Java Posse Roundup

I've spending the week in beautiful Crested Butte, Colorado at the Java Posse Roundup. It's the fourth year in a row, with record attendance. And as always, it's been fantastic. It's hard to explain an Open Space conference - it doesn't sound like it would work, and I was personally surprised to see how well it worked when I attended the first time. Now I simply expect it, and it always delivers. One key reason why this open space conference works so well compared to say "unconference" events attached to major face-forward conferences is that you need to be away from everything and really immerse yourself - and here up in the Rockies we certainly are isolated! The day before the conference started we had a "Languages Dojo" day where people pick different languages they're interested and go off building something. We had planned in advance to build a JavaFX version of the "Ohm Writer", a Zen-like text editor that is full screen, has nice relaxing background music, background sounds and typing sounds. We had a great time, and made a lot of progress. Unfortunately, we spent a lot of the day fighting with git (the version control system). I'm a very happy Mercurial user, but I've had a little bit of git-envy since I know it can combine local changesets into a single changeset to be pushed to the repository. I could see myself using that a lot. And setting things up on github for collaboration was very easy. But that's where the fu...

Date: March, 19 2010
Url: http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/java_posse_roundup

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