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Gavin King: Ceylon at DevNation 2014

March 25, 2014conferencesdevnation, speakerarungupta

Gaving King (+GavingKing), creator of Hibernate and Ceylon will be speaking at DevNation.

Here is what he had to say about his sessions …

What sessions are you giving at DevNation ?

“Eleven Ceylon Idioms”, a talk that aims to quickly introduce some
distinctive features of Ceylon’s type system via examples.

What are three takeaways from your sessions ?

How to think about the common statement that languages with static typing are less “expressive”, and what we can do about that.
That union and intersection types make static typing much more expressive.
How and why Ceylon captures null-ness and emptiness within the statically type system.

What do you find most exciting about DevNation ?

This is the very first time we’re presenting Ceylon to a large conference audience in the United States.

What sessions are you looking forward to attend ?

Bringing transactional guarantees to MongoDB – Paul Robinson
Building an enterprise app from scratch – Pete Muir
Hadoop and beyond: architectural considerations for scalable big data storage – Scott McClellan

Do you want to learn more about Ceylon ?

Mauricio Leal: CDI Training and Mobile Experience with WebSocket at DevNation 2014

March 24, 2014conferencesdevnation, speakerarungupta

Mauricio Leal (@maltron), Community Manager, Developer Advocate, and Outreach Program Manager at Red Hat will be speaking at DevNation.

Here is what he had to say about his sessions …

What sessions are you giving at DevNation ?

I will present one training:
Application Development with CDI, Sunday, 4/13, 9am

and one talk on Wednesday:
Enhancing Mobile Experience with WebSocket, Wednesday, 4/16, 4:50pm

What are three takeaways from your sessions ?

From my training:

The basics of CDI
Leveraging CDI in Java EE Applications
Decoupling and turning your application more maintainable

From my talk: Enhancing Mobile Experience with WebSocket

WebSocket 101: What kind of problems it’s good to approach.
Understand when to leverage WebSocket for better Mobile Experience
When WebSocket is good for (and when it’s not)

What do you find most exciting about DevNation ?

Meet several legendary speakers such as Gavin King and Tim Fox. Be close to the people who is providing the latest technologies, making the lives of Developers much easier and catch up with the newest innovations from Red Hat.

…and let’s not forget: The Beer

What sessions are you looking forward to attend ?

Integrating the Internet of Things – Sameer Parulkar & Jack Britton
Java Puzzlers: Something old, something Gnu, Something bogus, something blew – Josh Bloch and Bob Lee
Cooking with Apache Camel: Tips and Tricks – Scott Cranton

Do you want to learn more about CDI, WebSocket, and meet a fun guy from Brazil ?

Grant Shipley: OpenShift at DevNation 2014

March 23, 2014conferencesdevnation, openshift, speakerarungupta

Grant Shipley (@gshipley), Senior Manager and OpenShift PaaS Evangelist at Red Hat will be speaking at DevNation.

Here is what he had to say about his sessions …

What sessions are you giving at DevNation ?

Sunday – 9:00am – 5:00PM OpenShift Development Training
Tuesday 10:40AM – 11:40AM Cloud bursting with OpenShift Enterprise
Tuesday 3:40PM – 4:40PM Full stack JavaScript — from mobile to cloud
Wednesday 10:40AM – 11:40AM Introduction to OpenShift for Developers

What are three takeaways from your sessions ?

Sunday – 9:00am – 5:00PM OpenShift Development Training

Understanding the fundamentals of the OpenShift Developer workflow
How to create and deploy Java EE applications
How to manage your application lifecycle including continuous integration, databases, log view, and debugging

Tuesday 10:40AM – 11:40AM Cloud bursting with OpenShift Enterprise

Why deploying an application to multiple data centers makes sense
How to setup and configure a multi datacenter OpenShift deployment
How scaling works internally to the platform

Tuesday 3:40PM – 4:40PM Full stack JavaScript — from mobile to cloud

JavaScript is no longer a toy language
Developer native mobile, web UI, REST services, and databases (for JSON documents) using only JavaScript
When it makes sense to use a cross platform development tool for mobile

Wednesday 10:40AM – 11:40AM Introduction to OpenShift for Developers

What is OpenShift and how can it help you as a developer
How to install the client tools
How to deploy application from the command line using git

What do you find most exciting about DevNation ?

