Introduction to Code Club Following on from my Ignite talk at Devoxx UK 2016, I want to introduce Code Club and share my experiences as a volunteer for those that may be interested but didn't attend the conference. Code Club is a non-profit organization here in the UK that aims at creating a volunteer-led after-school coding club for 9-11 year olds in every primary school across the UK. Each club typically runs for one hour after school, and meets up every week. Coding is featuring more and more on the school curriculum these days, and running a Code Club is…
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Aligned with the proud growth of the Brazilian Tech Community was QCon 2016 in Sao Paulo. Many software professionals worldwide, and Tribers from Tomitribe including Amelia Eiras, Daniel Cunha, David Blevins and Thiago Veronezi, came to attend this practitioner-driven conference to gain heaps of knowledge and share their support for a strong developer community. QCon is not just a Java conference. The Brazilian Tech Community warmly welcomes Conference attendees from all over the world and technologies. QCon-SP had a good selection on a variety of topics; these sessions were directed towards managers, designers, operations and developers. We had the opportunity…
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Intro What a great week of Java. First there was the community driven conference of JavaLand in the theme park Phantasialand in Brühl near Cologne, then there was the Java User Group Darmstadt meeting with speaker David Blevins @dblevins, accompanied by Stephen Chin @steveonjava and Sebastian Daschner @DaschnerS. I went to both, there is already nice coverage on JavaLand 2016, therefore I will write about the later. JUG-DA attracted David to come to Darmstadt and give an interesting talk on hidden gems of Java EE and the role of functional programming therein. David's talk had the main part of the…
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Last week, I visited the JavaLand conference at Brühl in the Phantasialand amusement park. Going to JavaLand for the third time and JavaLand being hosted for the third year, you can call me a JavaLand veteran. Nevertheless, this was a very special JavaLand for me because I just became a member of Tomitribe only one week before. So this was a very good occasion to not only learn new stuff, but also meet and celebrate with other members of the Tribe such as the incomparable Amelia Eiras, David Blevins, and Andy Gumbrecht. Besides celebrating, I also visited some very interesting…
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Last week, the Tenth edition of Jfokus took place in sunny Stockholm, Sweden (really, believe me it was sunny). The conference was three days long, with the first day dedicated to Tutorials and the next couple of days to Conference Sessions. The numbers are impressive. It had over 1700 attendees, making it the second largest Java conference in Europe, right after Devoxx Belgium. Tomitribe was happy to sponsor the event. Literally, every attendee was a Triber with the Jfokus / Tomitribe lanyard. If like me, you don't know what a lanyard is (at least the English word), it's the strap…
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DevoxxUK is next week and we couldn't be more excited. Why? Oh, let me count the ways. We're a Sponsor It will be our first time as an official sponsor of a conference! How's that for a start? A proud little milestone for us. If you haven't been to a Devoxx yet and you have your pass, you're in for a treat. If you don't have a pass, get one. You won't regret it. My first was Devoxx Belgium in 2012. Devoxx UK will be my fifth Devoxx event. Does that tell you anything? Norm is Back We unfortunately had…
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Don't miss Tomitribe next week at Jfokus this February 3rd - 5th in Stockholm, Sweden. JFokus is one of the largest Java developer events in Europe - 1500 attendees, over 50 conference presentations with topics ranging from Java SE & Java EE, Frontend & Web. Android & Mobile, Continuous Delivery & DevOps, Internet of Things, Cloud & Big Data, Future & Trends, Alt.JVM Languages like Scala, Clojure & many more. The tribe will be there speaking on Apache TomEE, showing how developers can achieve simple and lightweight applications on Tomcat leveraging Java EE technologies. The session will be Wednesday, 9am…
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Don't miss Tomitribe at Devoxx 2013. I'll be there presenting some of the recent accomplishments in the EJB 3.2 spec released as part of Java EE 7. As a spec revision largely focused on API fixes, there were a couple changes with big impact! Prepare to have your view of EJB turned upside down. EJB 3.2 and Beyond - Wednesday November 13th, 17:50 We will be there with shirts and stickers to give away, so meet us at the session or catch up with us in the hacking area. If you see us, please do come and say hi! There's…
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If you are in the Bay Area, stop by Mountain View tonight to see David Blevin discuss TomEE at the Silicon Valley Java Users Group (SVJUG). For more information and to RSVP, click here. There are a limited number of seats available. Here's the talk description, but more important than the presentation you'll have a chance to ask David your questions after the presentation: "Apache TomEE is the Java EE 6 Web Profile certified version of Apache Tomcat and combines the simplicity of Tomcat with the power of Java EE. The first half of this session introduces TomEE and shows…
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