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Arun Gupta is a Technology Evangelist for Web Services and Web 2.0 Apps at Sun. He was the spec lead for APIs in the Java platform, committer in multiple Open Source projects, participated in standard bodies and contributed to Java EE and SE releases.
Friday October 10, 2008
LOTD #10: Running GlassFish on Joyent Accelerator
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Joyent provides a cloud computing environment for all your needs. |
Beyond their typical reasons (scale on demand, pay for what you use, PHP/Rails/Python/Java pre-installed and ready to go, billions of page views and others), now there is another reason to use their cloud.
The instructions to configure GlassFish on Joyent cloud are really clean and simple. Check them out here!
Do you know that Rails applications can be deployed (without any packaging) on GlassFish v3 ? Check out more details here.
All previous entries in this series are archived at LOTD.
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Friday October 03, 2008
Hilton Morumbi Sao Paolo - Thumbs Up!
I stayed at Hilton
Morumbi during Sun
Tech Days 2008 Sao Paolo. It's a great hotel located in the
financial district of city. And certainly it was a pleasure that hotel
staff could speak really good English. I realized the importance more
after traveling to Brasilia and Vitoria :)
Here are some pictures of room and view from the 18th floor:
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And the dinner ...
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Located right across X-shaped bridge:
And then a view of the bridge from 28th floor (with great fitness center):
Certainly a great hotel to stay again!
But unlike other hotels in Brazil, they charged exorbitantly for Internet access.
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Wednesday October 01, 2008
Talent Show @ Sun Tech Days 2008, Sao Paolo
Sun
Tech Days gives you the opportunity to learn about different
Sun technologies. But it also gives you a chance to demonstrate your
soft skills in a Talent show. See what participants showed on Day 2 of Sao Paolo Tech Days
2008.
Watch all the way to end for a typical Brazilian ending :)
View similar shows at Hyderabad
2008 and Beijing
2007.
Here are some pictures from Day 2:
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And the evolving (1 more day remaining) album at:
Tuesday September 30, 2008
Sao Paolo - I shoot you, you shoot me
The picture was taken at Sun Tech Days in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
Any guess who's behind the camera ?
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Sun Tech Days 2008, Sao Paolo - Day 1
Sun
Tech Days kick started yesterday in the beautiful city of Sao Paolo,
Brazil. Over 1000 attendees, completely charged, willing to
discuss their issues, amazing amount of energy and all there to learn
about different Sun
technologies - just a superb recipe to succeed and outpace everybody
else in the world!
The GlassFish
session was packed with 400 attendees and there were attendees all over
the floor :) The slides are available here.
The demos showed during the talk are listed as blog URLs in the slides.
Drop a comment if you attended the talk, are currently using GlassFish
for development or production or would like to know more about it.
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The winners of Open Source Community Awards (sponsored by Sun) were announced at the keynote. And I'm very excited to announce the two GlassFish Award Program (GAP) winners were present to receive in person. Congratulations to all the winners, very well deserved!
Reginaldo Russinholi won an award for "Translation of Hudson project to Brazilian Portuguese". More details can be found in the submission.
And Claudio Miranda won an award for "Provide CLI/GUI support to add/modify/remove certificates to JKS". More details can be found at in the submission and bug #4524.
And then all the winners together:
And here are some pictures from the evening reception:
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The evening concluded with a wonderful dinner at Praca Sao Lourenco (Vila Olimpia) with Bruno, Claudio and Mauricio:
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It is a great restaurant with wilderness ambience, and as always, great hospitality. If you are in the city of Sao Paolo, this is another great place to go!
And the evolving (2 more days remaining) album at:
Monday September 29, 2008
Embu das Artes - Sao Paulo spectacle
Embu das Artes
is a small and spectacular village in Sao
Paulo Metropolitan area. If you want to experience Brazil,
this is the place! A perfect blend of arts, crafts, food, clothes,
furniture, festivities and lot of fun. Check out some pictures:
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Check out GlassFish in Embu das Artes:
And some local music:
And the evolving (3 more days) album at:
- Brazilians are very warm people. Men will typically shake hands and pat on your shoulder. Women may kiss one (or both) cheeks upon meeting/departing so be ready to reciprocate.
