http://clevegibbon.com/javasoup Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:08:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Announcment: On 24th November, Eclipse Demo Camp comes to sunny Poznan, Poland. We will be there as sponsors of the event and there are some great talks lined up. Hope you can make it... http://clevegibbon.com/javasoup/2008/11/eclipse-demo-camp-poznan/ CQ is a Web Content Management System from Day Software. Version 5.1 was released yesterday. So why is this important to me? Couple of reasons. Firstly, Cognifide have been using CQ for last 3 years and the underlying content repository CRX for nearly 4 years. ... http://clevegibbon.com/javasoup/2008/11/cq51-released/ I've created a Sling Home page and have started writing a few pages to get myself into the Sling frame of mind. Having built my first Sling OSGi bundle and successfully deployed it, things are looking up. However, to do this I had to step through the sling-dev ... http://clevegibbon.com/javasoup/2008/11/sling-home-page/ We played host to the Poznan Java User Group yesterday at our offices. Although it was in Polish (slides in english), when I popped my head read round the corner I was surprised to find over 50 people sitting down laughing and nodding along to the presentations. I ... http://clevegibbon.com/javasoup/2008/11/java-user-group-in-poznan-is-very-active/ The Poznan Java User Group are meeting at our offices in Poland, tomorrow Thursday 5th November @ 18:00 to discuss: JDK 1.6 update10, quick overviewMapReduce: Hadoop i Mahout - Dawid WeissJava profiling (debugging/memoryleaking/heapdumping)Afterwards, there will be beers and time to sit down and discuss all things Java related. Feel free ... http://clevegibbon.com/javasoup/2008/11/poznan-java-user-group/ Apache Sling is a web framework that uses a Java Content Repository to store and manage content. Michael Marth of Day.Com is the most vocal blogger on the web about Sling and lives out of http://dev.day.com. However, the David Nuescheler, CTO of Day, is never short of a ... http://clevegibbon.com/javasoup/2008/10/what-is-apache-sling/ Alex Miller maintains an unofficial Java 7 home page and recently updated his predictions about what will make it into Java 7. boy, did this spark off a discussion in the forums. So what's the big deal?. Well, the only thing that appears clear in all of ... http://clevegibbon.com/javasoup/2008/08/java-7-platform-whats-in-whats-out/ I've started listening more and more to the podcasts from the JavaPosse recently. At first, I found the format a bit dry but these guys do grow on you. I'm now past the getting to know them period. Anyway there was an interesting discussion on what is ... http://clevegibbon.com/javasoup/2008/07/what-is-an-rich-internet-application-ria/ I'm currently helping out with the review process for the new Grails in Action book. If you're into Grails, why not help out as well. http://clevegibbon.com/javasoup/2008/07/grails-in-action-call-to-action/ I was a little bit impressed with the ease with which you can deploy a Grails web application into the cloud using Morph AppSpace. So much so, I wrote it up as a page and will maintain it going forwards. I think it will get better, so I'll ... http://clevegibbon.com/javasoup/2008/07/grails-in-the-cloud/