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A very smart comment by JavaLobby played with words and called "the IDEs of March" (*) the event that saw two italian JUGs to organize a new edition of the IDE shootout initiated by JUG Cologne. Now that the event is over, I can say that it has been a success: 200 persons could enjoy Roman Strobl (Sun Microsystems), Paolo Ramasso (Oracle) and Vaclav Pech (JetBrains) demonstrating the virtues of their products. A special thanks to our guests that made the event possible (too bad for the problems that prevented an Eclipse speaker to come). We know that attendees really enjoyed the event, so I can only recommend other JUG leaders in the world to repeat it in their home countries.

My congratulations to JUG Genova and JUG Roma, especially to the former since they resumed the activities just one year ago, after a period of stall. Here are some photos of the event (and - as some photos demonstrate - in the better italian tradition the thing ended up in with a great dinner!). All the official photos are available on http://www.ideday.org/index.php/Site/Photos.

(*) "The Ides of March is the name of the date 15 March in the Roman calendar. The term ides was used for the 15th day of the months of March, May, July, and October, and the 13th day of the other eight months. In modern times, the term Ides of March (Latin: Idus Martiae) is best known as the date that Julius Caesar was assassinated, in 44 BC, the story of which was famously retold in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar.

Two meetings in a month at JUG Milano
Posted by fabriziogiudici on January 07, 2007 at 07:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

*** edited to add: please be aware that Jan 11 meeting has been cancelled ***

January 2007 is a special month at JUG Milano: we will have two guests in a week, and two very important guests: Dennis Reedy and Jonas Boner. Filippo Diotalevi just confirmed the two meetings:

On January 11, Dennis Reedy will present "Dynamic Services: Architecting for change". A quick introduction about the talk: "Developing applications which can be used in a dynamic environment presents challenges in the areas of scalability and handling growth. The presentation will review distributed architecture patterns and the inherent challenges of creating a dynamic service oriented architecture, as well as introduce Space Based Architecture principles built on a policy based infrastructure.". Dennis is VP Advanced Technology at GigaSpaces Technologies and he is the creator of the Rio framework.
On January 18, Jonas Bonér will present "Distributed Computing Made Easy: How To Build a POJO-based Data Grid". About the talk: "It is a very practical, "hands-on" session in which we will present how to build the Master/Worker pattern using standard JDK 1.5, and how to turn it into a distributed grid implementation by using Open Terracotta's* JVM-level clustering technology.". Jonas is a Senior Software Engineer at Terracotta, the founder of the AspectWerkz AOP framework and commiter of the AspectJ project.

Please look at the JUG Milano website for further information.

Yes, I know, two meetings in eight days can be a problem, but the talks are so interesting and the hosts so authoritative that I bet that guys around Milan will attend in a large number. ;-)

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