A Java Cloud Platform

Published May 30th, 2011 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment

I have attended recently a interesting conference by Sacha Labourey, the former CTO of JBoss, that presented his new start-up named Cloudbees that aims at providing a “frictionless” platform to develop and run Java (or more precisely JVM-based language) software in the cloud. This conferences provided interesting informations on the benefits and limitations of currently using the Cloud as a development and execution platform. For more information on this topic, you can read Running Java in the Cloud with Cloudbees.

Quality Analysis Evening with the Java User Group Lausanne

Published February 17th, 2011 Under Conferences | 1 Comment

The Java User Group Lausanne (JUGL) organized last week an evening where Java quality analysis tools were compared side-by-side, analyzing the same open source project. More than 100 participants came to watch the presentations done by
* Coverity
* Headway Software
* Parasoft
* Sonar
* XDepend

Eleven 2010 Conferences Videos Web Sites That You Could Explore to Be Smarter in 2011

Published January 11th, 2011 Under Conferences, Videos | Leave a Comment

We don’t have the time or the budget to go to all software development conferences around the world. Fortunately, more and more conferences offers now on the web videos of their past sessions. You will find here a selection of web sites that you can visit to improve your software development knowledge.

European Javas

If JavaOne was absorbed by OracleWorld, you can however still find some pure Java conferences like Jazoon held at the beginning of June in Zurich, Switzerland. I had the chance to be there and recommend you to check the “97 things every programmer should know” presentation by Kevin Henley. All Jazoon’s videos are hosted on Parleys.com where you could find other Java videos and you could also watch the Devoxx 2010 videos for 79 euros.
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October Software Development Conferences

Published September 28th, 2010 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment

Here is a list of software development related conferences and events that will take place in October and that have media partnerships with Methods & Tools:

* iqnite United Kingdom, October 4 2010, London, UK

* Java2Days 2010 conference, Octobre 7-8 2010, Sofia, Bulgaria

* Agile Eastern Europe, October 8-9, Kyiv, Ukraine

* iqnite 2010 Österreich, October 13 2010, Vienna, Austria

* Agile Cambridge 2010, October 14-15 2010, Cambridge, UK

* LESS 2010 International Conference on Lean Enterprise Software and Systems, October 17-20 2010, Helsinki, Finland

* Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, October 18-20 2010, Portland, USA

* Software Test Professionals Conference & Expo, October 19-21 2010, Las Vegas, USA

* SPTechCon, October 20-22 2010, Boston, USA

* iqnite 2010 Australia, October 26-27 2010, Sydney, Australia

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