Great news my fellow Java-coders, Oracle announced that there will be a JavaOne 2010 after all.
However, don't start packing your bags quite yet. JavaOne will be part of Oracle's yearly Oracle World/Develop conferences and thus it won't be in spring as we've gotten used to but will be rescheduled to September 19-23 of this year.
January 28, 2010
October 15, 2009
IntelliJ IDEA 9 is just around the corner
Great news! It seems that IntelliJ IDEA 9.0 with an extended list of features is just around the corner; however, the greatest news of them all is that Jetbrains will be releasing IDEA as open source!
Amongst the new features which will come in handy (at least for me) are:
Anyway, as I said: the most exciting bit for me is the fact that IDEA will be open source which means that a greater number of people can get accustomed with IDEA; yet, I speculate that the real benefit lies in in the fact that you can now step into IDEA's code when the plug-in you may be writing just doesn't seem to do what you expect.
To round this off I should add that it's not all "Netbeansy". Despite the fact that the guys behind IDEA chose to go open source, they didn't go all the way. If you, like me, use the Java EE- and Spring-capabilities, you will still have to shell out roughly €200 for a personal license of the IDE. All in all I am still pleasantly surprised and I am downloading the source code as we speak (/write).
Amongst the new features which will come in handy (at least for me) are:
- Support for Java EE 6
- Support for Java SE 7
- An improved Griffon/Grails plugin
- Android development-support
Anyway, as I said: the most exciting bit for me is the fact that IDEA will be open source which means that a greater number of people can get accustomed with IDEA; yet, I speculate that the real benefit lies in in the fact that you can now step into IDEA's code when the plug-in you may be writing just doesn't seem to do what you expect.
To round this off I should add that it's not all "Netbeansy". Despite the fact that the guys behind IDEA chose to go open source, they didn't go all the way. If you, like me, use the Java EE- and Spring-capabilities, you will still have to shell out roughly €200 for a personal license of the IDE. All in all I am still pleasantly surprised and I am downloading the source code as we speak (/write).
June 8, 2009
One more "Architect"...
This isn't big news, really. Still, I'd like to share my latest accomplishment. As of today I may call myself Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for Java EE 5.
In fact, it's quite funny that I actually feel a little proud of myself... after all, I've real-world experience being an Architect for fairly complex mission-critical applications.
Anyway, despite the proven fact that certifications do have very little value in the business (other than the impressive title), it does feel nice to have finished my last Sun certification (or is it Oracle now, hmm...) despite having a fair amount of real work to accomplish during the days.
In fact, it's quite funny that I actually feel a little proud of myself... after all, I've real-world experience being an Architect for fairly complex mission-critical applications.
Anyway, despite the proven fact that certifications do have very little value in the business (other than the impressive title), it does feel nice to have finished my last Sun certification (or is it Oracle now, hmm...) despite having a fair amount of real work to accomplish during the days.
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