There will be a set of hands-on sessions with JVM languages for EC Tech that I will be hosting for this coming season. What happened was, I was looking up a new TV diet called the GOLO diet when I ran across the GOLO language. After reading about it, I realized there was a lot of […]
Obtained a room in downtown Eau Claire over lunch to practice giving presentations (since I don’t do that much anymore) via a Laymen’s Java Concurrency Intro. At a very high level presented threads, concurrency, locks, synchronization and real world analogies to these mechanisms.
Hands on Java Lambdas with some online tutorials. Breaking in the new Mac. A general Java code learning session at my work site with a few interested parties who wanted to see some Groovy too and share some Scala/Clojure. Thanks to the Milwaukee Colectivo Coffee suppliers and my workplace!
It seems to me we are at this strange crossroads again for putting developers in a box, or opening the doors to allow them creative and utensil freedom. I would say nowdays, we are leaning as an industry towards less freedom and more box. That was the feeling I got when I started to delve […]
For the most recent ECTech Meetup meeting this morning was a quick breakfast techfast (and I was running late) and thoughts about big data and NoSQL databases. Consensus seems that everyone wants to use a big data engine, but no one can really find a reason to. Reasons cited: How to integrate into existing applications? […]
EC Tech meeting for Build Servers went with a hitch as I tried to get a BigBlueButton server up and going for collaboration. This software is open source meeting/record software, but as with all open source the price to pay is with time and inconvenience. Two things that take a lot of time to do: […]
Tonight is the next installment of *hands on* for our local group. With brewskies and Crown Royal. There will be testing exercises and some TDD kata, and discussing the efficacy of TDD in coding with today’s modern methodologies. A lot of you have noted there has been a (predictable) backlash against TDD. My earliest […]