Fazit...

It was a cool experience at the Devoxx.
Somebody said, "Devoxx is not so much about learning, but about getting passionate".

It definitely hits the nail on the head. Of course, I did hear a lot. My personal major keywords would be: the Cloud, NoSQL(MongoDB), Android, HTML5!
There were excellent talks presented by fascinating people. The presentations and the many live demos on the interesting themes, really motivates one to test and try out the cool "newbies"!

Fazit: See you next year! :)

Some more reasons to attend Devoxx:








P.S Unfortunately those trees on the main avenue near Centraal Station didn't make it :(

Day 5 - where does time go?

Friday was the last day of the DEVOXX 2011.
Lots of people had already left but there were still enough to fill a few rooms to hear the technical discussion panel.

The talk on the "Evolution of Java: Past, Present and the Future" by Joshua Bloch was of course also very well attended. Joshua Bloch presented his views on basically all the major changes in Java since 1995, from assertions to serialization to Project Coin.

Cool talk :)))

Day 4 - on Cloud nine

So, as you may have noticed, this is a way overdue entry about day 4 at DEVOXX 2011 :)

As I still haddn't gotten enough, I decided to hear another session about the Cloud.

Cloud is such stuff that dream are made on
(Patrick Chanezon, Guillaume Laforge and Ludovic Cahmpenois)


Overview of:
- Saas (Software as a service)
- Iaas (Infrastructure as a service)
- Paas (Platform as a service)
- Cloud Foundry, Google AppEngine, Cloudbees,Microsoft Azure


-- Google AppEngine
- easy to build
- easy to manage
- Admin Console "Appstart"
- secure
- SLA (99% uptime guarantee)
- easy to scale

--Gaelyk
- lightweight Groovy Toolkit on top of Google App Engine

“Don’t be a Google Bitch, don’t be a Facebook Bitch, and don’t be a Twitter Bitch. Be your own Bitch.”
Fred Wilson

--> Look at open source/open standards aspects of the platforms and services you use

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Html5 with Play,Scala Coffeescript and Jade
(Matt Raible)

Matt Raible in a entertaining talk, went about on his adventure on building a app using these technologies.

Check out his slides:
Html5 with Play,Scala Coffeescript and Jade

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Cool talk! :))


The jQuery Essentials
(Addy Osmani)

In a completely packed room, this talk presented some jQuery essentials.

Why use jQuery?
- well documented
- well tested
- large community
- it is lightweight

In the top million sites, over 60% use jQuery!

Version 1.7 just released!

Check out his talk here



(Andrew Swan and James Tyrrell)
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- Spring Roo is a shell based next-generation rapid application development tool for Java developers

The speakers demonstrated live how to use Spring Roo to very quickly create an application.

_It is useful for rapid prototyping or experimenting with supported technologies.
_even allows DB reverse engineering
_can create repositories, services on demand.

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Cool talk, but the shell based aspect, does turn me off :p