JavaBlackBelt Newsletter - August 08

In this newsletter:

• e-Meeting Saturday 9th
• JavaZone Norway with UDP
• QCon San Francisco
• New exams under construction: Struts 2, XPath, jQuery
• JavaRebel

e-Meeting Saturday 9th

Join the the next JavaBlackBelt e-meeting Saturday August 9th; 12:00 GMT-UTC (8:00 New York, 13:00 London, 14:00 Brussels, 17:30 India), to share your opinion and get the last news about upcoming activities.

The previous e-meeting was held in May.

To participate this e-meeting, just follow this link on Saturday to start our new conferencing system.

What do you need to prepare ?

• If you plan to speak, a head set with a microphone is better than loudspeakers (to avoid echo).
• For those who don't want to speak in English, the system has a written chat.
• Please have a picture on your JavaBlackBelt account (that will be transferred to the conferencing system).
• Have a look at the recent forum threads, to get an idea of subjects we might discuss
• Don't hesitate to post things you'd like to discuss in this thread.

We'll open the meeting 30min before the starting time, to enable everybody test and get used to the conferencing system.

We look forward to meeting many of you again.

JavaZone Norway with UDP

JavaBlackBelt will be with UDP at the JavaZone conference, Norway, Sept 17-18.

Our partner in Norway, UDP, kindly invites us to run a JavaBlackBelt challenge at this major European conference.

Be sure to show up in the challenge area, and if you've a yellow belt or better, request a free T-Shirt ;-)

QCon San Francisco

JavaBlackBelt will be at QCon San Francisco conference Nov 17-21, 2008.

Nicolas Brasseur will animate the hibernate tutorial Tuesday AM.

Then, during the conference part, we'll run the JavaBlackBelt challenge as we do at many conferences. If you have a yellow belt or upper on JavaBlackBelt, please come to meet us and be sure to ask for a free T-Shirt.

About QCon:
This second annual San Francisco enterprise software development conference designed for team leads, architects and project management is back!
There is no other event in the US with similar opportunities for learning, networking, and tracking innovation occurring in the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, Agile, and architecture communities.
Speakers include: Rod Johnson, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck and many more.

JavaBlackBelt users get $50 additional discount on tickets! Just mention "javablackbelt_50off" as promotion code when register on the QCon website.

New exams under construction: Struts 2, XPath, jQuery

These new exams are waiting for your questions.

• Struts 2 - Basic       thank you Messia.
• jQuery       thank you Valentin & Graeme
• XPath v1       thank you Sylvain & Steve

JavaRebel

JavaRebel offers permanent licenses to all JavaBlackBelt's brown belts.

JavaRebel is a JVM plugin (-javaagent) that enables to reload changes made to Java class files on-the-fly, saving developers the time that it takes to redeploy an application or perform a container restart. It is a generic solution that works for Java EE and Java standalone applications.

If you are a brown belt, send a mail to support --att-- zeroturnaround dot com, with a link to your JavaBlackBelt's profile page, and your full name.

Else you are welcome to visit JavaBlackBelt/UDP's booth at JavaZone (Norway, September 17) and JAOO (Denmark, September 28th) conferences, where challenge winners will also get a license.

If you are not a brown belt, and you cannot come to these conferences, please visit the auction room, it contains one license for August and another for September.

Good luck!

 

 

Until next time ...

The JavaBlackBelt Team