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