In my search for new frameworks to try out, I came across a little web framework called Wicket. The idea to really separate the logic from the markup appealed to me, as well as the fact that you wouldn’t need as much JavaScript anymore. So I went looking for a book about the subject and [...]

I had heard a lot about Maven and it sounded like a nice addition to the toolbox of a developer and thus I decided to dive into the subject. I quickly found the book “Maven: The definitive guide” by Tim O’Brien, John Casey, Brian Fox, Bruce Snyder, Jason Van Zyl, and Eric Redmond. This review/summary [...]

Keynote – Agile@Atlassian – How do we do it?
Good keynote by Sherali Karimov that not only told how Atlassian employs agility, but also gave some pointers on how to implement it in your own company. (Unfortunately I can’t find any slides, but their website seems to offer some of the same content.)
Het modelleren van een [...]

From the NL-JUG newsletter:

In het IT-landschap anno 2009 kunnen we eigenlijk niet meer om Cloud Computing heen. Het is te gemakkelijk om Cloud Computing af te doen als een hype, al was het alleen maar om de lange aanlooptijd en de mate waarin Cloud Computing inmiddels al wordt toegepast. Nu is de definitie van Cloud [...]

From the NL-JUG newsletter:

De Java community is rijk aan webframeworks. Elk jaar duiken er een aantal nieuwe, veelbelovende frameworks op. IPROFS organiseert een openbare kennissessie omtrent twee frameworks die steeds meer in de belangstelling staan: Wicket en Lift.

Wicket probeert de impedance mismatch tussen stateless HTTP en een statefull GUI op te lossen door de componenten [...]

This year’s eclipse forum at Mainz was in cooperation with JAX and SOA. So that sounds great right? If you would purchase the main conference ticket you were allowed to enter all three of them!!! The catch here is that only the Eclipse forum was (almost) entirely in English. JAX was mainly in German [...]

About fifteen people, including some men, were present at the IProfs
office in Utrecht for the Portal workshop. After some drinks and a plate
of mexican food we took our laptops to the presentation room. Marco
Beelen is a software architect working for IProfs and even portal exam
leader at JavaBlackBelt, so he has quite some knowledge about portals.
He [...]

This event has been postponed until after the summer.

We are proud to announce our next event: JBoss Seam by Lunatech tag-team duo, Peter Hilton and Nicolas Leroux.
JBoss Seam is a powerful new application framework for building next generation Web 2.0 applications by unifying and integrating technologies such as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), Java [...]

JAOO Aarhus is the premier european software conference focused on engaging the hearts and minds of developers.

The format for JAOO Aarhus 2009 provides a unique combination of 3 full conference days where attendees can learn and mingle with international speakers coupled with 3 days of tutorials delivered by leading experts and authors in software development.

Tutorials: [...]

We are proud to announce our next event - a Portal Workshop - by Marco Beelen.

Marco is one of the lead-developers on the first publicly available portal implementation in Europe of Websphere Portal, he is examleader for the portal exam at JavaBlackBelt. Currently he is employed as software-architect at IProfs.

A portal is a framework for [...]