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Dallas TechFest 2009 Recap…

Monday, June 22, 2009

After close to 6 months of planning, Dallas TechFest 2009 is… “in the books.”  Planning and running an all-day tech conference with 40 presentations, 400+ (ok 401) attendees, X great sponsors, and Java and .NET developers is *totally* exhausting.  I took Saturday off to relax and now I’m back on my laptop writing this review.
First, [...]

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Modular Java with OSGi and Spring

Saturday, March 28, 2009

I was lucky enough to be asked to preform a technical review of “Modular Java: Creating Flexible Applications with OSGi and Spring“.  It’s Craig Walls‘ next book and it’s being published by the Pragmatic Programmers.
Craig does a great job of making the case for modular Java development with OSGi.  He covers why we need to [...]

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I’m giving a Java FX talk…

Friday, April 11, 2008

I have volunteered to give a talk on Java FX. Why? Hmm… Let me explain…
There is this great new Java user group that started here in Dallas back in January 2008. You can read the background on the group via these email announcements…
Sidenote:
Derek, if you’re listening, it sure would be nice [...]

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Ant vs Maven Argument…

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Nope, you aren’t getting one here. I’ve argued Ant over Maven dozens of times in my life. Most recently, last night. But, I’m not gonna start the argument again.
That said, my friend Pete has a post on his blog trying to pull me offsides again. He was the cause, last [...]

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