The speaker line up is second to none. This is a conference that is focused at developers and includes many in depth sessions on the latest technologies available.

What sessions are you looking forward to attend ?

Hacknight Wed, April 16th at 6:00PM
50 new features of Java EE 7 by Arun Gupta on Monday at 10:15
High performance application with Vert.X by Time fox, the creator of the project

Do you want to learn more about OpenShift and its ecosystem ?

Lincoln Baxter: JBoss Forge at DevNation 2014

March 20, 2014conferences, redhatdevnation, forge, speakerarungupta

Lincoln Baxter (@lincolnthree), Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat will be speaking at DevNation.

Here is what he had to say about his session …

What sessions are you giving at DevNation ?

Tools worth sharing: Take back your IDE with Forge
Tuesday, 4/15, 4:50pm

What are three takeaways from your session ?

How Forge can help you be more productive.
How Forge can help you share your technology and ideas.
How Forge is changing how we interact with development tools.

What do you find most exciting about DevNation ?

The fact that so many different communities and technologies will be coming together to present in one place. This is the best time to share ideas, cross-pollinate, and prototype cool new features! I love the collaborative atmosphere and chance to get to meet new people, see what people think about the work we are doing, and figure out how to make their lives a little easier.

What sessions are you looking forward to attend ?

Beer & BoF – Tools for JBoss migrations – Robb Greathouse (Room 220)
Hacknight (Room 224)
Wake me up: The tale of a startup – Langdon White (Room 208)

Do you want to learn more about how to get started with JBoss Forge ?

Keeny Peeples: Red Hat JBoss Fuse and OpenShift at DevNation 2014

March 19, 2014conferences, redhatdevnation, speakerarungupta

Kenny Peeples (@ossmentor), Architect, Developer, and Project Manager at Red Hat will be speaking at DevNation.

Here is what he had to say about his session …

What sessions are you giving at DevNation ?

Wed 4/16 1:20 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Using Red Hat JBoss Fuse on OpenShift (Room 208)

OpenShift Online automates the provisioning, management, and scaling of applications so that you can focus on development and creativity. The newly created Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.1 cartridge allows you to use Fuse and Fuse Fabric in the OpenShift Online public cloud. JBoss Fuse provides a full-featured, easy-to-use and intuitive framework for integration with extensive connectivity options to external applications. Join us to see how to use Fuse and Fuse Fabric in OpenShift online. In this session, you’ll learn:

How to install the Fuse cartridge.
How to access and use the Fuse Management Console.
How to deploy and test a Fuse bundle.

What are three takeaways from your session ?

The Ease of Use with OpenShift and the Fuse Cartridge
The Flexibility and Features of the Fuse Management Console
The Knowledge to get started with your first Application right when you get home

What do you find most exciting about DevNation ?

The breadth and detail of the sessions since we have CamelOne, JUDCon, Red Hat Connect Developer Exchange Events at DevNation.
The Co-location of Red Hat Summit with DevNation during the same week gives a great opportunity to learn about the community and the products

What sessions are you looking forward to attend ?

Integration PaaS: Continuous Integration with Fabric8 and OpenShift – Rob Davies & James Strachan
Writing basic OpenShift cartridges – Paul Morie (Room 212)
Big data processing with Hadoop on OpenStack – Matthew Farrellee (Room 212))

Do you want to learn more about how to get started with Red Hat JBoss Fuse on OpenShift ?

Aslak Knutsen: Enterprise Testing at DevNation 2014

March 18, 2014conferences, redhatdevnation, speakerarungupta

Aslak Knutsen (@aslakknutsen), a Senior Software Engineer and Arquillian Project Lead at Red Hat will be speaking at DevNation.

Here is what he had to say about his session …

What sessions are you giving at DevNation ?

The ABCs of testing the enterprise layers (Room 212)
Wednesday 4/16 @ 4:50pm

What are three takeaways from your session ?

Everything that can fail will, so test.
The scope of ‘too hard to test’ has been drastically reduced.
Meet the aliens.

What do you find most exciting about DevNation ?

Nice mix of DevOps, Cloud and Development.

What sessions are you looking forward to attend ?

Writing basic OpenShift cartridges
Containers all the way down: Q&A with the Docker team
HackNight

Do you want to learn more about transactional guarantees in MongoDB ?

