Akka","\ntitled \u003Ca href=). Although I don’t warm towards Scala as a programming language, Akka seems to be quite a killer\nframework for solving concurrency-related problems. It comes with a Scala and a Java API but the Scala API looks (\nnaturally?) more elegant.",[18,2459,2460,2461,2466,2467,2472],{},"Another very interesting talk\nwas ",[124,2462,2465],{"href":2463,"rel":2464},"http://devoxx.com/display/DV11/The+Disruptor%2C+High+Performance+Inter-Thread+Messaging",[128],"The Disruptor, High Performance Inter-Thread Messaging","\nwhich was scheduled for Monday (during the university days) but was cancelled on short notice. Fortunately that talk was\nrescheduled for Thursday during the lunch break. Michael Barker gave an introduction to\nthe ",[124,2468,2471],{"href":2469,"rel":2470},"http://code.google.com/p/disruptor/",[128],"Disruptor"," framework and walked the audience through an example utilizing it\nin a simple application.",[18,2474,2475,2476,2481],{},"And even more highlights took place on this day: Dick Wall (of Java Posse fame) talked\nabout ",[124,2477,2480],{"href":2478,"rel":2479},"http://devoxx.com/display/DV11/Courage+in+Software+Development",[128],"Courage in Software Development",". This was a\nnon-technical but very inspiring session and I recommend watching it as soon as it’s uploaded to Parleys.",[18,2483,2484,2485,2490,2491,2496,2497,2502],{},"Following the official conference program (in parallel to the BOF sessions) there was a screening of the recently\nreleased ",[124,2486,2489],{"href":2487,"rel":2488},"https://web.archive.org/web/20151116171536/http://www.us.movie.tintin.com:80/",[128],"Tintin movie"," and after that\nthe anniversary party in the nearby ",[124,2492,2495],{"href":2493,"rel":2494},"https://web.archive.org/web/20120528164636/http://noxxantwerp.eu/",[128],"Noxx"," night\nclub – of course with a dancing ",[124,2498,2501],{"href":2499,"rel":2500},"http://kenai.com/projects/duke",[128],"Duke",". 😉",[18,2504,2505,2506,2511,2512,2517],{},"On the fifth and last day we sadly had only time for\nthe ",[124,2507,2510],{"href":2508,"rel":2509},"http://devoxx.com/display/DV11/Technical+Discussion+Panel",[128],"Technical Discussion Panel"," and one more talk. Most of\nus\nchose ",[124,2513,2516],{"href":2514,"rel":2515},"http://devoxx.com/display/DV11/The+Evolution+of+Java++Past%2C+Present%2C+and+Future",[128],"The Evolution of Java: Past, Present, and Future","\nwhich was again very interresting and in which Joshua Bloch retrospectively reviewed changes to the Java language over\ntime and scored them from “horrible” to “best thing since sliced bread” (or something like that).",[38,2519,2521],{"id":2520},"summary","Summary",[18,2523,2524,2525,2530],{},"In summary I really enjoyed Devoxx and learned a lot during these five extraordinary days. My days were quite stuffed\nand I wish I had more time for seeing Antwerp but you have to set priorities. I really recommend going to Devoxx (or to\nthe upcoming ",[124,2526,2529],{"href":2527,"rel":2528},"http://www.devoxx.fr/",[128],"Devoxx France",", if you are a French native speaker) to any serious Java (or\nJVM-based language) developer.",[18,2532,2533],{},"And in case you wondered about the title of this blog post:",[18,2535,2536,2540],{},[124,2537,581],{"href":2538,"rel":2539},"https://www.youtube.com/embed/8To-6VIJZRE",[128]," (Mit dem Laden des Videos akzeptieren Sie die\nDatenschutzerklärung von YouTube.)",{"title":302,"searchDepth":303,"depth":303,"links":2542},[2543,2544,2545],{"id":2334,"depth":303,"text":2335},{"id":2396,"depth":303,"text":2397},{"id":2520,"depth":303,"text":2521},[317],"2011-12-01T10:33:51","Belgium, November 2011. More than three and a half thousand people are surging into Antwerp’s megaplex, the Kinepolis.