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The Heart of Ireland

kinabalu — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:51:46 +0000

As many of you know, I’ve been in Ireland since last Saturday June 5th, 2010. I was invited here to speak at The Irish Software Show. Both of my talks were on Thursday about Apache Wicket, and each of them were well received. Our beginner talk was a big draw, and I [...]

Speaking this week in Dublin, Ireland

kinabalu — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:30:13 +0000

I’ve been here in Dublin for a few days now, getting into various forms of mischief and driving all over the joint on the opposite end. Of course the reason for the visit was to give a few talks on Apache Wicket at epicenter 2010. If you’re going, please stop by my talks on Thursday [...]

Jazoon 2010 Talk in Zurich Switzerland

kinabalu — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:33:18 +0000

What can I say? Switzerland treated me awesome for my first visit, and I look forward to returning soon. The folks running Jazoon did a bang up job organizing. First time I ever presented a session inside of a movie theatre! In Dublin now, getting ready for epicenter 2010 and enjoying my stay. [...]

Google App Engine for Java presentation

kinabalu — Sat, 15 May 2010 03:45:25 +0000

I gave a talk last night at the Orange County Java User’s Group (OCJUG) on Google App Engine development with the Java platform. This was the same one we gave at the Scandinavian Developer Conference in March. The whole talk stemmed from a good friend Eugene Ciurana being unable to attend, so I [...]

Wicket talk from SDC2010

kinabalu — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:51:51 +0000

In mid march I attended SDC2010 in Göteborg, Sweden. The event was very well attended with nearly 700 people and was filled with a wealth of great speakers. Some of the sessions I enjoyed were Matthew McCullough, Steven “Doc” List, Tim Berglund, and of course Kent Beck … too many to count. [...]

Spammers apparently have a new method of grit

kinabalu — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:02:18 +0000

I’m currently in Europe speaking at Scandevconf.SE. And apparently some spammers have copied legitimate emails that I’ve sent to mailing lists with a signature line containing company phone numbers, and used this as seed content to pass through the usually pretty good spam filters. Ordinarily this wouldn’t be against the norm for spammer sewer sludge, [...]

Interview with Andrew over at LoadStorm

kinabalu — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:10:36 +0000

Scott Price over at LoadStorm interviewed Andrew about his experiences in the software development arena. A lot of really great questions asked, and thoughtful answers on where we’re at as an industry today, and what the road ahead might look like. Check out the interview and enjoy!

Über Conf 2010 and Apache Wicket talks

kinabalu — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:18:43 +0000

Andrew has just accepted speaking at the first Über Conf 2010 being held in Denver, Colorado. A quick description of the conference: Über Conf 2010 will offer over 100 technically focused sessions on Java the Platform including hands on workshops centered around Architecture, Cloud, Security, Enterprise Java, Languages on the JVM, Build/Test, Mobility and Agility. [...]

Opera mini for iPhone shown at Mobile World Congress

kinabalu — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:39:35 +0000

At this year’s Mobile World Congress there have been a number of really fun announcements. The latest in the string, is that Opera decided to put up instead of shut up. In a recent post I talked about the brouhaha over the lack of Flash on the iPad, and the continued whines coming [...]

MysticPaste gets a launchbar plugin

kinabalu — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:01:05 +0000

Our Wicket based pastebin has gotten another plugin for pasting your content! A lot of the folks at Mystic love the Launchbar product for navigating the filesystem, launching applications, searching, and much more. After perusing the forums for Launchbar a bit ago we came upon a post detailing an applescript for posting to [...]