19 Jul 2011

Java7 Launch Party

I was lucky enough to be invited to the Java 7 launch party at the Oracle UK headquaters the other week. It was good to see so much community involvement with the launch which helped set aside some of the concerns raised regarding Oracles appreciation of the community around Java, after a bit of a uncertain times during the merger.

This Week in London, UK - 18th July 2011

Here is a quick overview of the great technical events happening in London this week, 18th July 2011

Monday (tonight)

Agile testing - a developers perspective. A talk about agile testing at Atlassian (creators of JIRA, etc) from one of the graduate developers over from Sydney Australia. Its a chance to ask questions about how agile testing affects what you do as a developer.
LJC sign up | GDC sign up | Or just turn up

Tuesday

Developer sessions - London Java / Graduate developer and lots of other communities get together an share experiences and war stories over a pint or three. You dont have to drink, but its great if you can ask questions - or nod in appreciation to the things people tell you :-)
LJC sign up | GDC sign up

Wednesday & Thursday

On Wednesday, learn how to write good (idiomatic) Scala with the London Scala user group. Kevin Wright has a huge amount of knowledge about development with the Scala language and if you wanted to learn how to write some good stuff in the language then this event is for you. LSug sign up

On Thursday you can practice what you learnt at the Scala coding dojo at YouDevise. Take all the advice and discussion from Wednesday and apply them in code. At the dojo we spilt up into teams of 3-5 people, so everyone gets involved and is able to learn something. No previous Scala experience is required, enthusiasm (and Google) are all that is needed. LSug sign up

Thank you.
@jr0cket

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14 Jul 2011

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Is There a Final Programming Language?

According to @UncleBobMartin the last programming language ever created was C, back in the days before I was just a twinkle in the milkmans eye. All the “new” languages such as Java, Scala, Clojure, C#, F#, etc are rehashes of existing ones.

Confluence Supports Scala and Clojure Development

Clojure and Scala are two very exciting functional programming languages on the Java virtual machine (JVM) which provide many of the features than Java7 and Java8 have been working toward. There has already been a lot of activity around these functional languages in the UK, from financial services clients, media companies and developers who want to keep ahead of the game, all are getting involved with these languages now. Some of the top jobs are even mentioning these technologies by name.

With a long history of support for open source projects, it is no surprise that Atlassian support the development of Clojure and Scala by providing Confluence and JIRA to the project teams and wider community.