\\nIt’s Devoxx-time!","https://synyx.de/blog/developers-developers-developers/",{},"/blog/developers-developers-developers",{"title":2211,"description":2221},"blog/developers-developers-developers",[2083,1489],"Belgium, November 2011. More than three and a half thousand people are surging into Antwerp’s megaplex, the Kinepolis. It’s Devoxx-time! Mit dem Laden des Videos akzeptieren Sie die Datenschutzerklärung von…","3doRV3U2v9GTiPWiYBLxrB8R9wuWA1DUkgZwjc_5OPM",{"id":2558,"title":2248,"author":2559,"body":2561,"category":2647,"date":2648,"description":2649,"extension":320,"link":2650,"meta":2651,"navigation":323,"path":2652,"seo":2653,"slug":2565,"stem":2655,"tags":2656,"teaser":2657,"__hash__":2658},"blog/blog/reasons-why-i-go-to-devoxx.md",[2560],"kannegiesser",{"type":11,"value":2562,"toc":2645},[2563,2566,2575,2582,2588,2606,2619,2632],[14,2564,2248],{"id":2565},"reasons-why-i-go-to-devoxx",[18,2567,2568,2569,2574],{},"Yet another year is almost over. One of the reasons I notice this is\nbecause ",[124,2570,2573],{"href":2571,"rel":2572},"http://devoxx.com/display/DV11/Home",[128],"Devoxx"," is coming up again. And – of course – Synyx is going to be there.\nIn the last year four of Synyx’ employees attended the full conference. This year all of last years visitors are going\nagain, and even three more. So there has to be a reason why it’s so popular. This post is going to be about Devoxx and\nwhy I personally enjoy going there. Well… there are several reasons…",[18,2576,2577,2578,2581],{},"A big challenge in our business is ",[205,2579,2580],{},"staying up to date",". There are plenty of books, articles, tweets and blogs to read\nin order know what is going on in the world of software development. And there are even more things to filter out and\nforget (at least for a while) because they don’t apply to you and your daily work. Sometimes you just don’t have enough\ntime for this because you already have loads of work with current technologies in your day-to-day work.",[18,2583,2584,2587],{},[205,2585,2586],{},"The talks at Devoxx keep me in sync with what is going on"," and what is (probably) important. It has pre-selected\ntalks with relevance to Java or me as a Java developer / architect.",[18,2589,2590,2591,2596,2597,2602,2603],{},"Considering last year’s Devoxx there were many things that came to our knowledge and are in use at Synyx now. Some\naffected the ways we work at Synyx (Hello, ",[124,2592,2595],{"href":2593,"rel":2594},"http://www.nealford.com/",[128],"Neal Ford","), some the tools, libraries and\nframeworks we are using now (e. g. ",[124,2598,2601],{"href":2599,"rel":2600},"http://wicket.apache.org/",[128],"Wicket",") and some simply increased our knowledge and\nbrought us up to date (like the “what’s new in” JPA, Spring or Java talks). ",[205,2604,2605],{},"Go see the stuff you can easily use in\nyour daily work.",[18,2607,2608,2609,2614,2615,2618],{},"In addition to the interesting topics of the talk you just have to look at\nthe ",[124,2610,2613],{"href":2611,"rel":2612},"http://devoxx.com/display/DV11/Devoxxians",[128],"Cast",". There are many well-known ",[205,2616,2617],{},"speakers"," which have great\nexperience with their topics and also know, how to present it to the audience. So it’s almost always a pleasure to\nlisten and learn from them because they are the best.",[18,2620,2621,2622,2625,2626,2631],{},"Another big thing that makes me really looking forward to next week is that I’ll spend a ",[205,2623,2624],{},"nice week in Antwerp with so\nmany of my co-workers and other friends",". I’m looking forward visiting ",[124,2627,2630],{"href":2628,"rel":2629},"http://www.kellys.be/",[128],"Kelly’s Irish Pub","\nagain, which is about 100m down the street from our hotel and has been our conference-table almost every evening/night\nlast year (and probably will be again this year).",[18,2633,2634,2635,2640,2641,2644],{},"And the last thing why I’m going there is optimism: As I requested in\nmy ",[124,2636,2639],{"href":2637,"rel":2638},"http://blog.synyx.de/2010/12/devoxx-2010-revisited/",[128],"last post about the conference"," they made the tickets more\nexpensive this year. So I hope they made this because they followed my suggestion to serve ",[205,2642,2643],{},"better coffee"," this\ntime :). Be sure, Synyx will report about it…",{"title":302,"searchDepth":303,"depth":303,"links":2646},[],[1479],"2011-11-10T09:42:44","Yet another year is almost over. One of the reasons I notice this is\\nbecause Devoxx is coming up again. And – of course – Synyx is going to be there.