Anton Arhipov: JRebel Story at DevNation 2014d

March 17, 2014conferences, redhatdevnation, speakerarungupta

Anton Arhipov (@antonarhipov), JRebel product manager at Zero Turnaround will be speaking at DevNation.

Here is what he had to say about his session …

What sessions are you giving at DevNation ?

1000 years of productivity: The JRebel story (Room 224)
Wednesday 4/16 @ 1:20 p.m.

Developer productivity has always been in focus, and Java, as a platform, has made us very productive to support the needs of businesses. Millions of enterprises run web applications powered by the Java EE platform, but developing them is no small feat. Every UI change in development incurs a wait time of up to 15 minutes and sometimes even longer! JRebel is a tool that tackles the challenge of live application update for the Java EE platform.

What are key takeaways from your session ?

First and foremost, you will learn about the tool itself – how can you apply JRebel for simplifying development process.
Learn a bit more about Java platform than you usually would – what are the technical and conceptual challenges for the problem that JRebel is trying to solve.
Get a though provoking view on the Java ecosystem and how Java tooling works.

What do you find most exciting about DevNation ?

I see it as an opportunity to learn more about the new tools and techniques for Java developers. Looking at the talks, I can certainly tell that I could learn a trick or two at this conference

What sessions are you looking forward to attend ?

These days I’m quite interested in data analytics, therefore I’m looking forward to attend the “Fast and easy data analytics with Apache Spark” by Pat McDonough but also the talk on “How Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana provide real-time” data enlightenment.

I’m also curious about the prospects of OpenShift and PaaS in general, thus I’ll to sneak into OpenShift roadmap session presented by Matt Hicks and Ashesh Badani.

Of course, no conference should miss a talk on performance issues! There will be the talk called “Receipts to analyze common performance issues” by Will Cohen. It doesn’t seem to be quite Java centric, so I’m really curious what will it be about.

Do you want to learn more about how to tackle the challenges of live application update for the Java EE platform ?

Stan Lewis: hawtio at DevNation 2014

March 16, 2014conferences, redhatdevnation, speakerarungupta

Stan Lewis (@gashcrumb), Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat will be speaking at DevNation.

Here is what he had to say about his session …

What sessions are you giving at DevNation ?

I’m giving two sessions, on Monday in the Fuse track it’ll be “Inspecting JVMs with hawtio” even though it’s currently showing up in the schedule as “Extending hawtio”, that’s just some placeholder text. And then on Wednesday I’m doing “hawtio: the extensible console for managing your Java stuff”. I’ve basically been thinking the Monday session is kind of an intro to hawtio and the Wednesday session would be a deeper dive.

What are key takeaways from your session ?

“Inspecting JVMs with hawtio” is meant to be an intro to the hawtio project and how it relates to the Fuse Management Console. We’ll go over how hawtio can be used to inspect a JVM and how to connect to different JVMs. We’ll also take a look at managing an instance of fabric8.
“hawtio: the extensible console for managing your Java stuff” is a deeper dive into how hawtio works. We’ll do a brief overview of hawtio and what’s available out of the box. Then we’ll take a look at various ways that hawtio can be extended, either by overriding some extension javascript files we ship in our war file or developing a standalone hawtio plugin.
For both sessions we’ll basically be taking a tour of the hawtio UI, I’m not planning to write any slides, most likely I’ll just use hawtio to host any slide-y stuff

What do you find most exciting about DevNation ?

It looks huge! Actually pretty overwhelming as compared to our previous Camel One events

What sessions are you looking forward to attend ?

Getting Social with Apache Camel – Charles Moullard (Room 236) – to check out what I believe are some fairly new social components for Camel, hopefully I can make it, it’s right after my session
Integrating the Internet of Things – Sameer Parulkar & Jack Britton (Room 208)

Do you want to learn more about how to use hawtio to manage your server and stay cool ?

Ioannis Canellos: Fabric8 at DevNation 2014

March 15, 2014conferencesdevnation, speakerarungupta

Ioannis Canellos (@iocanel), Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat will be speaking at DevNation.

Here is what he had to say about his session …

What sessions are you giving at DevNation ?

Introduction to Fabric8, Sunday, 4/13, 2pm, Room 224
A Deep Dive to Fabric8, Sunday, 4/13, 3pm, Room 224

What are key takeaways from your session ?

