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Friday June 19, 2009 |
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NetBeans Platform Hands-on Lab at JavaOne 2009
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Hands on labs are always great at JavaOne. You aren't just listening to a presentation but you can try a technology on real machine. And there is plenty of people ready to help you with an advice when you got lost. You can imagine the session as a tutorial that you are doing with help of friend. We set up everything for you - documentation, environment,room, speakers and the proctors that wil help. You just sit down to a computer and get your hands dirty with the code 
This year Jiri Rechtacek and me prepared HOL about NetBeans Platform.
The HOL provides you a short overview of the most important NetBeans APIs. The scenario of the tutorial is pretty simple - transform an existing Swing application to application based on NetBeans Platform. At the end you'll find out that the application looks the same but it's much more easier to create it because you can just focus on the business logic. The other things that you usually have to bother with desktop application as windows management, modules management etc. have been solved by the NetBeans Platform.
The HOL will be available on the official JavaOne online pages soon. For those who would like to try it immediately you can download the ZIP that we provided to NetBeans Dream Team. Enjoy it!
I'd like to thank to the NetBeans Dream Team members that joined the HOL. These guys really helped to increase the HOL quality with their experience with the NetBeans Platform. Who could be better proctor than somebody who use the product in daily work and makes money from it. Great thanks go to Toni Epple, Sven Reimers , Florian Vogler, Wade Chandler and Rich Unger. Thank you, guys!
Geertjan and Tone had a similar technical session TS-3886 Porting an Application to the NetBeans Platform where they explained more reasons the NetBeans Platform and how it helps developers.
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( Jun 19 2009, 04:01:29 PM CEST )
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Wednesday June 17, 2009 |
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My notes for Ubuntu 9.04 64b
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TIP
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My hard drive crashed therefore I received a new one. It means reinstall the Ubuntu 9.04 again. This post shgould be gathering of the steps necessary for me to start work again.
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( Jun 17 2009, 12:49:50 PM CEST )
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Wednesday June 03, 2009 |
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[JavaOne 2009] Cloud/JUG leaders/JavaFx/Solaris party
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Monday. San Francisco. United States
After the busy long CommunityOne day there was an official "OpenSolaris and Sun Cloud" party in the Moscone. I didn't attend as there was a sitdown dinner "Pre-JavaOne JUG Social Event" with JUG leaders at Henry's Hunan Restaurant. Wow, we had so delicious food that Doris ordered for us. Full table of different dishes. And the restaurant was full of JUG leaders, NetBeans Dream team members etc.
We stopped in the Thirsty Bear to say hello to our friends from Java FX. It seems that there is a party in this small brewery every night. Even if there isn't party they have their own set of beers. As this party ended at 10 PM and somebody told us that there is another one in ROE bar next door we wanted to move there. There was OpenSolaris party in ROE but they didn't let us in because we were not on the list. RSVP next time  .
All the JUG leaders, NetBeans dream team continued to the well-know Irish pub Chieftain on 5th and Howard. Aaron Houston was buying pitchers for the folks. The NetBeans' DreamTeam guys agreed to come to the NetBeans Platform HOL and proctor it. Thanks guys.
That was a long nite. I've met some of the guys from NB DreamTeam that I knew from emails. But now I know even the faces! Wade Chandler, Sven Reimers, Toni Epple. And bunch of other folks that were hidden somewhere for a while - as Tim Boudreau And Brazilians and Dutchs are here
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( Jun 03 2009, 06:50:29 PM CEST )
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Tuesday June 02, 2009 |
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[CommunityOne2009] Our session - Test Your Product on Multiple Machines in Parallel with Hudson
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Me and Tomas Musil had a session at ComunityOne today. We named it "Test Your Product on Multiple Machines in Parallel with Hudson". The session went well however we finished a little bit earlier than we expected. On the other hand it gave us more time for questions and answers. And there were lot of questions.
This is my famous slide from the presentation. We forgot to ask James Gosling for a permission to use his "South Park"-like avatar however we hope that we'll forgive us. We met him today when he was taking a picture with his "comic's twin" on the wall. Bu t we were in rush because of our session starting in a few minutes (and nervous to talk to "father of java", of course )
I'll let you know when the presentation slides and the record of the speech will be available.
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( Jun 02 2009, 10:36:38 AM CEST )
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Monday June 01, 2009 |
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[Javaone 2009] Glassfish party after Unconference
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Sunday. San Francisco. United States
I decided that I won't blog about the sessions that I attended as everybody does. I'll blog about the parties. Let me explain why. The sessions, BOFs, HOLs are full of the technical information and news about bleeding edge technologies however you as the attendee are usually in passive role. You just listen to somebody talking. (And sometimes it's really boring). But at parties you are meeting the people. The people that are behind and around the technologies, people that develop it and use it. And you met them at a party when they are more relaxed. You can discuss whatever you want with them - either work topic or a generic one as weather. That's why I like these parties. And, of course, free beer, free food
After the GlassFish 2009 unconference there was a party in Thirst Bear. At the beginning it looked as gathering of old friends. So many well-known faces. And it happens often at JavaOne parties that you are meeting the people that you knew from previous J1s. Me and Tomas finally met Craig McClanahan who is one of the author of the REST API for Sun Cloud.
