First of all, Ill have to report a bug in James’ blog post. We only got $23 for the worst bug report award.=) Then I would like to thank for the fun competition James set up, it was really a learning experience and in retrospect I would maybe have put even more effort in the [...]

This post is cross-posted at my personal blog. Jeannette Wing, CMU, Frontiers in Research and Education in Computing Jeanette said that there has been a paradigm shift. Not just about computing’s metal tools (transistors and wires), but also our mental tools (abstraction and methods) Is this really a new paradigm shift? Maybe for the National [...]

In order to embrace the true Christmas spirit, I thought I’d share a few goodies from the Devoxx conference that took place in Antwerp, Belgium in mid December. Devoxx is the former JavaPolis that has changed name due to trademarking issues with Sun. Nonetheless, it’s still the worlds largest independent Java conference, where the 3200 [...]

This year at JAOO all 5 keynote speakers were language designers so there was a clear trend talking about new languages, for example Scala, F# and Fortress. What motivates this is the trend toward more parallel computing with more cores per machine and also to increasing popularity in cloud computing. That is, parallel computing applies [...]

As most of you know Jayway is one of the organizers of Øredev. Knowing that, and knowing how much we love our own conference, you might not trust our judgment in this review. We beg to differ, and ensure you that Øredev is just as enjoyable as we describe it in this article. The Conference [...]