Headaches With Fish Oil

GeeCON 2009

Last week was marked by GeeCON conference - time to summarize two days spent in Krakow.

Organizers chose the venue cinema (Multikino Krakow), which had its pluses, positive and negative;) Best result is an enormous screen behind the speaker, which slides are displayed - and it is a step in the right direction. The problem is, however, the right lighting - to the darkened room cinema speaker was visible, and the light does not illuminate the screen. Unfortunately, not completely managed to do during the first lecture Simon Ritter "JavaFX: The Platform for Rich Internet Applications." From the place where I sat some of the slides were practically invisible. He mentioned this to the same speaker, who often have to describe what should be visible on the screen.

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lighting problems were partially solved and then it was much better. An interesting and successful gentlemen gave a lecture to SpringSource: Alef Arendsen and Arjen Poutsma . They talked about the news in Spring 3.0, and Arjen has also started the second day of the conference an interesting lecture on Spring and RESTful Web Services.

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Next came time for the lecture Waldek Kota about virtualization - interesting, but probably a little too detailed, and somewhat stremowanego Jack Laskowski who presented on OpenEJB. Jacek went to the lecture probably a bit conservative and does not give any example at the beginning of "live". It seems that some jitters got to him associated with the occurrence of English. The concerns were unnecessary, because the language was good - but could use some more interesting topic, in which Jace could further spread my wings;)

On the first day I attended a great lecture yet Vaclav Pecha "Practical Groovy" - a way of presentation, showing examples , contact with the audience - all at six. Vaclav showed how Groovy helps to resolve some problems and how to easily integrate it with Java.

remember the second day mainly due to two very good lectures Antonio Goncalves 's, and a great run in a funny lecture by Bruno Bossoli. Antonio asked to substitute one of the speakers presented the GlassFish application server and the second (planned), the latest in a lecture devoted JavaEE6.
Bossola Bruno, a member of the JUG Torino, discussed the principles of software design in a very charismatic, seasoned with a large dose of humor way. Every once in a while, the slides containing found fragments of the funniest comments in the code:

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very important elements of the conference was "additional attractions, among which the most interesting was the Beer Certification Path, which is round of the pubs in Krakow on Thursday evening. In each of the four pubs to pick up Sun's was a beer:) and the stamp - one of the letters of the word JAVA:

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Great idea: D By the way, we have another argument in the superiority of Java over C # - Java has more letters;)

short - a few interesting lectures, afternoon beer in Krakow - is made generally think that the conference a success. Certainly the success of brilliance eclipsed technical problems at the beginning of the light, then connecting the laptop, especially "poppies" for the projectors, but we all learn from our mistakes and I'm sure that GeeCON 2010 will be even better - and the more such events, the better for us :)