The first talk is going to be an introduction to Fabric8, that will help people to understand what this is all about.
The second talk is going to be a dive into the more technical stuff, that will help people to understand how to get the most out of Fabric8.

What do you find most exciting about DevNation ?

People. I always find it awesome to talk with people from the “community” and also with people from other “communities” that are close to Fabric8.

Do you want to learn more about Fabric8 and how it makes to easily provision, configure and manage open source integration technologies on a number of containers (or JVMs). ?

Java EE 7 and WildFly in France, Germany, and Switzerland

March 14, 2014conferences, redhatcommunity, javaee7arungupta

Andrew Rubinger (@ALRubinger) and I are starting this Spring with a tour of France, Germany, and Switzerland.

Paris JUG: 3/19
Marseille JUG: 3/20
Riviera JUG: 3/21
AeroGear hackathon: 3/22
JavaLand: 3/25 & 3/26
Zurich JUG: 3/27

There will be lots of discussions on Java EE 7, WildFly, Arquillian, AeroGear, Cordova, JBoss Tools, Open Source, Red Hat or anything else that comes to your fancy. Personally, I’m always interested in sharing fitness workout routines and talking about how we can inspire kids/teenagers through Devoxx4Kids.

I’m always up for running in any of these cities. JavaLand already has a community run scheduled for Mar 26th. Lets see which city has the runners to take me out city seeing 😉

Where will we see you ?

Paul Robinson: Transactional Guarantees to MongoDB at DevNation 2014

March 13, 2014conferences, redhatdevnation, speakerarungupta

Paul Robinson (@pfrobinson), Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat will be speaking at DevNation.

Here is what he had to say about his session …

What sessions are you giving at DevNation ?

Bringing Transactional Guarantees to MongoDB (Room 224)
Tuesday 4/15 @ 10:40am

What are three takeaways from your session ?

If ACID transactions are not appropriate, you don’t need to throw out transactions altogether.
Compensating-transactions can bring additional transactional guarantees to MongoDB, without harming scalability.
WildFly 8 comes with a developer-friendly, annotation based API for using compensating-transactions that you can use today.

What do you find most exciting about DevNation ?

The people.

In previous years, JUDCon has always been the highlight of my professional calendar, giving me the opportunity to mix with many of the key people in the JBoss community. Looking at the speaker lineup for DevNation suggests that this conference will be no different.

TIP: I recommend making a list of all the people you want to meet and what you want to chat with them about. This has helped me to make sure I made the most of the opportunity and didn’t miss anyone in the excitement of the event.

Do you want to learn more about transactional guarantees in MongoDB ?

Markus Eisele: JavaScript and Java EE together at DevNation 2014

March 12, 2014conferences, redhatdevnation, speakerarungupta

Markus Eisele (@myfear, blog.eisele.net), Principal Technology Consultant at MSG-Systems AG will be speaking at DevNation.

Here is what he had to say about his session …

What session are you giving at DevNation ?

JavaScript on Java EE (Room 212)
Tuesday 4/15 @ 4:50pm

What are three takeaways from your session ?

JavaScript is a valid option to integrate with traditional Java EE applications
There are many different ways of taking advantage from different approaches. Not every single one is the right one.
It is still very early to judge on full stack JavaScript development for enterprise level applications

What do you find most exciting about DevNation ?

I’ve been to Boston for RedHat’s JUDCon in 2012 and got my JBCRA for my contributions to the Arquillian project. And I was always wondering about the more or less one day event, and the extremely high quality sessions that were held without much recognition in the overall developer scene. Everything was kind of overlayed by RedHat Summit.
DevNation hopefully delivers when it comes to a complete developer conference. The lineup is incredibly exciting and I am very happy to be among the early announced speakers. I am so much looking forward being back in SF and Moscone. This is the
place where I want a conference in my space to be

Do you want to learn about Nashorn, Avatar, Scripting JSR and other possible options of also using JavaScript on the back-end and outlining a possible direction for Enterprise Java in general ?

Paul Bakker: OSGi at DevNation 2014

March 11, 2014conferencesdevnation, speakerarungupta

Paul Bakker (@pbakker), Software Engineer at Luminis Technologies will be speaking at DevNation.

Here is what he had to say about his session …

What sessions are you giving at DevNation ?

