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Uber Conf 2010 - Day 3 Report

Day 3 of Uber Conf 2010 (Day 2 and 1), again, started with a great run with fellow attendees - 10 miles in 1:15:22 with an average pace of 7:28 minutes/mile....

Day 3 of Uber Conf 2010 (Day 2 and 1), again, started with a great run with fellow attendees - 10 miles in 1:15:22 with an average pace of 7:28 minutes/mile. Here is the speed-vs-elevation chart:And complete details about the run are available below:After a mentally and physically exhausting day, lets see how many runners show up for the run tomorrow morning. I'll try to be outside the lobby by around 6:30 am-ish.Attended a 3 hour Scala for Java Programmers Workshop by Venkat...

Uber Conf 2010 - Notes from Scala for Java Programmers Workshop

I spent the first half of Day 3 of Uber Conf 2010 (Day 2 and 1) in Scala for Java Programmers workshop by Venkat, took extensive notes, and noted/tried pretty...

I spent the first half of Day 3 of Uber Conf 2010 (Day 2 and 1) in Scala for Java Programmers workshop by Venkat, took extensive notes, and noted/tried pretty much all the code samples.<warning>This is a code intensive and slightly long entry.</warning>A more complete entry covering other events of Day 3 will come later today.Lets go down the rabbit hole!Why Scala ? - Scala is highly concise, expressive, nice support for XML processing, pattern matching, inherent support for...

Über Conf Day 2 Trip Report

Day 2 of Über Conf (Day 1) started with about 30 runners heading out for a fun run. Some of us went farther than that and certainly felt the impact of running...

Day 2 of Über Conf (Day 1) started with about 30 runners heading out for a fun run. Some of us went farther than that and certainly felt the impact of running additional distance in this "mile high city". Here is a picture of some runners:Here are some more pictures from the run:Complete details about the run are below:Many thanks to Ben Ellingson for arranging this!The runners are meeting again outside the lobby at 7am. And if you are interested in a 10K+ run then I'll see...

Über Conf Day 1 Trip Report

Jay Zimmerman kick started the 200th No Fluff Just Stuff event and Day 1 of Über Conf earlier today. This event is focused on alpha-geeks, with more access to...

Jay Zimmerman kick started the 200th No Fluff Just Stuff event and Day 1 of Über Conf earlier today. This event is focused on alpha-geeks, with more access to speakers, more hands-on workshops, longer hours, and attendees from 45 different states.Cliff Click gave a great keynote talking about Challenges and Directions in Java Virtual Machines. Here are some key points from his talk:Hardware, Operating Systems, and JVM are ready for concurrent processing; Tools, Languages,...

Jazoon 2010 Day 3 - Java EE 6 on Cloud, HTML 5 with JSF 2 and another run on Üetliberg

The Day 3 of Jazoon (Day 1 & 2) started with a great presentation on Gaia satellite and Data Processing by William O'Mullane. Gaia is a European Space Agency...

The Day 3 of Jazoon (Day 1 & 2) started with a great presentation on Gaia satellite and Data Processing by William O'Mullane. Gaia is a European Space Agency space mission that will be launched in Summer of 2012 to compile a catalog of approximately 1 billion stars. Most of their software is Java-based and have been fairly happy with the decision taken 10 years ago. They are very happy with the performance of Java and in certain cases its even 10x faster than C.I gave a talk...

TOTD #140: Moving GlassFish Installation - Referenced file does not exist "osgi-main.jar"

This is a quick Tip Of The Day (TOTD) to show how to get GlassFish running again if the directory is moved to a new location after it has been started once....

This is a quick Tip Of The Day (TOTD) to show how to get GlassFish running again if the directory is moved to a new location after it has been started once. Note, of course, you are not moving the directory while the server is running. Its only after the server has been started once at least and stopped. If you move your GlassFish installation to a different directory then you may see errors like: ERROR: Error creating archive. (java.io.IOException: Referenced file does not...

Üetliberg - Great uphill run at Jazoon 2010 Day 2

Three of us (2 ex-Ironman and me) ran to the top of Üetliberg (a mountain on the Swiss plateau) on the Day 2 of Jazoon - a great uphill run. There were showers...

Three of us (2 ex-Ironman and me) ran to the top of Üetliberg (a mountain on the Swiss plateau) on the Day 2 of Jazoon - a great uphill run. There were showers + lockers right at the trailhead so that was extremely convenient. The first 3 miles were rolling hills with a constant elevation gain and then it shot up 500 ft within next 1/4 mile. After another 2.5 miles of rolling hills we reached the hill top. The total run was little over 8 miles with an elevation gain of 1755...

Jazoon 2010 - Day 1 Report & Photos

Jazoon 2010 kick started earlier today with Danny's keynote on about "Java SE and Java FX: The Road Ahead". He highlighted the clear difference between the Java...

Jazoon 2010 kick started earlier today with Danny's keynote on about "Java SE and Java FX: The Road Ahead". He highlighted the clear difference between the Java SE 7 which is the platform and JDK 7 which is the corresponding implementation. The evolution of Java over many years was well covered but an interesting video showed the Star7 PDA Prototype, basically Java before 1995, enjoy it below:One of the new feature coming in JDK 7 is support for parallelism with Garbage...

On the eve of Jazoon 2010 - Running in Zurich

What do runners do in a new city on the eve of a technology conference they are speaking at ?Of course, they find a track and run. Especially with a new...

What do runners do in a new city on the eve of a technology conference they are speaking at ?Of course, they find a track and run. Especially with a new GPS-enabled running watch :-) Check out the activity uploaded from Garmin Forerunner 305 to connect.garmin.com. The backend of Garmin community website seems like a Java Server Faces application, at least the URL ending in ".faces" indicate so!There is no treadmill and bike at the hotel's fitness center so guess will have to...