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h2. Fitz's Impressions of EclipseCon 2010
First of all, I have to say that Oisin Hurley and Don Smith did a great job of \
organizing the conference. Though there was overall lower attendance than in previous \
years, the quality of the talks was higher and the number of people at each talk was \
significantly higher. As with all EclipseCons (this is my fourth EclipseCon and some \
years have been hit/miss), it's as much about the social aspects as the talks. And \
this year was no different.
That said, I attended a number of talks:
h3. WTP Uncovered: All You Need to Know About Building Applications With WTP
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1233 \
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1233
This presentation went way too fast for me and the presenters were a little less than \
organized, but if you go to the file link after the talk description above, you're \
able to download the slides and a working project that implements a RSS feed from a \
simple application. I plan on playing with this as time allows.
h3. Lions, Tigers, and Bears: Scrum, XP, and Continuous Integration at Eclipse
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1079 \
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1079
Dave Carver, one of the stronger and more vocal voices in the Eclipse community, \
presented some of his ideas and experiences around using Agile methods with Eclipse \
projects. (His slides are downloadable from the link above.)
Ultimately it all boils down to continuous communication as much as continuous \
integration. Communication with your developers, your users, and your community. He \
recommends integrating tools such as FindBugs and ECLEmma into the build process \
alongside simple test pass/fail results after running JUnit test suites.
Definitely check out his slides though, as he goes into some detail about the Agile \
Manifesto and how to make it work at Eclipse as well as Software Craftsmanship and \
making your code better.
h3. SOA at REST (John Graham's talk)
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1471 \
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1471
John's talk was interesting, as it discussed SOA and REST at a very high level \
instead of delving into any sort of best practices or code demo. Basically it boils \
down to using the simpler Internet Design Pattern of REST, with its gets and puts, \
for state workflow in SOA applications. To get his slides, look here: \
https://docspace.corp.redhat.com/docs/DOC-36528 \
https://docspace.corp.redhat.com/docs/DOC-36528
h3. KeyNote: Community and Adaptation
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1601 \
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1601
Jeet Kaul from Sun/Oracle and Steve Harris from Oracle did this keynote together to \
discuss the state of Java and Oracle post-merger. The main focus was on JEE 6, with \
some juicy tidbits about JDK 7's OSGi support under the covers and some of the JavaFX \
work that's going on. I think it will be interesting to see how Java changes under \
Oracle's mandates, but they're certainly putting effort into keeping the developer \
communities alive for Java.
h3. Eclipse, Eclipse, Everywhere
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1250 \
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1250
This talk focused on making sure developers and managers know about possible pitfalls \
when integrating with open source technologies and code. The danger of copied code \
from Google coming back to haunt a company later is certainly a good one to bring up. \
They mentioned a tool they used called Black Duck that searches their code repository \
for copied code and possible license issues, which is probably a good idea in any \
company to protect their intellectual property.
h3. A world-class Linux IDE: how do we get there from here?
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1203 \
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1203
Andrew Overholt, Dominique Toupin, and Doug Schaefer spoke passionately about the \
future of the Linux IDE. Like in many places in Eclipse, the Linux tooling could use \
some help here and there to simplify the job of the developer. It will be interesting \
to see how Linux tools development matures over the next few years.
h3. Graphiti - The Graphical Tooling Infrastructure Speaking Plain Java
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1306 \
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1306
Graphiti is a new Eclipse project proposal coming out of SourceForge that is supposed \
to simplify graphical editor development on the Eclipse platform. Simpler than GMF, \
but seems to do many of the same things. It takes an incoming EMF ecore model and \
uses GEF/Draw2D code to speed development for model-based UIs.
h3. Towards Contributors Heaven: from CVS and SVN to EGit/JGit
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1219 \
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1219
Git is one of those terms that's been thrown around a lot over the last year and a \
half at Eclipse. And not always in a good way. Though now it seems that has changed. \
The EGit/JGit movement at Eclipse has been swift and I think once the tooling matures \
a bit, I think it could be the wave of the future.
CVS/SVN require network connectivity in order to do anything with the repository. \
With Git you end up with a local copy of the entire repository, which means you can \
work disconnected and then upload changes and sync up with the main repo down the \
line.
In addition, the use of Gerritt for code reviews will be interesting, especially with \
the MylynReviews project coming up to speed. I think if we can do more with our \
source code control system AND handle a more structured method for code reviews, we'd \
be able to tow the line a bit better.
h3. Keynote: Rocket Science and the Republic
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1600 \
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1600
All I can say after this keynote from Dr. Jeff Norris of the NASA/JPL lab is... wow. \
It takes hundreds and thousands of people working diligently to create complex \
constructs. And though one programmer can't do everything necessary to design and \
control robots they're sending to the Moon and Mars, it takes everyone working \
together in their own areas of expertise and leveraging that expertise to get the job \
done. Amazing talk and I look forward to seeing what the next few NASA robot projects \
discover.
h3. Eclipse UI Test Automation with SWTBot
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1258 \
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1258
With a lot of focus internally on designing SWTBot tests at RH/JB, I thought it would \
be good to get more information about how to use the tool myself. The tutorial helped \
get my head around what SWTBot can do (test most of SWT, but has issues with the \
Forms toolkit and GEF editors) and I was able to write tests fairly quickly. It is a \
manual process, but it's not as bad as some UI test tools I've used in the past.
