The JavaZone conference has just
become one of my favorite conferences, EVAH. Check out this
trailer they put together, entitled "Java 4-Ever". Yes, Microsofties,
you should watch, too. Just leave off the evangelism for a moment and enjoy the humor
of it. You've had your own fun over the years, too, or need I remind you of the Matrix
video with Gates and Ballmer and the blue pill/red pill? ;-)

This video brings several things to mind:

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By now, the Twitter messages have spread, and the word is out: at Uberconf this year,
I did a session ("Pragmatic Architecture"), which I've done at other venues
before, but this time we made it into a 180-minute workshop instead of a 90-minute
session, and the workshop included breaking the room up into small (10-ish, which
was still a teensy bit too big) groups and giving each one an "architectural
kata" to work on.

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By now, the Twitter messages have spread, and the word is out: at Uberconf this year,
I did a session ("Pragmatic Architecture"), which I've done at other venues
before, but this time we made it into a 180-minute workshop instead of a 90-minute
session, and the workshop included breaking the room up into small (10-ish, which
was still a teensy bit too big) groups and giving each one an "architectural
kata" to work on.

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Code
Katas are small, relatively simple exercises designed to give you a problem to
try and solve. I like to use them as a way to get my feet wet and help write something
more interesting than "Hello World" but less complicated than "The
Internet's Next Killer App".

 

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Code
Katas are small, relatively simple exercises designed to give you a problem to
try and solve. I like to use them as a way to get my feet wet and help write something
more interesting than "Hello World" but less complicated than "The
Internet's Next Killer App".

 

Read more ...

Code
Katas are small, relatively simple exercises designed to give you a problem to
try and solve. I like to use them as a way to get my feet wet and help write something
more interesting than "Hello World" but less complicated than "The
Internet's Next Killer App".

 

Read more ...

Code
Katas are small, relatively simple exercises designed to give you a problem to
try and solve. I like to use them as a way to get my feet wet and help write something
more interesting than "Hello World" but less complicated than "The
Internet's Next Killer App".

 

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Miguel
de Icaza wrote up a good response to the SDTimes
article in which both of us were quoted, and I thought it might serve to flesh
out the discussion a bit more to chime in with my part in the piece.

First and foremost, Miguel notes:

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Apparently April will be a pretty Florida-heavy month for me; on top of the No Fluff
Just Stuff conference in Tampa on April 16th/17th/18th, I'm going to hit three Floridian
user groups shortly therafter:

• West Palm user group on Tuesday 4/27/2010
• Tampa Architecture Group on Wednesday 4/28/2010
• Pensacola SQL Server User Group on Thursday 4/29/2010

... before I head up to Reston, VA for the NFJS show there. Should be a fun time,
seeing how the other corner of the US lives.....

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Let's see if this
one holds: Gartner says that by 2012, Android will have a larger percentage of
the worldwide mobile phone market than the iPhone, 14.5 % against 13.7%.

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