Devoxx 2011 – I’ve been in Paradise

Friday

18

Nov 2011

Devoxx 2011 is over – we have left the paradise.

I had – again – the luck to attend and it was an awesome experience. I’m really thankful that Stephan and his team is doing this works. We love you guys!

So – let me try to give you a very brief overview on what I found most interesting at Devoxx 2011.

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JDK 7 Features: Project Coin Exception Improvements

Thursday

17

Mar 2011

In this post I’ll present the new features in JDK7/Java 7 regarding exceptions, namely “multi-catch and final rethrow” and the “try-with-resources” of Project Coin. The other four Project Coin improvements were already discussed in an post a few days ago.

So, let’s dive into the topic:

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JDK 7 Features: Project Coin

Sunday

13

Mar 2011

Last recently I did a talk about the some of the new features in JDK7 or Java 7 (Project Coin, Concurrency Utils and InvokeDynamic) at the freshly founded Koblenz Java User Group . I’ll present the content of this presentation in written form in a series of  three or four blog post over the next few weeks or so.
In this post I’ll start with the first four features of “Project Coin”.
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Devoxx 2010

Friday

19

Nov 2010

I was very lucky to attend the Devoxx 2010 (the conference part) this year. So this is reason enought, to blog about the thing I found most valuable to report:

The discussion panel

This was a discussion panel lead by Joe Nuxoll (with Dick Wall as keeper of the minutes) between Josh Bloch, Mark Reinhold, Antonio Goncalves, Stephen Colebourne, Jürgen Hoeller and Bill Venners. They did a fanominal job in covering up for James Goslings cancellation (get well soon James!).

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