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London Groovy Meetup - jez's review

Posted on 13 Jul 2004

Thanks to all of you who came along to last night's London meetup, I think the new venue worked out, apart from being a bit small for all of us.

It was great to finally meet and talk to John 'Tug' Wilson, and Zohar Melemed about their work on groovy. James wowed the crowd as usual.

I managed to take some photos

Other interesting snippets I scribbled in the pub...

Met some chaps working on dspace.org, which is a project concerning the preservation of digital information, this stuff is fascinating to me
One chap has had great success in a recent Java/WebServices/C++ project using gsoap and webmethods glue
Joe again recommended SableCC to me, SableCC is a tool to create an Abstract Syntax Tree from a document parsed using a specified grammer, and it is definitely worth a look.
Joe was also showing off streamlets, which provides the ability for your web client to send and receive messages over JMS.
Mozilla apparently has a good Javascript debugger (Venkman), which sounds like a blessing for maintainence of the unobstrusive Javascript that peppers webapps.
Met a couple of chaps (Philip Milne and other [sorry forgotton your name]) who are working on a subproject of Open Adaptor, called Bhavaya which provides real-time equivalent of Hibernate.

I met lots of new faces, so apologies if I don't remember everything from tonight. It was fantastic to see the buzz alive in London. Please come along next month for more drinking and networking.

Thanks to all.

13 Jul 2004 |

London Groovy Meetup - this Monday

Posted on 09 Jul 2004

I'm rather looking forward to this month's java meetup. I've been playing with Groovy for the last month or so, creating a reference card as I explore.

The creators have agreed to come along to the pub and talk all things groovy, and Hani has agreed to come along and slate it in person :-)

Pop over to the java meetup blog, and sign up if you also would like to come too (newbies welcome).

09 Jul 2004 |

Build your own spacecraft

Posted on 09 Jul 2004

If you find yourself stuck indoors over the summer holiday's,
why don't you...
make your own Cassini-Huygens spacecraft out of paper and glue.

download illustrated assembly instructions (168K pdf).

...Teach the kids something new, or just take a look at the latest pictures being sent from 932 million miles away.

09 Jul 2004 |