\\nIn the last year four of Synyx’ employees attended the full conference. This year all of last years visitors are going\\nagain, and even three more. So there has to be a reason why it’s so popular. This post is going to be about Devoxx and\\nwhy I personally enjoy going there. Well… there are several reasons…","https://synyx.de/blog/reasons-why-i-go-to-devoxx/",{},"/blog/reasons-why-i-go-to-devoxx",{"title":2248,"description":2654},"Yet another year is almost over. One of the reasons I notice this is\nbecause Devoxx is coming up again. And – of course – Synyx is going to be there.\nIn the last year four of Synyx’ employees attended the full conference. This year all of last years visitors are going\nagain, and even three more. So there has to be a reason why it’s so popular. This post is going to be about Devoxx and\nwhy I personally enjoy going there. Well… there are several reasons…","blog/reasons-why-i-go-to-devoxx",[2083,1489,1492],"Yet another year is almost over. One of the reasons I notice this is because Devoxx is coming up again. And – of course – Synyx is going to be…","q1nNnb-qWWPQ3xGDD2js7mhC58DjQdJwUG3qIhu7ND8",{"id":2660,"title":2661,"author":2662,"body":2663,"category":2756,"date":2757,"description":2758,"extension":320,"link":2759,"meta":2760,"navigation":323,"path":2761,"seo":2762,"slug":2764,"stem":2765,"tags":2766,"teaser":2769,"__hash__":2770},"blog/blog/devoxx-2010-revisited.md","Devoxx 2010 – Revisited using Parleys",[2560],{"type":11,"value":2664,"toc":2754},[2665,2668,2693,2696,2699,2702,2711,2720,2728,2735,2741],[14,2666,2661],{"id":2667},"devoxx-2010-revisited-using-parleys",[18,2669,2670,2671,2675,2676,2681,2682,2681,2687,2692],{},"This year in November three of my colleagues and I were visiting the best Java conference\never – ",[124,2672,2573],{"href":2673,"rel":2674},"http://devoxx.com/display/Devoxx2K10/Home",[128]," in Antwerp (blogs\nhere: ",[124,2677,2680],{"href":2678,"rel":2679},"http://blog.synyx.de/2010/11/devoxx-2010-part-1/",[128],"1",",",[124,2683,2686],{"href":2684,"rel":2685},"http://blog.synyx.de/2010/11/devoxx-university/",[128],"2",[124,2688,2691],{"href":2689,"rel":2690},"http://blog.synyx.de/2010/11/devoxx-2010-part-2/",[128],"3",").\nNow, since more than a month of time went by its time for recall and see, what about Devoxx is still present in my mind.",[18,2694,2695],{},"The fist thing is, that the conference was very very well organized and the location was almost perfect.",[18,2697,2698],{},"The second thing, that is still in my mind is the awful “Coffee” they served. This stuff was not worth to be called\ncoffee and for a Java conference, this seems to be just wrong, guys ;). Please make the tickets to be more expensive\nnext year and get some good coffee-machines for the extra money you earn. The nerds will thank you.",[18,2700,2701],{},"But the most important thing I remember is the quality of talks and speakers. They helped me a lot and improved my work\nalready. I think Synyx invested the money for Devoxx just right, because all of us enjoyed the conference and also have\na whole new set of ideas and tools ready for production now.",[18,2703,2704,2705,2710],{},"Unfortunately, as on every conference I missed some of the great talks I was really interested in because I was busy\nseeing other talks in parallel. As I said, this happens on every conference. But Devoxx got kind of around that\nusing ",[124,2706,2709],{"href":2707,"rel":2708},"http://parleys.com",[128],"Parleys.com",", where you can watch all talks of