- Brazil is a paradise for meat lovers. Most restaurants do not offer much (sometimes none) vegetarian choices. But they do offer some exotic fruits and vegetables, so you can certainly stay healthy!
- Some handy Portugese phrase
Hello Alo / Oi Good morning Bom dia Good afternoon Boa tarde Good night Boa noite Thanks Obrigado for men, Obrigada for women No Thanks Nao Obrigado Excuse me Com licenca Please to meet you prazer Goodbye tchau (pronounced as ciao) Please por favor
Check out English-Portugese phrases or a searchable dictionary.
- For Brazilians who claim to know some English, speak slowly and clearly with simple words.
- People are very friendly and very much willing to help but language may be a barrier. Carry your hotel address on a paper as local public mostly speak Portugese. And smile is of course the universal human language.
- Withdraw money from the bank at airport. The ATM machines in the city are sparse and sometimes may not accept your ATM card.
- Don't miss 4 things: eating @ Churrascaria, drinking coffee, Caipirinha and Guarana.
- Hotels have free Internet and breakfast, really cool!
- If you are visiting a JUG event, make sure to carry freebies.
- Restaurants are open late (read very late or early morning) nights, even on weekdays. For example, we walked into a restaurant at 11:30pm for dinner on a Tuesday night and were not rushed.
- Most restaurants in food court offer food by weight.
- Offices have a 2 hour lunch time (typically 12-2), wow!
- TAM (local airlines) is Star Alliance member, so don't forget to get credits for United Miles and use benefits accordingly.
- The seasons in Brazil are completely opposite of those in
Northern Hemisphere (which consists of 90% human population).
Norther Hemisphere Brazil Summer Winter Fall Spring Winter Summer Spring Fall - VISA is much more popular in Brazil than American Express. And cash works everywhere!
- Football (futebol) is not only a national sport, it's a complete passion here. Brazilians have won the FIFA world cup 5 times and very proud of it. So be aware of some of the popular players: Rivaldo, Roberto, Ronaldo, Rinaldinho, Kaka, Cafu.
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Sunday September 28, 2008
Espirito Santo - I shoot you, You shoot me
The picture was taken during ESJUG
meeting in Espirito Santo, Brazil.
Any guess who's behind the camera ?
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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:
Saturday September 27, 2008
Running on Praia da Costa, Espirito Santo in Brazil
Praia
da Costa
is a beautiful tropical beach located in the city of Vila Velha,
state of
Espirito
Santo in Brazil. I had a great 55 minues run this
afternoon on the beach:
It felt really nice running on the beautiful sand. On a Saturday
afternoon, the beach was loaded with volleyball and
futebol players. And I even saw American football too :)
Check out a video of some locals playing futebol:
Here are some pictures:
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The complete album is available here:
LOTD #9: Advantages of JRuby over MRI
Andreas blogged about why he likes
JRuby even though he dislikes Java.
JRuby is "It's just
Ruby" with more than 50,000 tests to ensure MRI compliance. The blog
highlights that there is no need to know Java, at all, to run JRuby.
Here are
some advantages that are described in the blog:
- JVM runtime optimization
- Efficient memory usage
- Native threads to spread work on multiple cores
- Great garbage collection to make memory usage more efficient
- JIT and AOT compilation
- Inegration with Java libraries
- Running Rails applications on existing Java application servers
- Documentation and specs
Do you know Rails applications can be deployed (without any packaging) on GlassFish v3 ? Check out more details here.
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Friday September 26, 2008
4 things not to miss in Brazil
# 1: Churrascaria
(yeah, they serve more than Steak). Had dinner at Porcao and it was
fantastico! Check out how steak churrascaria is prepared @ Porcao:
And you can visit kitchen in any Brazilian restuarant, check me and
Simon inside Porcao's kitchen:
Wonderful food, great hospitality, a great choice not to be missed
during your stay in Brasilia! More pictures here.
# 2: Guarana:
a local Soda (kinda like Root Beer)
# 3: Brazilian coffee, Brazilian style
# 4: Brazil's national drink Caipirinha.
Learn a crash course (recorded
at Porcao):
The list might evolve over next few days :)
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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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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:
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