictures:
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The complete album is available here:
Thursday September 25, 2008
Taguatinga - I shoot you, You shoot me
The picture was taken during Taguatinga DFJUG meeting.
Any guess who's the guy behind the camera ?
Another similar picture is here.
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GlassFish @ DF JUG in Taguatinga
Mauricio, Doris, Simon
and I visited DFJUG @ Taguatinga
yesterday (make sure to pronounce it
correctly, otherwise you'll be corrected again & again, as I
was :). 200 attendees, mostly students, stayed all along the 4
hourof
presentations. The projector stopped recognizing any laptop after first
two presos. Fortunately Simon had a backup projector but we lost time
in debugging but at least all of us could speak!
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On the way to JUG venue, Daniel and I talked more about how he is contributing towards social responsibility in the community. A particular one that touched me deeply is where JUG attendees are recommended to bring milk powder for needy children, such a noble thought! There were 150 boxes already donated for this JUG and more were expected at the actual venue. It's not difficult to find 100 volunteers (of the total 33,000 members) to coordinate this effort at each DFJUG venue, truly amazing. |
Another excellent step in that direction is where talented kids (between age 16-21) who cannot afford education are trained in Java to succeed in life. You can find more details at www.politecsolidaria.com.br about his efforts. Check out the picture of "cloud" at Politec's office ;-)
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Back
to the JUG, I presented on "GlassFish: The Best Open Source
Application Server" and the slides are available here. Drop a comment on the blog if you attended the talk. The demos shown during the talk can be easily reproduced as explained here and here. |
I also had a good interaction with faculty in Facitec (JUG venue) and they are already planning to use GlassFish/NetBeans for their upcoming curriculum courses. spotlight.dev.java.net/start provides a comprehensive list of resources (tutorials, course material, hands-on-lab, videos, etc) if you are interested as well.
Look at the following pictures during Simon's talk on JavaFX:
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Either JavaFX or Simon's British accent was having an amorous effect on the audience, or it was too late on Wednesday night (around 10:30pm) or may be it's just Brazilian culture ;-) Simon's demo on controlling Wii Nintendo and JavaFX was very well appreciated (lots of whistles for a long time). You can see the demo here:
Once again, freebies got the attendees excited. Thanks Koshuke for the tip and Aaron (JUG Program Coordinator) to provide the goodies. It was definitely worth carrying them all the way. A picture is worth a thousand words and here are a few to prove that:
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Check out some other pictures from the JUG meeting:
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The evening ended with a late night BBQ dinner at a friend's house, really great dinner and wonderful hospitality. The topic of discussions ranged from Cricket, most pointeless/boring sports in Olympics, Mah-jong, traffic in India :) My second dinner in Brazil and I'm still sleeping/eating Pacific Time zone :)
Once again, a wonderful arrangement by Mauricio, Daniel & Fernando. Obrigado!
Here is the complete album so far:
Wednesday September 24, 2008
GlassFish @ DF JUG in Brasilia
Started San Francisco 2 days back, through Washington Dulles, with a
stop over @ Rio de Janeiro and finally arrived Brasilia yesterday.
The local airlines (TAM) from Rio to Brasilia offered a nice sandwich
where as any meal need to be bought during domestic travel in US (even
if it's across the continent). So that was a nice experience!
Daniel deOliveira, a Java
Champion and DF
JUG(oldest & biggest with 33,000 member
Java User Group) founder and leader picked me up at the airport. He
demonstrated
true welcoming spirit by taking me around the city and showing the key
places. And again he volunteered to take me to the venue of JUG. It was
pretty impressive to know that he teaches Java to deaf and blind as
part of social responsiblity program in his company. At the JUG venue,
I met Fernando
Anselmo - Architect of Solutions of Directory of Solutions @ Politec,
a Java
Champion, DFJUG Moderator, and an avid NetBeans
user, mostly the
mobile part. And when in Brazil, you need to drink coffee and that's
what he offered! And finally met Mauricio Leal
(SDN Program
Manager for Latin America) who is coordinating my visits. I've
been talking to Mauricio for past few days and it was great to meet him
in person.
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Back
to the JUG, I presented on "GlassFish: The Best Open Source
Application Server" and the slides are available here. Do you know Brazilian government mandates usage of only open-source software ? GlassFish is an 100% open-source and commercially supported enterprise Application Server. So drop a comment on this blog if you are aware of an opportunity for GlassFish. |
There were 130 attendees but strangely not even a single question. That's not the kind of audience I expected ;) But I don't feel completely disappointed because there were no questions during Mauricio's preso (who speaks local language) and other English-speaking presenters. The translators did a tremendous job by matching pace of all the presenters. Doris presented on Grizzly Comet and Simon on JavaFX.
