W-JAX 2009: The Future of Enterprise Java

Disclaimer: This entry has been written while listening to the talk. Please forgive me any typographical or grammatical errors resulting from this approach.

Adam Bien is going to talk about the future of Enterprise Java. As we as QuinScape switched (mostly) to Spring in order to avoid the hassle of Enterprise Java and provide more benefit for less money to our customers I am looking forward to Adams statement since he is really one of those guys who just “get Enterprise Java”. I just wish Sun would have had more luck with that technology as a whole…

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W-JAX 2009: EJB in the Large, Part I

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Fabiane Bizinella Nardon is going to give an overview about one of the largest – maybe the largest – EJB application ever created. Knowing very few actually working EJB systems I am very interested in this.

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W-JAX 2009: Why the next five years will be about languages

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Next is the keynote by Ted Neward about language evolution. Since I am myself a strong believer in DSLs I’m looking forward to this talk.

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W-JAX 2009: Opening by Sebastian Meyen

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Sebastian will open the conference with an overview of hot topics and things to come. Let’s get ready to rumble…

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It’s W-JAX time… and time for a summary…

W-JAX 2009 starts for me today… since the past couple of weeks have been extremely busy (how could it be otherwise 😉 this is a good time to catch up with the state of affairs and update the blog once more. Here we go…

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The next week in review…

Wow, the next week really is going to be quite a fun week. A training, o and two days of holiday for the largest gaming show in the world. And some JADE programming mixed in. I’m gonna love it. Read more

Hochzeitsnachlese

So, langsam kehre ich wieder in das “normale Leben” zurück. Polterabend, Hochzeit, Hochzeitsreise sind mit dem August schon wieder alle vergangen, das Arbeitsleben hat mich wieder und langsam kehre ich aus der “Cook-Zeit” zurück in die westeuropäische Realität. Zeit, endlich mal den offiziellen Helfern bei der Hochzeit (neben all unseren großartigen Freunden, Verwandten und Bekannten, denen wir auf anderem Wege danken) zu danken.

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What an amazing time…

Since this will be the last blog entry for a couple of weeks I just wanted to write down some impressions about this really amazing time in my life.

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VMWare going to acquire SpringSource for $420 million

Despite being the head of our SpringSource Premier Systems Integrator team at QuinScape this one took me by surprise. It was a well-guarded secret as far as we are concerned and no information leaked previously. And I failed to see the signs although they were there:

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Digital Gaming Tables

I just got sidetracked for a short moment by this awesome presentation of a digital gaming table. After my Ph.D. thesis and my honeymoon that’s something to look more closely into… I’m absolutely awed…

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