Devoxx for around 100$ a year. Over the last\ndays, I’ve seen just about all of the ones I could not see because they were conflicting with other talks and it is just\ngreat. It seems its the perfect thing to do in nights around Christmas if you neither have Internet around, nor a TV\naccessible.",[18,2712,2713,2714,2719],{},"Parleys is a fancy webbased application (",[124,2715,2718],{"href":2716,"rel":2717},"http://get.adobe.com/air/",[128],"Adobe Air",") where you can browse through all of the\ntalks and watch them as you were used to at the Devoxx’ big cinema-Screens: They offer the video of the speaker next to\nthe slides as well as the demo-videos in a synchronous manner. You get also some nice options like enlarging one of the\nvideos, rate them, and so on.",[18,2721,2722,2723,2727],{},"But the best feature is definitely the “download” feature, since this allows you to watch the talks offline at your\ngrandmothers using the Desktop-Client. By the way, on my Linux machines I could not install this bastard using Firefox\nand ",[124,2724,2725],{"href":2725,"rel":2726},"http://parleys.com/desktop/",[128]," but i had to wget the .air file as to be found in the pages sourcecode and then run\nthe installer manually using a pre-installed Adobe Air.",[18,2729,2730,2731,2734],{},"So over the last days I’ve seen some great talks from Devoxx 2010 which I could not attend at the conference and I\ndefinitely shouldn’t have missed. Also, if you were not at Devoxx this is a perfect thing to get some of the feeling and\nknowledge at a nice price. Parleys also helped me a lot the last weeks at work where we\nintroduced ",[124,2732,2601],{"href":2599,"rel":2733},[128]," as the frontend technology of a new application. I could hand my\ncolleagues the 3 hour University-Talk about Wicket as an introduction which turned out to be great since they could\nstart using it right away afterwards.",[18,2736,2737],{},[30,2738],{"alt":2739,"src":2740},"\"Talk in Parleys\"","https://media.synyx.de/uploads//2010/12/devoxx_revisited.jpg",[18,2742,2743,2744,941,2747,1863,2750,2753],{},"The downside of Parleys in my opinion is the way too fancy Adobe Air style of it. As this might be great for designers\nand “regulars”, I’d rather prefer more usability and performance while browsing and searching the videos over some nice\nanimations and effects. The developers of Parleys should consider to include some fast and non-fancy search-able and\nfilterable list of all talks with options like ",[1834,2745,2746],{},"queue to download",[1834,2748,2749],{},"mark as to be watched",[1834,2751,2752],{},"watch",". I really hope\nto see these features announced when we’re coming back to Devoxx 2011.",{"title":302,"searchDepth":303,"depth":303,"links":2755},[],[1479],"2010-12-28T17:46:47","This year in November three of my colleagues and I were visiting the best Java conference\\never – Devoxx in Antwerp (blogs\\nhere: 1,2,3).\\nNow, since more than a month of time went by its time for recall and see, what about Devoxx is still present in my mind.","https://synyx.de/blog/devoxx-2010-revisited/",{},"/blog/devoxx-2010-revisited",{"title":2661,"description":2763},"This year in November three of my colleagues and I were visiting the best Java conference\never – Devoxx in Antwerp (blogs\nhere: 1,2,3).\nNow, since more than a month of time went by its time for recall and see, what about Devoxx is still present in my mind.","devoxx-2010-revisited","blog/devoxx-2010-revisited",[1489,1492,2767,2768],"parleys","wicket","This year in November three of my colleagues and I were visiting the best Java conference ever – Devoxx in Antwerp (blogs here: 1,2,3). Now, since more than a month…","2q1f9aI8s6IQ0sxryqynGHaJNhc6eD_d5-mQgdXOj5M",{"id":2772,"title":2773,"author":2774,"body":2775,"category":2819,"date":2820,"description":2821,"extension":320,"link":2822,"meta":2823,"navigation":323,"path":2824,"seo":2825,"slug":2779,"stem":2826,"tags":2827,"teaser":2828,"__hash__":2829},"blog/blog/devoxx-2010-part-2.md","Devoxx 