fabriziogiudici's blog
Using Maven for more than development
Posted by fabriziogiudici on January 23, 2012 at 5:00 PM EST
I think that Maven is a great tool for development. But it can be used for more. For instance, I've just prepared things so that starting from a clean room you can try out my lightweight CMS, NorthernWind, by just invoking a couple of commands.
Actors in Java
Posted by fabriziogiudici on January 4, 2012 at 2:53 PM EST
Recently there has been a renewed interest into the Actor programming model. The Actor Model actually comes from the '70s, but as far as I'm aware it has been used only in a very limited subset of industrial projects outside the area of telecoms.
What appears to be the first interactive Google Doodle
Posted by fabriziogiudici on November 23, 2011 at 7:34 AM EST
I might be wrong, but Google just published what appears to be, at least to my knowledge (I could have missed some other in the past) the first interactive Doodle. It's in honor of Stanisław Lem, sci-fi writer of Solaris fame (please, if you have time, watch the Tarkovskij's movie rather than - or in addition to - the Soderberg
My Devoxx '11 slides (Maven + Android) at SlideShare
Posted by fabriziogiudici on November 23, 2011 at 7:13 AM EST
Monday evening I was back home from Devoxx '11. Excellent conference and excellent people, I'm so happy I was back to it after two years. I'm full of sensations and things to think about for the next weeks.
Back to Devoxx!
Posted by fabriziogiudici on November 16, 2011 at 4:34 AM EST
2011, and I'm back to my favourite conference. In the past two years I attended JavaOne and Jazoon, but for different reasons I wasn't able to go to Antwerpen. A number of things have changed in the meantime. Sun is no more here, but I already absorbed the shock at JavaOne 2010. Devoxx is held in November since a couple of years (previously it was in December).
Glitches with my project web sites
Posted by fabriziogiudici on November 10, 2011 at 7:20 AM EST
The past summer I announced that I was going to move all my websites to a new CMS, and actually blueBill has been moved since that. Unfortunately I had some trivial problems while migrating the others, and then a number of accidents, the latest one being a major flood in the town where I live, stole me the time to complete the operation.
Looking beyond TIOBE
Posted by fabriziogiudici on November 9, 2011 at 7:37 AM EST
The last page on the latest issue of IEEE Spectrum attracted my attention since it was about the popularity of programming languages. The page was made of four pictures taken from langpop.com, which makes popularity figures out of multiple sources:
Thanks, Vaadin
Posted by fabriziogiudici on October 28, 2011 at 11:25 AM EDT
I've just left a meeting where the PM congratulated the team because the customer accepted a product release that was made with three weeks in advance of the original plan. First, thank to the developers' team. Second, thank to the good development process (people and process are always the important things, more than technology).
Infrastructure changes for my projects
Posted by fabriziogiudici on September 15, 2011 at 4:57 AM EDT
A number of things are being changed in the infrastructure of Tidalwave projects:
NetBeans Platform Certified Class in San Francisco, right after J1
Posted by fabriziogiudici on September 9, 2011 at 7:48 AM EDT
Geertjan Wielenga (Oracle) and Toni Eppleton (NetBeans Dream Team) are going to give a certified training course about the NetBeans Platform. Please have a look here for more information and online registration.
