Nordic Coding Part III

The third Nordic Coding event is taking place on August 19 in Kiel, Germany.

I think, we again managed to come up with a very nice program. Here it is:

JavaScript - The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language (Thomas Bahn)
JavaScript can be a very nice dynamically typed, functional language if you use it properly. Thomas is going to show us what the language's cool core features like closures and prototypes look like and how to use them.


Scala rocks! An Introduction to Scala (Arno Haase)
Everybody is talking about Scala these days. So it's time to have some introduction to this nice functional language at Nordic Coding. I know Arno loves the language and he can be very passionate about things he likes :-)


Java SE - The road forward, 2011 edition (Dalibor Topic)
The State of the Union of the Oracle Java SE platform group. In this presentation you'll learn more about where we are now, how we got there and where we are going in the future.

So I hope you like such a language-oriented program as much as I do.
Like always DiWiSH will serve some food and drinks after the last talk.
Hope to see a lot of you there!
Here is the link to the official announcement (in German)

Nordic Coding with OSGi, Xtext and Git (April 15th)

Kiel

In two weeks on April 15th we are having the next Nordic Coding event in Kiel (link is german). There will be three talks each 40 mins.

• First Martin Lippert explains the core principals behind OSGi before he shares some entertaining real-life experiences he had with OSGi. 
• Next Jan Köhnlein tells us about and demos Xtext 2.0. Sorry for the self advertisement but we did some very exciting stuff during the last months and just *have* to show it. :-)
• The last talk is given by Ralf Ebert, who taught me to use and love Git. Git is absolute fantastic and Ralf is a very good teacher. 

The event is again for free (incl. soft drinks and food), but you have to register in advance: To do so just send an e-mail to mail@diwish.de.

*Extreme* Nordic Coding

Yesterday the first Nordic Coding mini conference took place in my hometown Kiel. In the beginning I was a bit skeptical whether it was possible to motivate enough people to come to such a code-centric and Java-centric event. Kiel is quite small and I wasn't sure if the local IT industry was big enough. But after we got 100 registrations in advance there was only the snow to spoil the party.

Yesterday we've had the total snow chaos in Kiel and a lot of people couldn't even manage to get to work or school or elsewhere. So I was a bit afraid that nobody was going to come to the first Nordic Coding event. But I was wrong and eventually more than half of the registered people made it to the event.

The first presentation was held by Karsten Lentzsch of JGoodies fame. He lives in Kiel and shared some very enlightening and entertaining stories about his experience with customers and how they tackle UI-programming. He is no doubt an absolute expert in that field and also a great presenter.

After that Sebastian Zarnekow and I talked about how we push Java to its limits in order to make code more readable and expressive. It was fun giving the talk as both Sebastian and I really love programming and could put a lot of passion into that topic.

Afterwards we had some interesting conversations and delicious finger food. Thanks to DiWiSH for sponsoring and organizing the event with us.

The feedback was great and I'm looking forward to the next event which will be in about four months. I asked everybody to submit proposals for presentations and already got three interesting responses. It's my desire to have one presenter from Kiel minimum at each event.

See you next time!

Nordic Coding

On December 2nd the first nordic coding event is happening in Kiel. It's a mini, mini conference (two to three presentations) around software development on the Java platform. It is planned to have such an event at least twice a year. For the first event we will have two presentations:

1) Karsten Lentzsch (JGoodies.com) will talk about UI-Design and why so many smart people regularly fail in writing good user interfaces. Karsten is known to be a great presenter and I am really looking forward to his talk.

2) Sebastian Zarnekow (Xtext/itemis) and me are talking about modern Java programming. We're going to cover how to use the more complex capabilities of the Java language such as reflection, annotations and generics to design readable and convenient Java APIs.

DiWiSH will serve free snacks and drinks and we surely will have a lot of interesting discussions and maybe a beer in the irish pub afterwards. The event is free of charge and I hope to see a lot of Kiel's (and Hamburg's and inbetween's) software developers there.

You have to register in advance. A printable announcement (in German) can be found here.