I really enjoyed the party with Glassfish folks. I wanted to ask Koshuke about his talk about Hudson and Cloud. However he was faster and asked me about the our session "Test Your Product on Multiple Machines in Parallel with Hudson". He was really interested in it. And then he convinced us that it would be worth to opensource it even if it's useful for testing of NetBeans IDE for now.
Are there any pictures from this party? I don't have a camera 
Do you know where to go for "after party"? - Chieftain Irish Pub at Howard and 5th.
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( Jun 01 2009, 11:40:26 PM CEST )
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Thursday May 28, 2009 |
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Some Fun in San Francisco
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We arrived to San Francisco yesterday. Fortunately we had the new package of mouth-screens from Japan. Extremely lovely 3D stuff. We had to wear it because of the swine flu. I didn't liked the mouth-screen too much. However you should see the faces of the other people at the airport. They probably thought that we are infected.
Then we decided to fight with the jetleg. And that's always problem after the long flights. There is only a few things that help. Margarita is one of then
Today we worked in Sun's offices in Menlo Park. MPK16. During a walk to lunch we found Fabi that tried to steal the Project BlackBox from the park inside the Sun's campus. What a crazy idea!
You are right. The true is that the picture is fake. We prepared it. However everything else is real - Fabi and Project BlackBox
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( May 28 2009, 01:44:09 AM CEST )
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Wednesday May 27, 2009 |
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C U @ J1 2009
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I arrived to Bay Area today afternoon to get rid off the jetleg before JavaOne. I'm really looking forward to the next week. I hope that it will be week for of great presentations, meetings and other technical entertainment. I'll speak (or at least appear) at following presentations:
I'd like to attend a few more sessions about interesting news of today. The best place to meet people are parties. Everybody is relaxing after the looong day. And you can chat about anything (be aware that some parties are at noisy places).
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( May 27 2009, 06:13:58 AM CEST )
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Sunday May 24, 2009 |
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jOpenSpace 2009
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OpenSpace is new format of conference or we should can it rather un-conference.
Last year I attended the first jOpenSpace conference organised by Srakyi and guys from Inmite. It was awesome experience. Last weekend I attended second year. The event happened in the same cottage "Jizerka" as the last year. It was weekend full of information about Java and technologies. There was also lot of fun etc.
Last year everybody took it too much seriously (it means we spent the whole weekend in room with beamer and talked about java) so I was little bit afraid that it could be the exact opposite way this year. I was really surprised. It seemed to me that organisers managed to find the right balance between the sessions and other relaxing activities. Breath taking was the set of lighting talks that followed the format "7 minutes is enough". Sometimes it was hard to explain the whole problem/solution/topic in 7 minutes. And because we had 2 rooms we split into two separated groups during the open space talks. Because we managed to keep all the talks in 7 minutes there was space for almost everybody to show something interesting about Java, programming or IT.
We relaxed in late evenings with beers however most of the discussions were about Java again. The most successful hands on lab from last year had to be repeated. IMO, everybody would agree that the "hands on wine" deserves to be repeated every year. And believe or not the location for next event should be a wine cellar (as the rumor sayz).
Jizerske mountains are nice place even if you got lost and have to cross Jizera river by foot. Fortunately, the river is born close to place were we took a "shortcut" and we were able to jump over it.
I definitely enjoyed the whole jOpenSpace again. I will not list the lighting talks and the openspace discussions here as you can find them on the conference pages - jOpenSpace.cz. The records from sessions will be published soon including audio and even video records!
My favourite talks and discussions were "Hands on wine", "Cloud Computing - next SOA?", "OpenSolaris - ssytem for operators", "What problems you should solve as first", "Scrum accessories", "PIM & google map" and definitely some others that I don't remember now
I'm looking forward for next year. I will pray to java gods to invite me again as the un-conference is per invitation only. OTOH, there was a short call for papers. Watch the java.cz around April next year. Maybe there will be again some call for papers and you will be able to attend third year of jOpenSpace. Or I have even better idea - organise another un-conference by yourself
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( May 24 2009, 10:54:12 PM CEST )
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Wednesday May 13, 2009 |
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My Presentations at CommunityOne/JavaOne 2009
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This is a follow up of my last post - Trip to JavaOne canceled. Fortunately, a miracle happened and my trip was renewed. The main reason is that my session "Test your product on multiple machines in parallel with Hudson" has been accepted for the CommunityOne event. Hurray!
See you in San Francisco.
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( May 13 2009, 04:56:40 PM CEST )
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Wednesday May 06, 2009 |
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Trip to JavaOne canceled
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Yesterday, they canceled my trip to JavaOne. I'm really angry. That should be the best JavaOne ever. 3 proposals accepted. I spent some nights preparing the Hands-on lab materials. I feel that the Cloud will kill me. Or at least it is making everything cloudy.
If you are going to J1 then say hello to Golden Gate for me. And enjoy the conference, of course. There is plenty of nice sessions, don't forget to visit some of the parties (Jboss, Glassfish, etc.), and there will be CommunityOne day on Monday again.
Looot of good stuff that I'll miss.
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( May 06 2009, 04:44:39 PM CEST )
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