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September 6, 2009

Globalcode’s Casual Class: JAVAEE 6

By Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

This is a little late, but anyway…

Two weeks ago I attend one more of the Globalcode‘s Casual Class‘es. This one was about JAVAEE 6 and the main technologies that will be part of it when it comes out – apparently very soon.

I don’t have many pictures because I’m very smart and let my mobile’s battery run out… but let’s go through a few of the ones I got and talk about the contents of this event.

Preparations

Preparations

The event was split in a few individual topics, among them: JSF 2.0, JAX-RS, EJB 3.1 and JPA 2.0. Each one had different presenters, all of them great speakers! =)

JSF 2.0

JSF 2.0

JSF 2.0 was presented by Yara Senger and Alberto “Spock” Lemos. They mentioned some changes that are coming to JSF, and used a small demo application, SCRUM Toys, to explain how they got involved into actually using the new features.

JPA 2.0

JPA 2.0

Melissa Vilela spoke about the new features coming in JPA 2.0. There are a lot of nice things. Among them, the new Criteria API is not. To be brutally honest, that thing is ridiculously complex. It is clearly lacking some usage of the KISS principle.

Then there was a presentation about REST, more specifically JAX-RS. (no pictures, sorry). Nothing really new here, just the fact that the API, which was already done and available, is going to be part of JAVAEE 6.

EJB 3.1

EJB 3.1

The last topic was EJB 3.1. Like with EJB 3.0, things are moving towards a simpler development model, and this is what was presented. Nice, simplifications to EJBs are always welcome! =)

After that, Pizza! uhu! My only complain this time is that the technical sessions took longer than usual, and I was really hungry in the end! But it was well worth the time =)

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July 25, 2009

Globalcode’s Casual Class: Robotics

By Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Yesterday held the seventh edition of the Globalcode‘s Casual Class, this time featuring Robotics. Like before, this is a meeting that includes technology, pizza and beer! Can’t get much better than that =)

Myself at the event

Myself at the event

This time, the event was mainly presented by Vinicius Senger, Paulo (not me =p), and Alberto “Spock”. They talked a lot about robotics (of course) and electronics. Although I don’t think I will be using any of this information soon, it was very fun!

Vinicius Senger Opening the talks

Vinicius Senger Opening the talks

One of the biggest topics was Arduino, and “Open Source” Hardware. This is basically a controller board that you can build yourself at home, with very cheap components.

Paulo talking abour ATmega and Arduino

Paulo talking about ATmega and Arduino

They also did some nice demonstrations, and explained how Arduino works, going a little bit in depth. I can’t say I understood too much here, but it certainly got me curious to find out more. I hope to find some time to at least play a little bit with some ideas. If it happens, I’ll post my discoveries here for sure!

For example, they showed the Egg-Painting robot running, which they had mentioned in the previous edition of the Casual Class.

One of the crazy demonstrations

One of the crazy demonstrations

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June 28, 2009

Casual Class #006

By Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

This last Friday, the 26th of June, held the 6th Globalcode‘s Casual Class. It consisted of news they brought from the JavaOne, and a presentation on web application Archictectures – which they had presented at JavaOne as well.

There were a lot of nice little things presented to us, but overall talking to people was the most interesting part of the event. As can be seen in the picture bellow, the size of the event was well suited for that.

The Audience

The Audience

I went with some people from the office, so here they are:

Dani, Erica and Claudinho

Dani, Erica and Claudinho

Iara Senger, Vinicius Senger and Alberto Lemos were presenting. Nice to meet them again!

Alberto, Iara and Vinicius

Alberto, Iara and Vinicius

Also, they have already planned the next Casual Class, which will be about Robotics. To ilustrate, they had a few toys there. One of them was a machine that paints eggs!

Egg Painting Machine

Egg Painting Machine

At the end, Wine and Beer! Way to go! And I will attend the next one for sure =)

Erica, Dani, Claudinho

Erica, Dani, Claudinho

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May 23, 2009

OpenTDC 2009

By Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

This last Sunday I went to the OpenTDC event, organized by Globalcode. It took place at the Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, down here in São Paulo, Brazil. Like the one that happened last year, it was very nice.

The event started with Bruno Sousa talking about Open Source development and the Community. In the end, he introduced Juggy to the audience – don’t ask, see the picture bellow.

Bruno & Juggy!

Bruno & Juggy!

Shortly after that, we had a very, VERY interesting presentation on robotics. Made me want to learn electronics – really! I want to play with those things!! And you can somehow control it with Java! What?!

Robo-Java

Robo-Java

Then there was a short break for coffee and networking – I used a little bit more time than planned, and lost the beginning of the next presentation: J2EE architectures with JBoss Seam, JSF and/or Spring. No problem, I didn’t lost the most interesting part which probably was the second half of the presentation – great job, by Vinicius Senger and Alberto “Spock”!

Archictectures

Archictectures

Finally, time to lunch! We (and a huge number of people from the event) went to the local Burger King. Big queue and healthy-less food – but we do this kind of thing sometimes, right? The only drawback: I forgot to take pictures there…

The afternoon featured nice talks on Agile, Java and Digital TV, and a panel on Java FX, GWT and Flex. This last one was specially interesting, although I find strange to have GWT here, since it is totally different from the other two. JavaFX and Flex are clearly competitors, but not GWT.

JavaFX, Flex and GWT

JavaFX, Flex and GWT

Want to see more pictures? See these links to official ones:

In summary, the day was very good. I learned new things, and met some nice people again. I look forward to the next one!

Wait! Before signing off, here is a picture of some people from the office:

Fábio, Danielle and Diego

Fábio, Danielle and Diego

Bye for now!

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