OSGi by Example (Room 220)
Tuesday 4/15 @ 4:50pm

Modularity is becoming more relevant each day. It’s key to maintainable code, and it’s the ultimate agile tool. OSGi is the only mature modularity solution available. In this talk you’ll see OSGi development in action.

OSGi is known for being complex and hard to use. This is far from true with today’s tools and frameworks. In this session you’ll see an OSGi application being built from scratch and learn about package imports and exports, dynamic services, dependency injection, and integration with JAX-RS and MongoDB. It’s a session for both new and experienced OSGi developers.

What are three takeaways from your session ?

Modularity is key to maintainable code. A modular code base is easier to maintain and adapt to new situations. This makes modularity the ultimate agile tool.
Modularity doesn’t have to be difficult, all the tools are here!
Modularity is all about Micro Services, it’s not just fancy class loading.

What do you find most exciting about DevNation ?

I’m excited about speaking at DevNation because It’s a brand new conference with a very impressive speaker line up. Topics are diverse and cover subjects that go beyond the usual. I’m expecting this will be a conference where there’s not just a lot to learn, but also a conference that will inspire new ideas.

What sessions are you looking forward to attend ?

How Facebook does open source at scale: At Luminis Technologies we are actively participating in several open source projects (e.g. Amdatu, Apache Felix, Apache ACE, Bndtools…) and it’s a significant part of the work we do. We strongly believe that working in a larger community has many benefits, but of course it also comes with challenges. I’m very interested to see how a huge company like Facebook manages to do this at a large scale.

Continuous delivery through continuous questioning – Joel Tosi (Room 212): Continuous delivery is something I’m pushing for at my own team. There are many advantages to gain, but it’s far from trivial to get to a point where this is actually possible. Not so much on the technical side, but more so on how to actually communicate this with users and make sure that you’re actually improving their experience. I’m interested to see how other team are dealing with this, and I’m certainly hoping for some discussion during or after this session.

Besides these specific talks I’m hoping to see more from Docker (there are several sessions on this), which seems to be an interesting way to deal with deployments.

Finally I’m looking forward to see Lincoln Baxter showing Forge 2. I used to be an active contributor to the project in the past, and I’m excited to see what has happened in the past year.

Do you want to learn more about OSGi from a real practitioner ?

Meet Mike Milinkovich: Speaker at DevNation 2014

March 7, 2014conferencesdevnation, speakerarungupta

Mike Milinkovich (@mmilinkov), Executive Director of Eclipse Foundation will be speaking at DevNation.

Here is what he had to say about his sessions …

What sessions are you giving at DevNation ?

Browser-Based Development and the Internet of Things (Room 212)
Tuesday 4/15 @ 3:40pm

The Internet of Things is coming, and open source developer tools and frameworks are starting to take shape to support it. At Eclipse there is a vibrant community working on the protocols, runtimes, frameworks and tools for building IoT applications in languages such as Lua, JavaScript and Java. In this talk, I will be discussing some of these projects such as Paho (MQTT client), Mosquitto (MQTT broker), Kura (Java+OSGi device gateway framework), Mihini (Lua device gateway framework), and others. In addition, I will be using the Orion web-based development tool to demonstrate how you can use your browser to develop IoT applications right on your favorite open hardware device, whether it be a Raspberry Pi, Beagle Bone, or Arduino.

What are three takeaways from your session ?

Open wins, and open technologies are going to win in the Internet of Things. The Eclipse Foundation is working hard to help make that happen.
There is a very active community at the Eclipse Foundation building IoT technologies. And I do not mean Eclipse tools in the traditional sense. There are projects building IoT protocols, runtimes and frameworks in Lua, JavaScript and Java at the Eclipse community.
These technologies are an enormous amount of fun. I am doing this talk largely because playing with these Eclipse IoT technologies on open hardware platforms has turned into a hobby and personal passion of mine.

What do you find most exciting about DevNation ?

Looks like an excellent line up of speakers, and it is great to see Red Hat get behind a pure developer conference for its community.

Do you want to learn more about Eclipse foundation is shaping up Internet of Things ?

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March 4, 2014conferencesdevnationarungupta

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Dates: April 13-17, 2014
Venue: Moscone Center, San Francisco
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Agenda: www.devnation.org/#agenda
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