Model 2 Code Eclipse

This www.model2code.com site is offering an affordable, agile and model driven Eclipse based tool that is able to forward engineer from model to application. I want to give it a try (it's a trial application).
The size is quite a fat download (more than 1GB!) and unfortunately today's Internet connection is slow here.

The incoming Spring 3.1 will have annotation based cache

I think this is one of the feature developers are waiting for.

I remember last time when my colleague have to implement our specific annotation to incorporate OSCache into the web layer. Now it will be as simple as adding annotation to existing Spring beans!

http://blog.springsource.com/2011/02/23/spring-3-1-m1-caching/

Singapore JUG Meetup January 2011

Next Java User Group Singapore Meet Up will be scheduled on January 25th 2011.
I posted the announcement at meetup.com, Facebook and also Twitter. Hopefully that will reach some people who really keen to it.

We are still looking for a good venue, and may be some figure on how much people will attend will help to find a suitable place for this meet up.

Ruslan Khafizov has been volunteered with the idea: "Fluent Interface in Java".
Anyone suggests place to meet somewhere in central Singapore?

Trying to revive the Java User Group Singapore Meet Ups

Java User Group Singapore has been quite inactive for a while (last meet up was 189 days ago, according to meetup.com). I attended some of the meet ups in the past, but not recently because of the coming of our newborn baby. I guess a lot of people were also busy with their own things :O

Lots of changes happened, we can no longer use the Sun Microsystems office at Central Mall, 1 Magazine Road, Singapore. The office apparently had been shut down due to the consolidation after the acquisition by Oracle. The last 2 meetings were held at Hackerspace, 70A Bussorah Street, Singapore.

We want to revive the meet ups of Java User Group Singapore again.
I was thinking, probably the first month of next year will be best time to start, as December is too close and most people will be off in holidays during mid-December to mid-January.

Today I met one Oracle employee. He wants to pass me the contact person who's in charge of maintaining relationship with developers. We of course welcome anyone or companies who can provide place for meet ups. Ideally the place should be located somewhere central.

Eclipse 3.6 Helios had problem after upgrading to JDK 6u21 (1.6.0_21)

Two days ago I upgraded my JDK to latest 1.6.0_21. My colleague had warned me that the JDK got problem (I helped installing the Helios on his machine). I upgraded anyway, and bumped into that problem. I was aware that the error was expected. I decided to downgrade back to JDK 1.6.0_20 because I didn't have time to explore within that tight schedule.

I found this link http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/07/eclipse-java-6u21 which explains well why they have this problem.

The native code launcher uses the "COMPANY_NAME=Sun Microsystems, Inc", which then changed to "COMPANY_NAME=Oracle Corporation" by Oracle. Not just Eclipse, all RCP based applications are affected.

Again about Google DevFest 2010

Yesterday I had to leave an hour earlier from the Google DevFest 2010 event, as I have to  catch up with my wife, she was waiting for me for the second Antenatal Class. I missed the Code Lab, the Maps and Buzz T-shirts. Ouch. 5:30pm I had to leave while they ended the event on 6:30pm.

Flash back: After lunch time, there were some presentations on Google Apps, by Patrick Chanezon, followed by success story of people who developed applications for Google Apps. One from creately.com (http://www.creately.com). Another round from SingPath (http://singpath.appspot.com).

One thing that was missed a lot is the power points (aka power plugs). It was awful so many people carrying laptop and no power plug on the Connexis Theater. Almost everyone were running out of battery.

I just don't know why the crowd was kinda lacking enthusiasm to verbally respond to the speaker on stage with 'ooo's, 'aaaa's, 'yeah's, 'alright's and stuffs. Most of the time the crowd was silent.

Nevertheless it was a must-attend event of this year. I will attend the next event for sure.

 

In Google DevFest 2010

Currently I am attending the Google DevFest 2010. Timothy Jordan and Bob Aman in their presentation on Open Social.

Today the registration was pretty crowded, and they differentiate based on the first letter of your first name. I was in the "A-F queue". The queue was long and the registration process was draggy.

They changed the schedule a bit, Daniel Lee presented the Google Maps as opposed to the initial schedule on the web site: Google DevFest 2010 in Singapore. He showed us how to create a coffee shop location based informative web site as an example.

After the first session, Jeremy Orlow, an engineer working on the Chrome team, explained the HTML5 and the Chrome. They skipped the Q&A for HTML5 and Chrome. May be they pushed forward because we're late because of the registration, so in order to finish during the lunch time, the organizer advised to ask in person to Jeremy during lunch time for anyone who want to ask questions.

Then here comes the third session, and its about  Open Social.  Tim was of more lively presenter than others I think. More like MC may be? Google Buzz API stuffs, atom, OAuth, Salmon, Pubsubhubbub etc.