Moandji Ezana wrote: > I was wondering which Devoxx sessions people are particularly looking > forward to, which ones they recommend because they've seen it before > and which ones they would avoid. > Gee, it's hard to make this judgement. Most of the speakers have been vetted by Devoxx people prior to be invited to speak. When I look at the schedule I see that it suffers from too many good talks sharing the same time slots. > > I'm particularly looking forward to Bob Martin's keynote. I've seen this a couple of times. It's always entertaining. > Even though I pretty much know what he's going to t alk about, he's > fun to watch live. And, of course, the JavaPosse session. :) No brainer especially if there is Atlassian beer involved ;-) However it's up against a couple of interesting talks. Guilluame is always interesting. > > Interesting concurrent sessions: > James Gosling's session vs. Brian Goetz's "The Concurrency Revolution: > The Hardware Story" hard one but Brian's talk is (I believe) based on the JavaONE presentation Cliff Click and he presented. It's hardcore! But pretty much all of the talks in that time slot feature solid speakers and an interesting topic. > Kirk Pepperdine's performance tuning talk vs. the Windmill testing > framework Unfortunately, I'll have to be at the first talk. > Project Coin vs. Gregor Hohpe (strongly leaning towards Hohpe) Toss up > Fan BOF vs. JDK 7 BOF Yet another fun choice. > > Is the session "Towards a Universal VM" the same as the talk given > last year? Is it kind of like a report from the JVM language summit? > > I saw Cameron Purdy's "Traditional Programming Models" at QCon London > in January (it's on infoq.com <http://infoq.com>) and it was okay, but > missable (unless it's vastly improved in the mean time). He know has a European version which is awesome IMHO.
You've missed Simon Ritter. Simon always delivers a solid talk. However DTrace is pretty much Solaris only (and Mac with Instruments) and I've tried using BTrace. It's an interesting tool but it just doesn't feel right. For one it's a victim of the master class anti pattern. Holly Cummings is another solid speaker that will most likely have something interesting to say about performance tooling. If you're into Wickets, Martijn is the man and he's also a solid speaker. See you at Devoxx! Kirk --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
