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Heading For The LightPosted by editor on January 9, 2008 at 6:27 AM PST
CodeMash and Sun Tech Days Atlanta begin New year, new conference schedule. On this first full week of 2008, the first two events on the java.net calendar are underway. Up in Sandusky, Ohio, it's CodeMash, a novel conference that seeks to bring together top people of different stripes -- Java, .NET, PHP, etc. -- and get them to share ideas, experiences, and opinions. Among their Java presentations are sessions on JVM scripting languages, Groovy, and the Java Posse's Dick Wall speaking on Android and Guice. Down here in Atlanta, we've got the latest round of the Sun Tech Days, which I need to head out to in about 40 minutes, as I'm scheduled to do coffee with java.net blogger Marina Sum at 10:30. Fortunately, the event is just 10 miles down the freeway at the Cobb Galleria, which will be a little odd for me, because I usually only go to this convention center once a year, for Anime Weekend Atlanta. I have to expect that Sun Tech Days will involve a lot fewer people dressed as Naruto or Aerith, but you never know... after all, the latter did inspire the name of the aerith photo mashup project on java.net. The Java development track looks to have a number of good sessions, covering Java SE 7, OpenJDK, the consumer JRE, JavaFX Script, and an extreme GUI makeover for the phone. And that's just on the client/user-facing side. The server-side attendees will enjoy talks on JSF, GlassFish, Project Metro, and more. Should be a good couple of days. If you're a Java developer in this part of the U.S., I hope I'll see you there today or tomorrow. Stop by, say hi, and let me record you for our upcoming podcasts. Marina Sum blogged about Sun Tech Days before heading east yesterday, and we link to her blog in today's Weblogs section. She says When an Assignment is Fun... "it's not work at all. But I should qualify that: It's not grunt work but fulfilling and satisfying work instead. That's what Tech Days Atlanta (January 9-10) is shaping up to be like for me." Continuing the follow-up to Bruce Eckel's blog about Java evolution, Cay Horstmann asserts that Dinosaurs Can Take the Pain. "There has been much discussion on whether Java programmers are becoming dinosaurs, on an evolutionary dead end and overtaken by more nimble mammals. . What is a Java programmer to do? In this blog, I argue that we need to focus on less on syntax and more on the pain points of Java programming." Finally, Lucas Torri shows off Adding a Humidity Sensor to Sun SPOT. "Last month I got a Sun SPOT from a friend that came back from US and I can say that the kit is very cool and easy to use. Now, in my way to learn more about it I decided to add a Humidity Sensor to the board." In Java Today, Hans Muller has posted an extensive Introduction to the Scene Graph project, also known as "Scenario", which provides the graphical runtime for Java FX Script. Along with discussing the project's goals and status, he also takes a look at Scene Graph's APIs. " For now, what I'd like to do is to provide an introduction to the new Java APIs and just one demo. The team has written a whole raft of demos and we'll be opening up a subproject before too long, that contains the entire demo catalog." A new SDN article, GlassFish v2: Open for Business makes the business case for adopting GlassFish: "characteristics such as high availability, scalability, enterprise-grade performance, centralized administration, easy one-step configuration, and efficient and reliable message delivery make GlassFish v2 an enterprise-quality application server with the robustness to handle the demands of production environments and the reliability to handle business-critical applications." A recent DevX article by Steven Hale argues that Small Steps Lead to Big Improvements in Java Code Quality. "Rather than setting arbitrary targets, I chose the strategy of incremental improvement. To successfully execute this strategy, each build must have equal or better coverage than the previous successful build. By taking many small steps I hoped to achieve a giant leap in quality. This article describes how you can implement the incremental improvement strategy in your code coverage using Cobertura and Apache Ant.
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