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A couple of JBoss-related announcements today…
First, if you’re wanting to meet some of the JBoss guys out in the Real World, we’ve mashed-up Google Calendar over at our Community Calendar Page. Currently it includes some dates to meet the Drools guys in Orlando, Romania and Sao Paulo, some Hibernate guys in Atlanta, Dublin and [...]

Back at JavaOne, the team and I chased down Gavin and made him speak on Seam, Web Beans (JSR-299), Groovy, Grails, and two-wheeled forms of transportation.

We’ve also included a transcript, since both Gavin and Mark have those funny accents.

The 2008 JBoss World conference has been announced as happening in Orlando during February 13-15. That’s Valentine’s Day. Bring your sweetie south, and thaw out with some hot Java in the sun.
Want to be a superstar and get a free pass to the conference? Of course you do!
Just submit a presentation. [...]

Mike “JIRA JIRA JIRA” Cannon-Brookes pinged me on IM tonight to let me know that Atlassian has acquired Cenqua. Cenqua, as you might know, makes the fancy-dandy FishEye product for viewing source repositories. Atlassian is the Australian wiki/bug-tracking giant run by stylish surfers.
Congrats to both groups. I enjoyed having beers with the [...]

Mark Proctor has posted an interview he did with Terence Parr of ANTLR fame. Ter is one of the nicest and smartest guys I know.
Back in the day, teaching myself how to program in C++, I decided to write my own scripting language. I’d tried (f)lex/yacc/bison, and they were either not friendly to [...]

I’ve finished putting together the first podcast since I’ve joined JBoss.org. Mark Newton and James Cobb helped with this interview of Tom Baeyens, the project lead for jBPM. In it, Tom discusses some of the fundamentals of jBPM, including his ideas around the Process Virtual Machine (PVM).
YouTube | MPEG-4 (Video) | MP3 (Audio [...]

Tom Baeyens has written a nice blog introduction to a technical article on the Process Virtual Machine.
Tom’s blog is great, because it gives you an understanding of the problems and commonalities between various process/workflow/orchestration technologies. I faffed about with Werkflow though a few revisions, all failing miserably.
I think workflow (and rules) will ultimately be [...]

I got back from my first ever JavaOne, and I’d have to say it was a success.
First the obligatory “look how cool I am” section…
Name dropping
Misc
Drank too much with Hani of the BileBlog. Congratulated Cameron & John Purdy at the Tangosol party. Finally met Phil Dodds and Brett Porter, from DevZuz. Dan [...]

The fantastically French Guillaume LaForge pinged me about the Groovy Meetup on Monday, in San Francisco.
It’s limited registration, so you best being heading over to the sign-up page.
I assume they’ll regale us with stories of that crappy hand-rolled parser that one of the founders insisted upon.
What a loon.

JavaOne is next week. Would you believe this is the first JavaOne I’ll ever have attended?
Some of my colleagues have put together a page detailing JBoss’s participation at the conference.
Speakers from JBoss include Gavin King and Emmanuel Bernard, Michael Yuan, Tom Baeyens and many others.
I’ll be hanging out at Booth #1418 along with James [...]