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Chris Richardson for 3.5 Hours

William Grosso @ January 17, 2009

If you’ve been hearing more and more about cloud computing, are a java developer, and are wondering how to get started, here’s a great starting point: Chris Richardson, founder of the CloudTools open source project and CloudFoundry, is giving a 3.5 hour overview.
I can personally vouch for Chris: bright guy, knows his stuff, reasonably good [...]

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My Java SIG Talk

William Grosso @ January 10, 2009

On January 6, I gave a talk at SDForum’s Java SIG.
It was a little bit of an unusual talk for me. Prior to this talk, I hadn’t spoken at a Java event in for a little over three years. My attention, to put it mildly, has been elsewhere. But, even though I don’t pay much [...]

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I Hope Slideshare Doesn’t Go Out Of Business

William Grosso @ January 10, 2009

Most of what’s on there (and on scrib’d) seems kind of …. well, let’s just say that most of what people are sharing should have been kept private. And being supported by google ads in what’s looking to be a fairly sustained advertising downturn is a scary prospect.
But, on the other hand, it’s an awesomely [...]

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On Proebsting’s Wish List

William Grosso @ January 2, 2009

So I’m preparing the slides for my talk on Tuesday, which is turning out to involve a lot of thinking about programming languages.
One of the thing’s I’m revisiting is a talk by Todd Proebsting entitled “Disruptive Programming Language Technologies”1
It’s a glossy talk, very high level and talking about what might make for the next great [...]

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