http://www.footprint.de/fcc Thoughts and rants on programming. Thu, 28 May 2009 05:44:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With a weeks delay I held my short presentation at the Java User Group Hamburg about Artifactory yesterday. Even though the presentation was just about 15 minutes, the feedback was very positive and impression was that Artifactory is a full-featured alternative to Nexus. The slides are available here: artifactory.pdf I hope you ... http://www.footprint.de/fcc/2009/05/artifactory-presentation-jughh/ The next meeting of the Java User Group Hamburg will be covering Flex3, BlazeDS and Java. I myself will give a short introduction to Artifactory, a free maven repository software based on Wicket and JackRabbit. The meeting takes place on May 20th, 2009 at 1900. I hope to see you there! Best regards, ... http://www.footprint.de/fcc/2009/05/artifactory-maven-at-jughh/ Scala get's more and more attention. I'm trying to push the interest further and I'm happy to announce that my presentation at the Java Forum Stuttgart 2009 has been accepted. There will also be a presentation of Scala in Hamburg at the Arbeitskreis Objekttechnologie Norddeutschland. Both presentations will be held in german. Please ... http://www.footprint.de/fcc/2009/04/scala-presentations-jfs/ A couple of days ago I had a discussion on what would be the five libraries a developer should have had a good look at. This naturally is depending on what type of programming you're focusing on, so you will seldom get the same list by two different developers. Let's define ... http://www.footprint.de/fcc/2009/02/five-things/ There has been an amazing many developers joining the presentations about Scala and Wicket at Google UK the day before yesterday. It was a great event and I enjoyed it very much as well. Especially thanks to Cemal for his hospitality! Here are he slides for all interested: Scala @ London Wicket Hope ... http://www.footprint.de/fcc/2009/02/london-wicket-presentation/ I'm happy to announce to present real world Scala with Wicket at the London Wicket Event 18:30-21:30, Wednesday, 4th February, 2009 Google UK, 76, Buckingham Palace Road, Belgrave House, London SW1W 9TQ More information can be found here: http://www.jweekend.co.uk/dev/LWUGReg/ Please don't forget to register! See you there! :-) --- Jan. http://www.footprint.de/fcc/2009/01/scala-at-london-wicket/ Apache Wicket is a cool web framework to develop with. I'm in that business for some time now and I still haven't found any nicer - really! JSF is no match at all, and since I'm doing most of my programming in Scala I'd taken a brief look at Lift. ... http://www.footprint.de/fcc/2008/11/some-wicket-scala/ The first time I looked at the Scala language I just thought "No way!" - years of Java made the syntax unsightly to me and not palatable on first sight. I just didn't want that! But functional programming was intriguing virgin soil. And the more I approached it, the more was ... http://www.footprint.de/fcc/2008/11/praxis-scala/