By jettro, on October 2nd, 2008
At the moment I am already home, we had a long drive from 10 hours, a good night sleep, and a day at work. I owe you all the report of the last day at the JAOO and maybe some final thoughts.
This post tells a story about jpa and internal domain specific languages, read on if you want to learn more.
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By jettro, on October 1st, 2008
After a good night with drinks and fun we started of with the second day. A keynote about google v8, their java script engine. Hmm, not my thing. It does look incredibly fast by the way. So as a user I am interested. The next presentation is what this blog post is about, Failure comes in flavors. The other presentations I attended about RIA’s were not very interesting and based on the feedback, I did not miss anything by not attending any of the last presentations.
More about the good news, the extra long presentation (two sessions) about Failures in Java was very interesting. I got a lot of ideas out of it. If you continue reading, I’ll share some of these ideas.
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By jettro, on September 30th, 2008
From monday to wednesday I am attending JAOO in Denmark with 6 other colleagues. I am not going to give an extensive report, but some notes and remarks might interest you guys. Therefore a brief summary of what I have seen, the presentations I attended and the most interesting things I remember.
The first day in just a few words, not necessarily in order: Linq (why don’t we have this is java?), performance and scalability (still important), programming the cloud (gives new things to think about), google apis (wow there is really a lot you can do), scala (just not my thing), beer (there is enough here)
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