http://canoo.com/blog Web 2.0 Technology Blog on Java RIA, AJAX and Flex Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:05:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This morning I sat through a great presentation from one of my fellow Canooeys about Usability Testing. The presentation and discussion were in German, so I have no idea what anybody said; but someone had brought Black Forest Cake to share. Any meeting with Black Forest Cake is a good ... http://canoo.com/blog/2010/03/19/10-lessons-learned-from-usability-testing/ Enjoy a new video of Canoo Fellow Dierk König in action: [caption id="attachment_991" align="alignnone" width="300" caption=""Scala, Groovy, JRuby, Clojure - Which JVM language is for you?""][/caption] In this discussion, panel members Dierk König, Guillaume Laforge (Groovy), Charles Nutter (JRuby), Stefan Tilkov (Clojure) and Ted Neward (Scala) discuss with the audience the pros ... http://canoo.com/blog/2010/03/18/which-jvm-language-is-for-you/ JAXenter interviewed Canoo Fellow Dierk König on Groovy++. Read the Interview in German or join the Groovy++ Group dedicated to discussions of experimental statically typed compiler for Groovy programming language! Update: As from now, the interview is also available in English! By the way: What is "Groovy++"? Dierk König: Groovy + + ... http://canoo.com/blog/2010/02/12/dierk-konig-interviewed-on-groovy/ My start into the fourth day of OOP was hard core techie stuff again: "REST with Java" by Stefan Tilkov. Great overview what it is about, what are its implications on architecture, available tools & libraries etc. He managed to cover a lot of ground in his talk but even 90 min ... http://canoo.com/blog/2010/01/28/oop-2010-day-4/ What I really like about the OOP (never been to this conference before) is the interesting medley of hard core technical topics and soft topics like develpment processes. Having had my share of soft topics yesterday I decided to look a little bit more into hard core techie stuff. ... http://canoo.com/blog/2010/01/27/oop-2010-day-3/ The second day of the OOP was really exciting. First I attended a number of sessions and all of them proved worthwhile. Second, I gave my talk on "Renovation instead of Wrecking Ball" which was well attended and I got lots of questions at the end of the talk. My ... http://canoo.com/blog/2010/01/26/oop-2010-day-2/ Michael Stal: Von den Anforderungen zur Softwarearchitektur This week the OOP conference is taking place in Munich. The first day is tutorials only and I attended Michael Stal's full day tutorial on "Von den Anforderungen zur Softwarearchitektur". When I got the handouts I was quite intimidated: around 240 slides is a ... http://canoo.com/blog/2010/01/25/oop-2010-day-1/ We are happy to announce the second RIA forum which will take place in Darmstadt (close to Frankfurt), 23rd of April 2010! This time, with Canoo Engineering AG as premium sponsor, four well known speakers will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of four different ways to create effective user ... http://canoo.com/blog/2010/01/25/ria-forum-on-gui-technology/ Watch an interesting interview (in German) with Dierk König about the actual language diversity in the Java community — Groovy, Scala, Clojure, JRuby and all the rest of them! If you are interested in this topic, we also recommend to take a look on the schedule of the Java Language Days 2010 ... http://canoo.com/blog/2010/01/25/canoo-fellow-dierk-konig-about-pros-and-cons-of-language-diversity/ Excerpt of  "Rich Internet Applications for Business", an article by Hans Dirk Walter, CEO Canoo Engineering AG (in print). Even if RIA technology continues to expand steadily in the future and the number of purely HTML based applications does decline, it is nonetheless not recommended to resort to an RIA ... http://canoo.com/blog/2010/01/21/rich-internet-applications-for-business/