Yesterday and today, I've featured the first two blog posts by Jean-Francois Bonbhel on the java.net home page. Jean-Francois is the founder of JUG-AFRICA, an umbrella for Java User Groups located in Africa. The objective behind JUG-AFRICA is to help African JUGs "collaborate globally in ways that will ultimately benefit Java developer communities locally."
Is it still possible to ask this question in 2010? Isn’t the answer obvious? Well no! It was the question I was asking myself three years ago, even though I had been working as a consultant and Java trainer for seven years. In 2007, my ex-colleague Éric Marcoux (Oracle ACE Director) suggested I join JUG Québec (Canada). I said JUG ? Java User…What?
But, after attending JavaOne in 2008, he quickly recognized the benefits of the type of interaction and collaboration that Java user groups facilitate:
Several months later, I went to JavaOne 2008 and when I saw so many developers, architects, engineers from so many countries and so many amazing projects... and heard Matt Thompson (ex-SUN) and nearly 40 JUG Leaders talk about importance of the Java community at «Think Globally and Act Locally» session and met Micheal Levin the co-founder of the impressive West African JUG in Senegal, the question wasn’t «What’s a JUG?» anymore but rather «How can a sense of community and belonging be fostered among Java developper in Africa ?». For me the need of JUG-AFRICA became evident.
All African JUGs are invited to participate in JUG-AFRICA. To stay in touch with JUG-AFRICA happenings, all that's necessary is to subscribe to one or both of the JUG-AFRICA mailing lists.
JUG-AFRICA is off to an impressive start. Already, 12 African JUGs are affiliated with JUG-AFRICA:
The "on the Java road" part of my job@Oracle is starting with a busy time: * I'll be starting off at TheServerSide Java Symposium in Las Vegas. I'll be doing a keynote and a panel. EE 6 will be front and center. With luck, the Demo Gods will smile ;~) * Then I'll be at Tech Days in Hyderabad, India. Tasty food, sunshine, and enthusiastic developers are a great combination. * After a week back home, I'll be at the Tech Days event in St Petersburg, Russia (not Florida: no dolphins swimming by the hotel's beach)...
Just wanted to make sure you’ve seen this: As reported before, JavaOne will be co-located with Oracle OpenWorld the week of September 19, 2010. The Call for Papers (CFP) went out a couple of days ago. This year’s topics related to the mobile, media, and embedded space are: * Java ME and Mobile; * Java for Devices, Card, and TV; * The Java Frontier (aka “Cool Stuff”)...
For meanwhile more than 25 years I am writing computer programs. More than a decade I spent with programs accessing databases, virtually always relational ones. I soon learned that this is rather hard work. Not only that you need to know about the theory behind RDBMS iself, but also you need to know the technical APIs (like ODBC, ADO, RDO, JDBC, JDO, JPA, CMP, ...), the structure of the database itself ("Schema": table names, keys, data types, etc.) and it's management system (like Oracle, Microsoft, Sybase, etc.). And certainly there are lots of tools. I've seen come-and-go so much different tools, all of them blown with lots of never used features. Each different to use and to install...
Hi, Welcome in my page at Java.net, thanks for Sun, Oreilly and Java.net community. I'm already blogging here http://www.bonbhel.com, but in this blog, there will be another things related to Java technologies, JUGs in Africa, the sense of community and belonging among Java developper in Africa and some time the point de vue of Java community in Africa etc...
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