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Java Rant Episode 8 - July 20th 2008

Show Notes…

In this episode we discuss the open source MMORPG server framework from Sun Microsystems called Project Darkstar. Jeff Kesselman is the architect and lead engineer on this project. It should be quite interesting to see what comes out of this powerful technology.

Links

• Project Darkstar home - http://www.projectdarkstar.com

Thanks

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o Opening -”Motherboard” composed by Andy Potterton, published by Perfect Solution Music
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Java Rant Episode 7 - May 28th 2008

Show Notes…

This episode was recorded at the May SEVAJUG meeting where I gave a presentation about “Making Hot Apps with GWT”. The next episode of JavaRant will be back to our normal format along with all new challenges, so for now, set back, relax and enjoy!

Links

• GWT home - http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
• GWT Blog - http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com

Books

• Google Web Toolkit Solutions: More Cool & Useful Stuff
• GWT in Practice
• GWT in Action: Easy Ajax with the Google Web Toolkit

Thanks

* Jordan Richley for the JavaRant artwork
* Feedburner.com for the feed redirects
* Theme Music
o Opening -”Motherboard” composed by Andy Potterton, published by Perfect Solution Music
o Closing - “Quick Escape” by Hot Like Cajun from www.hotlikecajun.com

* Contact
o http://www.javarant.com
o http://groups.google.com/group/javarant
o Call with questions or feedback - 206-350-8705
o or email comments@javarant.com

 

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JavaOne is a great event, the worst part of it is you can’t possibly drink it all in. Chris, Dan, and I have been to so many sessions that have added new technologies to our tool belts, here is an overview of Tuesday and Thursday.

 

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Now that day one is done here at JavaOne, here is what we got from it. This is a quick overview of the following:

• Conference opening
• Cool demos
• Big announcements
• Day Sessions
• Birds of a Feather
• Vendor goodies

Here at JavaOne there is a huge buzz about scripting languages. I just got out of the session called “Groovy, the Red Pill” by Scott Davis. Scott has been one of the most entertaining speakers here so far. The best part of this session was not that he was funny, but he really brought the audience along in the “day and life” of a Groovy developer.

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Join me and my two colleagues, Chris and Dan, talk about the upcoming JavaOne University that we will be attending as well as some thoughts about what we are going to be doing through the week.

When you are working with Eclipse, you will need to be able to add different SDK versions to be able to test with. Here is a quick presentation on how to make a new SDK entry.

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The big conference of the year is just one weekaway. For those of you that don’t know about JavaOne, it is the conference that Sun Microsystems puts on each year. Industry leaders are brought in to speak about the various hot technologies along with a myriad of other interesting topics. Talks range anywhere from Service Oriented Architectures and SOA frameworks to Sun’s open source MMORPG server Darkstar.

Two colleagues of mine and I will be going to JavaOne 2008 and will be giving updates throughout the week. There will be short updates on this blog and more detailed talks on the JavaRant.com podcast. If you aren’t already subscribed, go and add it to your favorite pod catcher software so you don’t miss anything!

If there are any suggested topics you would like to hear about, send in a comment and we will do our best to get some information. If you are a listener and would like to get together, send me an email, I would love to meet some other folks while we are out there!

 

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Java Rant Episode 3 - Hibernate – March 21st 2008

Show Notes…

Welcome back to the Java Rant podcast

Hibernate
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I love the Hibernate framework from JBoss, truly I do. The productivity that it gives me is through the roof, well once I got used to it that is. I do have to admit that this past week has greatly tested my affection for this best of breed ORM tool. During a demo I noticed that the beta server simply stopped responding. I thought to myself, “Hmmm, thats odd, I wonder what is going on.” I used my Jedi mind trick on the customers by waiving my arms in the air and speaking authoritatively like I actually knew what was going on (thankfully they bought it :P). (Continue reading…)