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Petar Tahchiev is a software engineer from Bulgaria, mainly woking with project automation tools like Ant, Maven(1x, 2x). He is also interested in web programming with JSP, Servlets, Struts framework, JSTL, and related technologies. He graduated Mathematician from the Sofia University, where now he leads number of different seminars, like Linear Algebra, Mathematical Analysis, Introduction To Java Programming. He has also authored articles about java programing and project automation, and is a constant lecturer at some of the biggest open-source conferences in Bulgaria.

JavaONE So Far

as most of the people blogging on java.net, I am also going to dedicate my blog entry to the JavaONE conference. This year, is my first year on the conference, and I really have to say that it is impressively big. No wait, of course it's not big, it's HUGE. So I am not going to give you the statistical data that most of you have heard already, but instead I will tell you that I have been to a lot of conferences out there and so far JavaONE seems to be the biggest one. Apart from the technical talks (from which I had the time to track just 3), the conference gives you a really big opportunity to meet with people you have been communicating only over the Email.

The first day was the day after I arrived. It was CommunityONE and I had to be there to talk about JUGs and communities. Me and a couple of other JUG leaders had this talk so that we can help and facilitate people that want to start a new JUG. In my opinion the talk went pretty well - thanks to Van who had taken care of all the details and who pushed us all. Thanks Van :-).

The second and the third day were pretty much hanging with the the java.net guys and with the other JUG leaders. I also visited the pavilion and met some old friends - Vincent Massol, Gael Blondelle and some new friends I was anticipated to meet - Ivelin Ivanov, Vladimir Ralev and Jean Deruelle - all from the Mobicents team.

The one thing that I will remember JavaONE with was the first and only meeting of the Jakarta Cactus team(me, Felipe Leme and Vincent Massol). The Sunday when I arrived, the first thing I did was to check-in the hotel and call Felipe to meet him. And the next day we made an arangement to meet with the Vincent Massol, who started the project exactly 10-years ago. Since then this is the first time we all meet. It was really amazing:

ApacheCON in Amsterdam Is Over :-(

Hi guys,

the last five days I have been in Amsterdam to attend the ApacheCON there. The conference this year, as always, was really amazing. The presentations I attended were absolutely on the top-level. I had the chance to meet some of the biggest names in the open-source world and discuss with them on different topics: Chris DiBona, Greg Stein, Bruce Snyder, Erik Hatcher, Paul Holland, Steve Loughran and lots of others. This is a chance I have never had - I and I have attended lots of other conferences. It is absolutely amazing how the members of the ASF are close to each other - it is really like a family. :-)

I attended the conference this year with a whole other bunch of colleagues from HP - we were a gold sponsor of the event, so we had to take care of the booth. So here is the time and place to give a big "Thank you, guys" to Paul Holland and Scott Lamons who made my attendance possible.

Another thing that was really important for me in the conference was my talk about the new release of Cactus. Yes, that is correct - I finally made the release of 1.8.0, and right now I am working with on the 1.8.1 version. I gave a bird-of-feather talk, including all the new stuff that are in the new release. So in case you missed my talk you can get Cactus from here and give it a try. I will be waiting for your feedback.

June 2008

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