A few more JUGs are scheduled so hopefully I'll see some interaction going. The true spirit was quite evident when tee-shirts and other goodies were thrown to the audience, always a hit! I was also truly impressed by the audience staying from 7-11pm, and that too without any food or drink ;-)
Check out some pictures:
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The evening ended with a late night dinner at Fogo de Chao. I was quite surprised that the dinner was still open at 11:15pm in the night, this is quite unlike San Francisco Bay Area where typically last dinner entry is taken at 9:30pm! The food was good and the highlight was luscious mango.
Drop a comment if you attended the talk and liked (or did not) it :)
Here is the complete album so far:
Friday August 22, 2008
GlassFish @ Berlin-Brandenburg JUG and TU Berlin
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I'll be providing an overview of GlassFish - engineering update on v2 and v3, adoption & success stories, and the vibrant community around it at a joint Berlin-Brandenburg JUG and TU-Berlin meet on Sep 3, 2008. |  |
The coordinates are:
Wednesday, September 3rd
17:30-ca. 19:30
Room FR5516, Technical University of Berlin
Franklinstrasse 28/29
10587 Berlin
The directions are available and please register here.
Thanks to Daniel Freund (Sun's Campus Ambassador in Berlin) & Ralph Bergman for coordinating this! And many thanks to ever-energetic and highly-connected Aaron Houston (JUG Program Coordinator) for initiating the link :)
And of course, I'll also be speaking at Rails Conf Europe 2008 on Rails Powered by GlassFish.
Anybody knows good running trails around Jolly Hotel ?
UPDATE: The venue has changed to a different room. The new room now is FR3003 in the same building.
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Friday July 18, 2008
GlassFish @ Utah JUG Summer 2008 - Trip Report
I presented on GlassFish at Utah
JUG yesterday, slides
are available. The topic provided insight into GlassFish v2,
the current production version, and GlassFish v3
- the upcoming modular, embeddable & extensible
version. The slides have data on leading adoption indicators on how
GlassFish momentum. There were close to 100 attendees and the list of
sponsors is certainly impressive ;-)
Here are the list of demos:
- GlassFish v2
- GlassFish v2 Web services Development & Deployment
- GlassFish on Eclipse Ganymede
- Getting Started with GlassFish in IntelliJ
- GlassFish v3
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As mentioned, the new functionality in GlassFish v3 is undergoing review. Please send us feedback on dev@glassfish and more details here.
After all day back-to-back meetings, it was good unwinding at a concert in the Salt Lake City Downtown park - thanks to Harold (actually his wife who pointed us to the concert :) Andrew Bird was performing there and enjoy a short clip of his performance:
It's always good to meet colleagues and old friends!
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Wednesday July 16, 2008
GlassFish @ Utah Java Users Group
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Will you be in Salt Lake City this Thursday evening and
would like to hear the latest about GlassFish ? I'll be presenting at Utah JUG. Here are
some of the topics I plan to discuss: |
Or anything GlassFish you like!
And there will be goodies too :) Make sure to RSVP for the event.
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Thursday June 19, 2008
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Sicilia
JUG took my email interview a few days ago and published it
on
their website. Read it here. Thanks to Mario Cartia! |
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Friday January 18, 2008
Travel Plans for Q1 2008 - Fairfax, Little Rock, Orlando, Hyderabad, New York, Las Vegas
Here are my tentative travel plans for the next 3 months:
| Event | Dates | Location |
| Partner Preso | Jan 23 | Fairfax, Virginia |
| Partner Preso | Jan 24 | Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Rails for All | Feb 8-9 | Orlando, Florida |
| Sun Tech Days | Feb 27-29 | Hyderabad, India |
| Ajax World | Mar 18-20 | New York |
| The Server Side Java Symposium | Mar 26-28 | Las Vegas |
Stop by and say hello if you are at any of the locations! Also, drop a comment or shoot me an email if you'd like me to talk to your local Java User Group about GlassFish provides an open-source, production-quality and Java EE 5 compatible Application Server. We can also drill down on Metro or jMaki with numerous working samples. If you host or attend a Ruby Meetup then we can also talk about JRuby on GlassFish.
Let me know if you'll be interested in running a few miles together :)
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