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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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