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The following hand-out of free software stuff is CANCELLED due to illness:
September the 19th: Prelude to Software Freedom Day
Location: Get free stuff in the hallway in front of the cafeteria at Niels Bohrs Allé 1
Time: 11.45 - 12.15

You are encouraged to check out Software Freedom Day at http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ and wonder why the Danish government used 153 million DKK (2006) on licenses from one company [1], and how many money must be spend to pay other licenses where free alternatives are present.

Kind Regards
Sun Campus Ambassador
Martin Maersk-Moeller

[1] http://www.computerworld.dk/art/43853

 

Here is the info on the events in September hosted by your local Sun Campus Ambassador. Drop me an email of what you plan to attend - this will help me buy the right amount of refreshments and get seats for everyone :)

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Get free stuff Friday the 19th of September 2008 11.45-12.15! Come and hear a bit about Software Freedom Day 2008 which is celebrated on the 20th of September, and try out some software developed by Sun Microsystems and others. This Friday’s hand-out session is a prelude for Software Freedom Day (Saturday the 20/9)...


Time: September 19, 2008 at 11:45pm
Location: In the hallway in front of the cafeteria at Niels Bohrs Alle 1 (SDU Technical Faculty), Odense.
Street: Niels Bohrs Allé 1
City/Town: Odense
Website or Map: here

The NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta is out now, and it seems like the NetBeans developers have been very busy. In general there are big improvements on NB start-up time (shorter start-up = always nice), there is faster and smarter code completion and a reduction in the memory consumption.

 

JavaScript has been supported even better; with semantic highlighting, code completion, type analysis, quick fixes, semantic checks, and support for refactoring - that GREAT news for every JavaScript programmer as we all know how error prone JavaScripts can be.

Better or added support for the following technologies is also included:
-Spring Framework Support
-MySQL
-Ruby/JRubys
-Java Beans
See more here

"Linux is less costly than Solaris" - is that a myth?

"Sun's web solutions are proprietary" - is that a myth?

Help bust a myth and win gift certificates for 250$! You will compete with full-time Sun Employees...up for a challenge? Then join the competition at the Myth Busting Challenge!

I was so lucky to get a free entrance pass to the Embedded World 2008 in Nuremberg (Germany) and was because of my work as Sun Campus Ambassador of cause looking for Sun Microsystems colleagues and new upcoming technologies from Sun Microsystems. To my surprise I had a really hard time finding anyone who had anything to do with Sun Technologies...I was wondering - why are we not represented when companies like AMD, Intel, Microsoft and the like are represented with big impressive stands? Intel had a cool motorbike controlled by their technologies and Microsoft were there to promote their embedded versions of XP and upcoming Vista embedded (don't know if it’s really embedded as the footprint is around 400 Megs). Lots of representatives for Linux dists where also there, but where was Sun...And where were the Sun Spots?

 

I went through the list of exhibitors, and finally found something - it was /k/ Embedded Java Solutions , which is a small company situated in Belgium and focusses on development of Java VMs for embedded CPUs e.g. ARM7TDMI, ARM9, MIPS, PowerPC, x86. The footprint for their VM implementation without AWT is <2MB and including AWT approx. 2.5 MB, crazy, huh?! ...was missing the sun a bit... :)

Hi everyone. I just want to draw your attention to the Sun Microsystems Student Developers Site - there is competitions, presentations of new hot technologies, open-source communities, and job opportunities there. Get ready to innovate, enhance your skills and create the applications of the future…

Tech talks are currently being planned. The first presentation(s) will lead up to the Danish summer holiday and will hopefully inspire the attendants to play with technology during the rainy or sunny Danish summer :) The idea so far is to focus the talk(s) on Java(tm) technologies. The tech talk(s) in the beginning of the new semester will focus on prepping the students/attendants to adopt free open source technologies and motivate them to program - might be combined with a NetBeans IDE Java(tm) ME game developer intro :) Ideas, suggestions and thoughts are welcomed...

Finally I've created my blog. Here I will announce new Sun tech talks at Syddansk Universitet (SDU) and relevant information regarding these talks and other Sun events. Welcome to my blog!