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Random observations from Devoxx 2008December 10th, 2008 | by Toomas Römer | |
Devoxx is an annual European Java conference with a total of 3200 attendees from 35 countries and again has been completely sold out. The place is packed. Lots of people, lots of movement and too little internet.
Second day at Devoxx and it is going well. I’ve attended three sessions so far, it is not so much me being lazy but more about being at the JavaRebel booth most of the time. Still I’ve seen many cool things here. Random ramblings will follow.
The conference passes have embedded RFID chip and every movement (hopefully not) is being tracked. From the local paper I read that they will measure session popularity by how many attended the talks, how many left early and so on.
Don’t know if they’ll realease any of it to public (probably not) but it will be great input at least for the next devoxx. The information is said to be anonymous, although I would like to see if and which sessions did the speakers themselves visit.
I presume we are being monitored by these devices that are present on any entrance of the session halls.
The venue is just excellent, having the cinema as the location means that the seating at the sessions is excellent. You have even cup holders and room for popcorn:). The screens are huuuuge and they have added live video of the speaker to the screen.
Which application server is the most popular?
Besides Websphere being evil we see that Spring App Platform has now managed to get two users! Depending on the interpretation of the study I would say Tomcat is in the lead!
Something that I really like compared to all the other conferences I’ve attended this year are the tables with the power cords. You don’t have to worry about your laptop’s battery dying.
But! when compared to the other conferences where your battery actually died you were able to use the internet. Write emails, read news, hack on projects and all the other stuff until you ran out of juice. Here at certain times you have internet, most of the time you don’t. Even if you have it, some domains don’t resolve on certain occasions and it is dead slow if it works.
Is Bruce Willis working for IBM? Sure, he was in a movie Tears of the Sun.
