BlackBeltFactory's News

As you may know, JavaBlackBelt has just started a new coached e-learning activity to keep on building better developers. We're going to build and enhance the courses with community involvement, just like we do the exams. The courses are currently are hosted on an external CMS service, so the contribution process will initially be a bit manual.

Find out how to get more contribution points and recognition from the community at http://todos.javablackbelt.com

• 5 Passes for GIDS Java Conference on 24th April
• 5 Passes for GIDS Workshop on 25th April

Great Indian Developer Summit is the biggest gathering of software developers from Java/J2EE, Microsoft computing technologies, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Web 2.0, Ajax, Agile, SOA, and Enterprise IT. The theme for 2009 is "Tools, Technologies, Tips and Tomfoolery to Beat the Downturn". The speakers include Stephen Forte, Craig Mc Clanahan, Mike Benkovich, Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, Jonas Jacobi and Dr. Jim Webber who will cover topics such as Oslo, C#4.0, T-SQL Tips & Tricks, HTML 5 Communication, Guerrilla SOA, RESTful Apps with RoR & workshops on Programming MS Live Mesh, JRuby, Building Mashups & more.

The partial program (80%), including both sessions and workshops and the outline agenda has been published. Voting is also open until April 3 for the Great Indian Developer Awards; winners will be announced on April 25.

See the summary, video and report.

The results of the two first surveys will be published in the coming weeks.

Thank you for your feedback!

(English summary below)

Nous avons eu et allons faire des activités intéressantes avec le très actif Paris JUG.

En Juin 2008, John a animé 2 sessions (en Français) dont vous trouverez les videos au ParisJUG.org

• Meilleurs Développeurs
• Comment Attirer et Garder les Développeurs

Le ParisJUG a décidé de féliciter sur son site tous les Français ayant passé une ceinture JavaBlackBelt. Notez la congratulation box (traduite) dans la partie gauche du site ParisJug.org.

JavaBlackBelt donne 15 points de contribution à tous les membres du Paris JUG sur demande au Paris JUG

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Finalement, JavaBlackBelt ira festoyer à Paris à l'occasion du premier anniversaire du Paris JUG. A cette occasion, nous ferons une activité learning-community plutot spéciale, que vous pourez déguster on-line.

English summary:

• Videos of 2 HR-oriented sessions animated by John are on-line, in French (sorry): Better Developpers, and How to Attract and Keep Developpers.
• French new belts are congratulated on ParisJUG.org.
• Paris JUG members get 15 contribution points
• For the 1st anniversary of ParisJUG, JavaBlackBelt will join the party with a fun-special community-learning activity (video on-line after the event).

The mission of JBB is to provide a great learning experience for our members. And we feel that the best place to go for feedback on how we are doing and how we should expand our services is, no doubt, directly to our members. If you have 5 minutes, we invite you to take this 7 question survey. The survey results will be reported in our next newsletter, with the results of the 2 surveys that we conducted in 2008.

PS: As a show of appreciation, we'll credit your account with 10 Contribution Points (at the end of the survey in 2-3 weeks)!