Neděle srpen 05, 2007

Czech Republic Youth Programmers Championship 2007

Czech youth programmers met in Janske Lazne in Krkonose Mountains during the last weekend of June, and they competed who is better programmer. It was 21st year of this championship and second when Sun was one of sponsors (thanks to Pavel Suk). The task was to create easy music score viewer/editor which shows music score loaded from XML file. The task was relatively easy, but four hours limit for solving the problem is not many. The competition has been divided into two categories based on the competitors age. First category is up to fifteen and second category is up to nineteen.
	Sun also prepared some presentation about its own technologies. Martin Ryzl presented Mobile Java solution. He described what ME Java is what is different from standard Java and how to write application for cell phones. He used Netbeans and its mobility pack to demonstrate examples.
Jakub Jermar presented basic concepts of operating systems and these concepts described on Solaris implementation. I was surprised how many people were interested in this theme. Jakub had to answer a lot of questions and some youth were interested in short mdb presentation.
	Each year is difficult to determine first three/four positions in each category. Jury must examine each detail and they must make a decision which solution is better. It is not an easy and often causes hot discussion. Fortunately, jury always makes a decision and the championship is successfully finished. I'm looking forward to the next year and I hope Sun will be there again.

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Sobota květen 26, 2007

Ottawa Senators ... Lets go

This week I was on PGCon 2007. The conference was located in Ottawa, capital city of Canada. I arrived on Saturday in time when Senators wons its NHL conference. A lot of people celebrated this occasions and lot of cars with the Senators flag run around. During my trip from the airport to University of Ottawa campus I saw of a lot of trees and green areas in the city. The conference started on Monday and I made a decision to visit city down town. University campus is located very close and it takes fifteen, twenty minutes by walk.

Whau... I crossed a bridge over Rideau Canal and first Gothic building appeared. What Gothic building does in Canada? How I read a later it is Victorian Gothic style and it was very popular during 19th century when also Canadian cities growing up and these buildings still stays there ... wonderful, because in many cities in US and Canada old downtown was destroyed and ugly skyscrapers replaced them.

I passed City Hall (It is a modern nice building) and after ten minutes I reached Parliament Hill. It is really beautiful place - Parliament, Peace Tower, Library ... There is also nice view on Ottawa river and Civilization museum building on other side. I strongly recommended to visit this place. Ottawa is nice, quite and clean city. And I hope Ottawa Senators wins Stanley Cup this year.