Devoxx versus JavaOne

Devoxx or JavaOne?
Thats the question...

It's really not that difficult to choose.
If you are based in Europe (as our company is), then you will for sure get more value for your money attending Devoxx instead of JavaOne.

However, if you look at a technical perspective, then still Devoxx comes on top in my opinion. The opening talk is by Mark Reinhold and one of the last talks, "Java state of the Union" is by no other than James Gosling. (I don't even need to link to him, every Java developer should know who he is), and there are tons of fameous speakers: Brian Goetz, The JavaPosse, Heinz Kabutz, Richard Bair and Roberto Chinnici just to name a few. (No pun intented for the others I didn't mention).

So it shouldn't come as a big surprise that I am also attending Devoxx. If you are going, lemme know and we can hook up!

My JavaOne 2009 schedule

I am attending JavaOne 2009 this year, and very much looking forward to it. Only one month ahead now.
This is the schedule I have chosen:




Unfortunately, many tracks go simultaneously, but I did put the tracks that I also am interested in, in "My interest"

Tuesday, Jun 02
10:50-11:50	Esplanade 307-310, Moscone		Ajaxifying Existing Web Applications	Seats Available
16:40-17:40	Hall E 134, Moscone		Spring Framework 3.0: New and Notable	Seats Available
18:00-19:00	Esplanade 304-306, Moscone		Securing Web and Service-Oriented Architectures with Apache Axis, WSS4J, Spring, and OpenLDAP	Seats Available
Wednesday, Jun 03
09:45-10:45	Esplanade 307-310, Moscone		Extreme Google Web Toolkit: Exploring Advanced Aspects of GWT	Seats Available
09:45-10:45	Gateway 102-103, Moscone		The Modular Java? Platform and Project Jigsaw	Seats Available
09:45-10:45	Hall E 134, Moscone		Upgrading OSGi	Seats Available
11:05-12:05	Esplanade 304-306, Moscone		RESTful Transaction Systems	Seats Available
11:05-12:05	Hall E 134, Moscone		Developing RESTful Web Services with the Java? API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS)	Seats Available
11:05-12:05	Gateway 102-103, Moscone		Modularity in the Java? Programming Language: JSR 294 and Beyond	Seats Available
11:05-12:05	Esplanade 307-310, Moscone		Ajax Performance Tuning and Best Practice	Seats Available
13:30-14:30	Esplanade 307-310, Moscone		Creating Compelling User Experiences	Seats Available
13:30-14:30	Gateway 102-103, Moscone		"Effective Java": Still Effective After All These Years	Seats Available
Thursday, Jun 04
14:50-15:50	Esplanade 305, Moscone		FIRST (For Inspiration & Recognition of Science and Technology): FRC-FIRST Robotic Competition	Seats Available
16:10-17:10	Hall E 134, Moscone		Keeping a Relational Perspective for Optimizing the Java? Persistence API (JPA)	Seats Available

I will see you there!

No JavaOne for me

I was planning to go to JavaOne in San Francisco this year, but my manager gave me the thumbs down the last minute. We have recently won a contract from the Kommuneforlaget, and we are going to work on an electronic application for alcohol serving. They need me on the team ASAP so I can't go :-(

I had ordered the ticket and everything. Anyways, I'm glad to be on the team, it looks like a really cool project where we are going to use JBoss, RHEL, JBoss JBPM, Seam, Mule or JBoss ESB and other cool stuff.

So 1. may is the date I will start working with the Linpro team...