Month: November 2007
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If we can do this, anything is possible
Holy cow. We did it! Three months ago a couple of guys in a bar were talking about how cool it would be to do a Java conference in Dublin. Many sleepless nights and countless emails later, 350 people attended the inaugural IJTC! The response was overwhelming. We had a world class lineup, the logistics […]
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Opening night
Yesterday’s event worked out really well. We had about 100 people in the theater take part in opening evening. My welcome speech was nothing to be worried about – I forgot half of what I was going to say, but that’s OK – it just gives me some opening words this morning. Joel’s keynote presentation […]
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Tonight is the night!
I am about to head off to the IJTC. It’s an incredible feeling to know that we have managed to put together a conference in only 3 months! We are expecting well over 200 delegates this evening, and even though I am MCing the event this evening, I am not in the least bit nervous. […]
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Unit testing with JAXB
I hit a snag when unit testing some code that makes use of JAXB generated objects. JAXB does not generate setters for collections 😛 This means that you cannot do the following: Parent parent = new Parent(); List<Child> children = new ArrayList<Child>(); children.add(new Child()); parent.setChildren(children); // there’s no setter method! Instead, the following will do […]
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Rich UI -> Component Based
A client of mine is developing a web application. The framework decision was made up front – Spring Webflow/MVC. I like Webflow. Its state machine based continuations concept is very cool. It lets you easy deal with things like back buttons, switching into a side piece of application flow (think needing to log in before […]