2010 – Part 2",[2560],{"type":11,"value":2776,"toc":2817},[2777,2780,2783,2796,2799,2802,2805,2811,2814],[14,2778,2773],{"id":2779},"devoxx-2010-part-2",[18,2781,2782],{},"So this is the second part of my experiences with Devoxx 2010. I’ll still stick to not writing about the talks in\ndetail but telling my thoughts as a “first time visitor”.",[18,2784,2785,2786,2790,2791,2795],{},"So day three to five at Devoxx were “Conference” days which have – in opposite to the\nUniversity-Talks ",[124,2787,2789],{"href":2684,"rel":2788},[128],"Florian"," and I mentioned earlier – much shorter\ntalks. This had the trade-off ",[124,2792,2794],{"href":2678,"rel":2793},[128],"I mentioned before",": You have many\nswitches of topics between the talks which actually made it sometimes kind of hard to even remember at the evening what\nI saw in the morning. But what I have to admit is, that even if there were more talks a day the quality of them was\nexcellent. There were so many brilliant Speakers (Josh Bloch, Neil Ford and Matt Reible just to mention very few of\nthem) and almost all talks were as well interesting and entertaining.",[18,2797,2798],{},"So we had a lot of fun listening and I personally can say I am full (actually more than full) of new ideas and\ninspiration about what to do next and how to adopt or use things that were talked about at Synyx.",[18,2800,2801],{},"Another thing that I recognized is, that many many of the ideas, tools, frameworks etc that were showed at the different\ntalks are already in production at Synyx, which confirms us and shows that we’re on the right road. But of course there\nis still a lot of work to do, a lot of code to write and a lot of and ways to improve ourselves. Well, this was one of\nthe reasons why we’ve been visiting Devoxx anyway.",[18,2803,2804],{},"A downside of the Conference days was, that there were about 5 times as much visitors than in the first two days, which\nmade the rooms and hall really crowded and you had to wait often (getting in/out of room or going to the restrooms).\nDuring some really popular talks people (including us ;-)) had to sit at stairs or at the floor to be able listening to\nthem.",[18,2806,2807],{},[30,2808],{"alt":2809,"src":2810},"\"A lot of people\"","https://media.synyx.de/uploads//2010/11/devoxx-bloch-crowded.jpg",[18,2812,2813],{},"I think what could be improved for the next time are the “flows” of people during the breaks. Maybe only allow people\nleaving the rooms at the lower exits and enter them at the upper ones or manage them another smart way. And maybe they\ncould have some overflow-rooms that can be dynamically used if a room gets too crowded.",[18,2815,2816],{},"To sum things up it was a great time we had at Devoxx 2010 and I’d love to come back again since this conference is\nreally the best – at least the best I’ve been so far. Keep up the good work, we really enjoyed it!",{"title":302,"searchDepth":303,"depth":303,"links":2818},[],[1479],"2010-11-20T14:11:02","So this is the second part of my experiences with Devoxx 2010. I’ll still stick to not writing about the talks in\\ndetail but telling my thoughts as a “first time visitor”.","https://synyx.de/blog/devoxx-2010-part-2/",{},"/blog/devoxx-2010-part-2",{"title":2773,"description":2782},"blog/devoxx-2010-part-2",[2083,1489],"So this is the second part of my experiences with Devoxx 2010. I’ll still stick to not writing about the talks in detail but telling my thoughts as a “first…","bdOAG0IRzkdVC1t5uzzFu3CGKGq789X_iXcYF7kNrm0",{"id":2831,"title":2832,"author":2833,"body":2835,"category":2911,"date":2912,"description":2913,"extension":320,"link":2914,"meta":2915,"navigation":323,"path":2916,"seo":2917,"slug":2839,"stem":2919,"tags":2920,"teaser":2923,"__hash__":2924},"blog/blog/devoxx-university.md","Devoxx University",[2834],"hopf",{"type":11,"value":2836,"toc":2909},[2837,2840,2848,2861,2888,2903,2906],[14,2838,2832],{"id":2839},"devoxx-university",[18,2841,2842,2843,2847],{},"As