Posts Tagged ‘devoxx 2009’

December 18th, 2009

Blog on Kanban in Action

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Still processing the impressions of DeVoxx 2009 in Antwerp. One of the most interesting sessions for me was the university talk about Kanban in Action by Olav Maassen. He gave a very clear and interactive insight into Kanban. Starting out with the meaning of the word and an example to support this. Kanban mean ‘visual [...]

December 3rd, 2009

Blog on JRockit Mission Control 4.0

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The first day DeVoxx 2009, Noora Peura presented a talk on the new JRockit Mission Control 4.0 version and the toolkit it contains. I published a blog entry about this talk at http://blog.whitehorses.nl/2009/12/03/jrockit-mission-control-4-0-sneak-preview/
If you liked reading this blog and want to know more about the subject you can also take a look at http://www.tinyurl.com/missioncontrol

November 19th, 2009

JavaPosse live

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Here’s the JavaPosse. These guys (for you that don’t know them please check out javaposse.com) give a deep insight on different Java subjects in a relaxed light format.

November 19th, 2009

Craftmanship

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After Ivar was done with his keynote Robert C Martin ‘Uncle Bob’ took Ivar’s talk to the next level. He started his career in ‘69 as a programmer. His experience was that every decade provided new technologies and methodologies. But still developers couldn’t deliver on time and managers keep raising the bar. Concluding he summoned [...]

November 19th, 2009

UML founder

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Ivar ‘Founder of UML/RUP’ Jacobson gave a keynote speech. Very enlighting on the last couple of decades from a methodology perspective.

November 18th, 2009

Father of java

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James the father of Java Gosling.

November 18th, 2009

Scott Ambler book signing

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Scott Ambler just gave a talk on Agile Mythbusters. Very interesting. Now he’s signing books and answers questions.

November 18th, 2009

Metropolis conference center

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This is the DeVoxx conference center (Metropolis) in Antwerp Belgium.

November 17th, 2009

The Kanban board

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This is what the kanban board looks like.

November 16th, 2009

Day 1 of DeVoxx

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The first day of DeVoxx is here. It kicks off with a university day.
The first session today is a session about Kanban. This is a very refreshing way of looking at doing agile/lean development projects.