James Gosling is working now for Google.

Posted at 12:34AM Apr 01, 2011 by Adam Bien in Fun |  Comments[7]  | Views/Hits: 3317

It seems like James Gosling also values short deployments and pragmatic hacking.

Posted at 05:41PM Mar 03, 2011 by Adam Bien in Fun |  Comments[1]  | Views/Hits: 4947

At the TheServerSide Java Symposium I will give two sessions: "Lightweight Application Development with Java EE 6" and "Java EE 6 Patterns and Best Practices". In the first session I plan to implement a Java EE 6 application on stage (live and unprepared :-)) to give you a feeling about Java EE 6 and in the second discuss Java EE (Anti) Patterns with "real world" code.
Feedback / discussion are highly appreciated, before, during (the best choice :-)), between or after the sessions.

Posted at 11:56AM Feb 17, 2011 by Adam Bien in Fun |  Comments[6]  | Views/Hits: 4550

Some developers believe that Chuck Norris is the best Java programmer. This is nothing but a myth. For instance the statement:
Chuck Norris doesn’t need unit tests because his code always work. ALWAYS.[from geekstogo.com]
is absolutely irrelevant, knowing that Bruce Lee practiced Deployment Driven Development (DDD) for years, even before the advent of Java. He deployed the application first, then wrote the test and eventually the bullet proof code... The deployment was always successful and the green-bar never red.

Posted at 02:24PM Feb 12, 2011 by Adam Bien in Fun |  Comments[2]  | Views/Hits: 5017

Cray Supercomputers look really nice - but are a bit oversized for an average Java developer :-).
The slogan: "Supercomputing Solutions for Everyone" is somehow appropriate - Cray workstations are available as well .

Posted at 04:06PM Feb 03, 2011 by Adam Bien in Fun |  Comments[6]  | Views/Hits: 3939

I will give a free Java EE 6 "Hacking" Session at 25. January 2011 for . Because of lack of time to create slides, I will spend the entire time in the IDE building a random application with NetBeans 7 / Glassfish 3.1 and JBoss 6 (in parallel). Initially the session was planned as a parallel hacking Spring + Java EE 6 session (with fun factor), but the Spring guys rejected the invitation.

Posted at 04:16PM Jan 05, 2011 by Adam Bien in Fun |  Comments[9]  | Views/Hits: 4922

Got a nice ecard from Oracle - with Duke, ExaLogic and Linux Penguin

Posted at 03:21AM Jan 03, 2011 by Adam Bien in Fun |  Comments[0]  | Views/Hits: 2809

...and it runs even on the Mac inside a browser http://www.minecraft.net/play.jsp. It is documented in MinPedia. There is even a working 16-bit computer built inside Minecraft. Is it the visual future of cloud computing? :-)

Posted at 12:42PM Oct 31, 2010 by Adam Bien in Fun |  Comments[4]  | Views/Hits: 7152

[This post is obsolete. See JDK 1.7 Mac OS X Developer Preview Download And Smoke Test]

Posted at 07:53PM Oct 25, 2010 by Adam Bien in Fun |  Comments[28]  | Views/Hits: 28260

The first OSGi book Programming Open Service Gateways with Java Embedded Server(TM) Technology was written in year 2000, the second edition in 2001. The book was written / sponsored by ...Sun Microsystems. At that time there was also a commercial OSGi server available (Sun again): Java Embedded Server (JES) - I almost used JES in an embedded Java project. JES worked really well, but was discontinued. ...a few years before the OSGi hype...

[I even found this book on my bookshelf - didn't actually noticed that it is so old...]

Posted at 01:11PM Oct 16, 2010 by Adam Bien in Fun |  Comments[2]  | Views/Hits: 3731

James Gosling is working now for Google.

Posted at 12:34AM Apr 01, 2011 by Adam Bien in Fun |  Comments[7]  | Views/Hits: 3317

It seems like James Gosling also values short deployments and pragmatic hacking.

Posted at 05:41PM Mar 03, 2011 by Adam Bien in Fun |  Comments[1]  | Views/Hits: 4947

At the TheServerSide Java Symposium I will give two sessions: "Lightweight Application Development with Java EE 6" and "Java EE 6 Patterns and Best Practices". In the first session I plan to implement a Java EE 6 application on stage (live and unprepared :-)) to give you a feeling about Java EE 6 and in the second discuss Java EE (Anti) Patterns with "real world" code.
Feedback / discussion are highly appreciated, before, during (the best choice :-)), between or after the sessions.

Posted at 11:56AM Feb 17, 2011 by Adam Bien in Fun |  Comments[6]  | Views/Hits: 4550

Some developers believe that Chuck Norris is the best Java programmer. This is nothing but a myth. For instance the statement:
Chuck Norris doesn’t need unit tests because his code always work. ALWAYS.[from geekstogo.com]
is absolutely irrelevant, knowing that Bruce Lee practiced Deployment Driven Development (DDD) for years, even before the advent of Java. He deployed the application first, then wrote the test and eventually the bullet proof code... The deployment was always successful and the green-bar never red.

Posted at 02:24PM Feb 12, 2011 by Adam Bien in Fun |  Comments[2]  | Views/Hits: 5017

Cray Supercomputers look really nice - but are a bit oversized for an average Java developer :-).
The slogan: "Supercomputing Solutions for Everyone" is somehow appropriate - Cray workstations are available as well .

Posted at 04:06PM Feb 03, 2011 by Adam Bien in Fun |  Comments[6]  | Views/Hits: 3939

I will give a free Java EE 6 "Hacking" Session at 25. January 2011 for . Because of lack of time to create slides, I will spend the entire time in the IDE building a random application with NetBeans 7 / Glassfish 3.1 and JBoss 6 (in parallel). Initially the session was planned as a parallel hacking Spring + Java EE 6 session (with fun factor), but the Spring guys rejected the invitation.

Posted at 04:16PM Jan 05, 2011 by Adam Bien in Fun |  Comments[9]  | Views/Hits: 4922

Got a nice ecard from Oracle - with Duke, ExaLogic and Linux Penguin

Posted at 03:21AM Jan 03, 2011 by Adam Bien in Fun |  Comments[0]  | Views/Hits: 2809

...and it runs even on the Mac inside a browser http://www.minecraft.net/play.jsp. It is documented in MinPedia. There is even a working 16-bit computer built inside Minecraft. Is it the visual future of cloud computing? :-)

Posted at 12:42PM Oct 31, 2010 by Adam Bien in Fun |  Comments[4]  | Views/Hits: 7152

[This post is obsolete. See JDK 1.7 Mac OS X Developer Preview Download And Smoke Test]

Posted at 07:53PM Oct 25, 2010 by Adam Bien in Fun |  Comments[28]  | Views/Hits: 28260

The first OSGi book Programming Open Service Gateways with Java Embedded Server(TM) Technology was written in year 2000, the second edition in 2001. The book was written / sponsored by ...Sun Microsystems. At that time there was also a commercial OSGi server available (Sun again): Java Embedded Server (JES) - I almost used JES in an embedded Java project. JES worked really well, but was discontinued. ...a few years before the OSGi hype...

[I even found this book on my bookshelf - didn't actually noticed that it is so old...]

Posted at 01:11PM Oct 16, 2010 by Adam Bien in Fun |  Comments[2]  | Views/Hits: 3731