CodingClues

Recently I visited Jazoon, an international conference for Java developers at Zurich, Switzerland.

Having heard a lot of interesting talks, I want to sum up my impressions and try to figure out some of the latest trends in the world of Java as well as interesting facts for software architects.

This is part 4 of my series of blog posts and deals with

Google Android

In his talk about the Google Android platform, Peter Wlodarczak described the experiences he made when developing a mobile application for the new Smartphone OS from Google.

His application is a mobile translator, which is even able to do some OCR in order to translate e.g. Chinese signs.

Developing applications for Windows CE based Smartphones for years, I want to compare the impressions I got from Android to the experiences I made with Windows CE.

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Recently I visited Jazoon, an international conference for Java developers at Zurich, Switzerland.

Having heard a lot of interesting talks, I want to sum up my impressions and try to figure out some of the latest trends in the world of Java as well as interesting facts for software architects.

This is part 3 of my series of blog posts and deals with

Ajax Push

Having worked with ICEfaces (but suspended work for now due to a lot of bugs), I was curious to hear a talk of one of the guys of ICEfaces, Ted Goddard.

The topic was Ajax Push. Surely, Ajax is a buzzword of today and everybody wants to have some Ajax functionality in his application, maybe just to be cool.

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Recently I visited Jazoon, an international conference for Java developers at Zurich, Switzerland.

Having heard a lot of interesting talks, I want to sum up my impressions and try to figure out some of the latest trends in the world of Java as well as interesting facts for software architects.

This is part 2 of my series of blog posts and deals with

Google Web Toolkit

I visited two talks about the GWT.

As you probably know, Google Web Toolkit follows the idea that the presentation layer of a web application can be entirely written in plain Java.
Mainly, the GWT is a compiler that compiles your Java code into highly optimized JavaScript, that is executed on the client side.

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Recently I visited Jazoon, an international conference for Java developers at Zurich, Switzerland.

Having heard a lot of interesting talks, I want to sum up my impressions and try to figure out some of the latest trends in the world of Java as well as interesting facts for software architects.

This is part 1 of my series of blog posts and deals with

Scala

This keynote was presented by Martin Odersky, a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Maybe you have already heard of him. He is about to develop a programming language that could be the successor of Java: Scala.

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