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Why Java

Jan Machacek — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:33:00 +0000

At Cake Solutions, we have been using Java for quite a few years. Recently, I had to formulate why our customers should chose Java over other languages. It was easy to come up with geeky reasons, but purely technical reasons on their own are not enough. It turns out that modern Java EE applications are successful, interesting and exciting because of all the tools we have in the Java world–it boils down to the fact that I believe that a lot of the innovation we see in contemporary computing runs on the JVM and with JDK 1.7, we should see even more exciting developments.
In the meantime, download the Why Java PDF, where I try to explain why you should use JVM-based platform over anything else.

Today’s web applications

Jan Machacek — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:40:18 +0000

I gave a talk on today’s Java EE and related web applications at yesterday’s London Digital Week event at Skills Matter. I had a full room of geeks keen to find out what I think about web application development. I hope that all attendees learned at least one new thing and that they’ll all find the time to try out Spring, Ruby on Rails or Grails.
To get started, you can download the source code of the talk from http://github.com/janm399/ldw/tree/master; the PDF version of the talk is available at http://github.com/janm399/ldw/raw/master/talk/ldw-pdf.pdf.

I’m looking forward to seeing most of you again at the next Java User Group or Spring User Group event!