Today was the Java University day. It was a long day. There were three sessions, each of three hours duration which meant a twelve hour day (including breaks). My first session was Developing Enterprise Applications With the Spring Framework with Chris Richardson, the author of POJOs in Action. He was a good speaker although he had one of those slightly mutant delicately nuanced accents that Brits seem to get after spending a long time living […]
Today I arrived in sunny San Francisco ahead of JavaOne 2008. Tomorrow is the Java University day before the main conference starts on Tuesday. I’m staying in the Sir Francis Drake Hotel on Powell Street. This is an interesting hotel, built in 1928, with lots of quirky touches like doormen in Beefeater uniforms and a cool “Cutler Mailing System” which seems to be a chute that runs down the elevator shaft. Presumably you can drop […]
While I was doing a yum update today I noticed it was trying mirror.facebook.com. It turns out they mirror a lot of open source projects there.
I thought I may as well put some of the work I did for my MSc online rather than leave it languishing on my hard drive where it will never be seen again. I’m not ready to publish my final project yet but here is a research essay I wrote about Mock Objects and test driven design (TDD).
Well, it is the last day of the MySQL Users Conference. It’s been really interesting with lots of great sessions and keynotes. Today was a bit shorter and I think the programme was the weakest as far as sessions went but here are the ones I attended. Rasmus gave a keynote today with the rather strange title “PHP on Hormones“. He showed us an example of “PHP v1.0” and gave four reasons why people contribute […]
It was the third day of the MySQL Users Conference and it was just as packed with good stuff as the days before. Eben Moglen, Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law School and General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation gave a very thoughtful and interesting keynote entitled “Freedom Businesses Protect Privacy”. He talked about how the type of information stored has changed over the centuries and how the most powerful […]