the university days on Devoxx are nearly finished I’d like to summarize some of the more interesting talks that\nhappened during the first two days. Marc already\nwrote ",[124,2844,2846],{"href":2678,"rel":2845},[128],"some words on the conference itself"," so I will focus on the\ntalks.",[18,2849,2850,2851,2854,2855,2860],{},"Monday started off with ",[124,2852,2595],{"href":2593,"rel":2853},[128]," talking about Productive Programmers. The topics he\ncovered are quite basic but nevertheless important to know for every developer. The first part showed how to optimize\nyour daily work, circling around the terms automation, acceleration, canonicality and focus. Some useful tools and\ntechniques were presented e.g. an ",[124,2856,2859],{"href":2857,"rel":2858},"http://www.mousefeed.com/",[128],"Eclipse plugin for learning keyboard shortcuts"," that\nsounds really nice: Every time you are using the mouse to navigate or select an action a message is displayed that tells\nyou how to do the same thing just with the keyboard. I’d be glad to have a plugin like this for Netbeans! During the\nsecond part a lot of best practices for coding were covered, always good to keep those in mind. All in all a very\ninspiring talk and a good start of the week.",[18,2862,2863,2864,2869,2870,2875,2876,2881,2882,2887],{},"For the afternoon session I chose ",[124,2865,2868],{"href":2866,"rel":2867},"http://www.mongodb.org/",[128],"MongoDB",", the document oriented database. Being already\nfamiliar with the basic concepts from ",[124,2871,2874],{"href":2872,"rel":2873},"http://blog.synyx.de/2010/08/froscon-2010/",[128],"FrOSCon"," and several podcasts I’ve\nbeen especially interested in seeing it in action using Java. Two basic approaches were introduced: The raw Java driver\nthat is developed by the MongoDB team lets you work on quite a low level handling Maps of Strings and Objects. A more\nsophisticated approach is to use the community developed ",[124,2877,2880],{"href":2878,"rel":2879},"http://code.google.com/p/morphia/",[128],"Morphia","-driver which\nallows to annotate POJOs just like when using JPA. I wouldn’t have expected to see such a nice abstraction for MongoDB\nyet, definitely something to keep an eye on. I am curious if ",[124,2883,2886],{"href":2884,"rel":2885},"http://www.springsource.org/spring-data",[128],"Spring Data"," can\noffer something similar in the near future.",[18,2889,2890,2891,2896,2897,2902],{},"On tuesday I had to get up extra early: the Scala lab offered by Dick Wall of the ",[124,2892,2895],{"href":2893,"rel":2894},"http://www.javaposse.com/",[128],"Javaposse","\nand Bill Venners was scheduled for the BOF rooms which only fit around 50 people. Definitely the highlight of the\nconference so far as with only few attendees there was a lot of time for excercises and support by these two experts. I\nhope I can start using Scala at work soon, ",[124,2898,2901],{"href":2899,"rel":2900},"http://www.scalatest.org/",[128],"ScalaTest"," is supposed to be a good starting\npoint for learning the language without having to integrate it in a production system.",[18,2904,2905],{},"Back to Java in the afternoon: Emmanuel Bernard demonstrated new features in Hibernate and JPA 2. Besides the typesafe\nCriteria API it was really nice to see the fluent APIs used for Hibernate Search. Seems like Hibernate Search can free\nyou from a lot of programming work when integrating Lucene and Hibernate.",[18,2907,2908],{},"Looking forward to the rest of the conference which will surely bring more interesting talks during the rest of the\nweek!",{"title":302,"searchDepth":303,"depth":303,"links":2910},[],[1479],"2010-11-17T09:13:24","As the university days on Devoxx are nearly finished I’d like to summarize some of the more interesting talks that\\nhappened during the first two days. 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