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QCon – How good was QCon 2008?

March 19th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Qcon, business

In short fantastic. I’ve attended many larger conferences and I found the smaller size more enabling for communication, both with the speakers and conference attendees. I attended tutorials on Agile management and DSL’s (Domain Specific Languages) and followed tracks on cloud computing, effective design and architectures. Each of these had a great set of speakers and there was only one session in the whole week that I felt was weak. I left the conference armed with lots of ideas and inspiration and a handful of excellent contacts. I also have a stack of notes that I am digesting and hope to put some clearer views together than my short blog posts on sessions from my N810.

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Nokia N810 with Java

January 17th, 2008 | 6 Comments | Posted in gadgets, java

At long last, after countless issue with Parcel Force i received my N810. I had been without one since selling the N800, but the wait was worthwhile. Its screen and keyboard are excellent and the battery life is as good as ever. The new interface is slick and a joy to use. My only issues are that the internal GPS is just too weak, in the manual it says something like ‘ works best in blue sky’ (it’s not kidding and i will be sticking to my Tom Tom for in car navigation) and the email client is poor (but can be rectified by downloading and installing Modest). The thing i’m most happy about is the ease with which you can install Java, just follow the simple instructions posted on Jayson Falkners Blog and your ready to deploy standard application, rather than just running applets.

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