Archive for category Conference
Feedback welcome: session proposals for Agile 2010
Posted by Alex Ruiz in API, Agile, Conference, Testing on February 25, 2010
I just finished writing two proposals for Agile 2010. As usual, I asked my friends for feedback (through Twitter.) Since the conference’s site requires registration and some of my friends don’t have an account, I’m blogging about my proposals, hoping to get some feedback (thanks Jonathan for the suggestion!) As a side (and funny) note, [...]
I won’t attend JavaOne…for personal reasons
Posted by Alex Ruiz in Conference, Java, Open Source, Personal, Testing on May 25, 2009
It’s official: I won’t be attending JavaOne this year. The main (and happy) reason is that our first baby will be arriving any time during that week! (I still wonder why JavaOne was not in May like previous years.) Our session is still up, and Michael will be hosting it (thanks Michael!) I’ll be posting [...]
FEST at JavaOne!
Posted by Alex Ruiz in Conference, Java, Open Source, Testing on April 27, 2009
I’m proud to announce that FEST will be at JavaOne 09. This year I have the honor to co-present with my good friend and FEST teammate Michael Hüttermann, Java Champion. We will be presenting session TS-4421, “Simplifying Development and Testing of GUIs with the Swing Application Framework (JSR 296) and FEST,” on Friday, June 05 [...]
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