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IndicThreads Cloud Computing 2010 Trip Report

IndicThreads.com had their inaugural conference on Upcoming Technology on Aug 20/21 in the city of Pune, India. As the name says, the goal of this conference is...

IndicThreads.com had their inaugural conference on Upcoming Technology on Aug 20/21 in the city of Pune, India. As the name says, the goal of this conference is to talk about upcoming technologies and Cloud Computing was the chosen topic this time. Harshad & Sangeeta Oak - the driving forces behind Rightrix and this conference made it clear that this conference is not intended to be a training and the aim is to present the latest happening in the cloud world and get the...

Java EE 6 & GlassFish workshop delivered at San Francisco JUG - Slides & Demos available

Roberto and I delivered a 2-part Java EE 6 & GlassFish 3 workshop to a packed San Francisco JUG meetup last week. There were about 80 attendees on Day 1 and...

Roberto and I delivered a 2-part Java EE 6 & GlassFish 3 workshop to a packed San Francisco JUG meetup last week. There were about 80 attendees on Day 1 and about 40 on Day 2. Over approximately 7 hours, we gave a preview of Java EE 6, explained the key technologies introduced in the platform, and did lot of coding using NetBeans IDE.Roberto's slides are given below:Overview of Java EE 6 by Roberto Chinnici at SFJUGAnd my slides are next:JavaEE 6 and GlassFish v3 at SFJUGThe...

TOTD #143: Retrieve Twitter user timeline using using Jersey and OAuth

The Basic Authentication for authorizing with Twitter API will be turned off on Aug 16th. After that OAuth will be the only way to invoke the API.Beginner's...

The Basic Authentication for authorizing with Twitter API will be turned off on Aug 16th. After that OAuth will be the only way to invoke the API.Beginner's guide to OAuth provide an excellent explanation to OAuth. The typical analogy for OAuth is a "valet key" to the car which is a stripped down version of your regular key. These keys are meant for valet drivers who don't need to open trunk or glove compartment and don't need to drive the car for longer distance. So even...

Screencast #31: Java EE 6 using GlassFish and Eclipse 3.6 - Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11.1.1.6 is now available - 5 new screencasts

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11.1.1.6 is now available - download here.This is a set of plugins for Eclipse 3.6 that provide support for Oracle Coherence,...

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11.1.1.6 is now available - download here.This is a set of plugins for Eclipse 3.6 that provide support for Oracle Coherence, Weblogic Scripting Tool (WLST), WebLogic server JDBC deployment descriptor and Web services annotation editor, and now Java EE 6 & GlassFish as well!The plugins can also be downloaded from Eclipse Marketplace.This video tutorial shows:Getting started with GlassFish in OEPEA simple Java EE 6 application (JSP, Servlets,...

Dallas Tech Fest 2010 Trip Report

Oracle was a gold sponsor of Dallas Tech Fest 2010 - 9 parallel tracks and 5 sessions/track.I gave a 3-hour hands-on workshop on Java EE 6, GlassFish, and...

Oracle was a gold sponsor of Dallas Tech Fest 2010 - 9 parallel tracks and 5 sessions/track.I gave a 3-hour hands-on workshop on Java EE 6, GlassFish, and NetBeans. The room was packed during the first part (about 60 or so) and most of the audience retained for second part. The workshop explained several advantages of Java EE 6 such as simplicity, ease-of-use, and richness of the platform. These concepts were demonstrated using multiple coding sessions involving several...

San Francisco 1/2 Marathon - 2010 Results

I ran San Francisco 1/2 marathon over the weekend and improved my timing from last year by 3 minutes. I guess dance at a pre-wedding ceremony and 4 hours of...

I ran San Francisco 1/2 marathon over the weekend and improved my timing from last year by 3 minutes. I guess dance at a pre-wedding ceremony and 4 hours of sleep the night before slowed me down otherwise could've pushed harder. Anyway the results are still encouraging and the bar is higher for the next time!This makes me among top 1.2 % runners overall, top 2.5% for "Men", and top 2.3% in "M 30-39" category. Here is the overall leader board:I'm about 20 minutes behind the...

QA#4: Java EE 6: Developers focus on business logic, Much lower TCO - by Johan Vos

Jigsaw puzzle, modular, standard, integrated specifications, simple, annotation-driven, standards compliance, vendor independence, and light-weight deployment...

Jigsaw puzzle, modular, standard, integrated specifications, simple, annotation-driven, standards compliance, vendor independence, and light-weight deployment are some of the benefits highlighted by the Java EE 6 community.In the Java EE 6 Feedback from Community series you can learn about how Java EE 6 is currently being used in production, development and deployment environments used within the community, and even feature requests for Java EE 7.This entry comes from Johan...

FISL 2010 Trip Report

4998 attendees registered and participated at the 11th edition of FISL - the biggest open source conference in Brazil. This was my second year at FISL. Even...

4998 attendees registered and participated at the 11th edition of FISL - the biggest open source conference in Brazil. This was my second year at FISL. Even though the attendance was slightly down from last year but there was no let down in the energy. With 13 parallel tracks and sessions running from 9am to 11pm, it can be absolutely overwhelming. However most of the sessions were in Portuguese (with no English translation) so I could not attend.I presented on the Java EE 6...

Screencast #30: Java EE 6 & GlassFish 3 using NetBeans 6.9 - 5 screencasts

This 5-part screencast shows how NetBeans 6.9 provides comprehensive tooling for Java EE 6 & GlassFish 3. The video tutorial starts with building a simple Java...

This 5-part screencast shows how NetBeans 6.9 provides comprehensive tooling for Java EE 6 & GlassFish 3. The video tutorial starts with building a simple Java EE 6 application and evolves to add features from several new technologies such as Java Persistence API 2, Java Server Faces 2, Contexts & Dependency Injection, and Java API for RESTful Web services from the platform. Specifically, the different parts show:How to create a simple Java EE 6 application using JSP,...