The PDF of the slides includes some good step-by-step tutorial bits on how to get set \
up and started with SWTBot, and I'll be trying it in some of our tools as time \
allows. I'd be especially interested in developing some use-case-based tests to test \
our tools from start to finish through a development process.
h3. Java EE 6, application development, OSGi, and Eclipse Users
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1226 \
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1226
This was a great talk, but unfortunately a good portion of it flew over my head. (I \
think my brain was already full by this point.) But I want to grab the slides and \
figure out what I missed.
h3. Eclipse Swordfish Reloaded
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1181 \
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1181
The STP project is no more and the SOA top-level-project will now take its place, \
merging SOA Tools and Runtimes together. In addition, there's a new SOA Industry \
Working Group, so it's nice to see there's some movement in this space at Eclipse.
Swordfish is an ESB runtime in Eclipse that looks interesting. Need to look into it \
further.
h3. The Future of Open Source (Panel)
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1563 \
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1563
What happens when you get four high-level open source folks on a panel led by Mike \
Miliknovich? You have some disagreements. This panel included: Justin, President of \
the Apache Software Foundation; Martin, CEO of Eucalyptus and ex-CEO of MySQL; Steven \
from Redmonk; and Jason from Apache/Sonatype. Mike asked several questions and I \
didn't get much out of it beyond "Open source fails at polish and 'pretty'". We \
already knew that and are working to improve it in our own tools. :)
h3. Keynote: Software Professionalism and the Art of Saying "No"
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1588 \
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1588
"Uncle Bob" Martin provided an entertaining talk about what "professionalism" means \
in software development. It all boils down to responsibility.
What did I take away from this talk?
- "Do no harm to the program's functionality" means reducing bugs to zero and taking \
responsibility when things do break
- TDD proves the absurdity of a QA group. QA should be redefined to set the quality \
criteria, not clean up our messes
- manual tests are desperately expensive
- try for 100% code coverage, though it's impossible to achieve
- If a project can't be done with current time/resources, say so. Take a stand for \
quality work. "Hope is the project killer" - don't say "We'll try."
- short iterations kill hope and inject reality
- short cycles allow us to fail frequently and give managers real data
- "The things you do under pure stress are your true disciplines." - Have to be able \
to say no to yourself and hold to your ideals & disciplines
- Say no to overtime - can only do what you can do
- Say no to meetings - meetings prevent progress
- Make your argument emphatically and work with management to achieve quality results
h3. Understanding and Using Git at Eclipse
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1220 \
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1220
Like the earlier Git talk, this tutorial just reinforced that Git isn't quite baked \
yet as far as functionality or UI in Eclipse. It's getting there. Give it 6 months or \
a year and they'll be 90% there. And I think we'll be using it into the future.
h3. Mylyn Reviews: Finding a new Home for ReviewClipse
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1400 \
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1400
Mylyn Reviews used to be the ReviewClipse project on SourceForge. The idea of merging \
the code review process into Eclipse is a great one. And I think by integrating with \
Mylyn's task-centric views, this will be a boon to us to use at RH/JB in our \
processes. Currently in incubator at Mylyn, but will graduate after Helios(?).
h3. Integration of BPEL with OSGi for an effective SOA Solution
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1087 \
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1087
Uses the BPEL editor code we do, but injects some OSGi specific orchestration \
abilities. Creation review next week (April 7, 2010). Code currently at spagic.org. \
Slides are available in the talk link.
h3. Eclipse SOA TLP: Lock, Stock, and Barrel
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1180 \
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1180
This is the new SOA top level project merging STP (SOA Tools) with runtimes in once \
place. Included are Swordfish, SOA Tools, eBPM, JWT, Mangrove, Governance, and \
Management tools/runtimes. We really need to see if RH/JB SOA can work with this \
functionality. Slides available at SlideShare.net, but don't seem to be downloadable.
h3. Other Talks
Beyond the talks that I attended, I also participated in a few talks/panels/BoFs. \
I've added slides where I can.
h4. Eclipse Community Project Spotlight
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1611 \
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1611
h4. Distributed Teams and Eclipse
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1156
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1156
h4. DTP in the Real World
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1157 \
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1157
h4. DTP BoF Session
We actually had three non-PMC members attend our DTP BoF this year! Shengxoe from \
Oracle and Ray & Chris from Ingres dropped by and we had a lively discussion about \
the state of DTP and how we really need help from the community to stay alive. We \
were very encouraged by their interest in helping out by prioritizing bugs and \
creating patches wherever possible. We have a lot of work to do (huge bug backlog) \
and very few folks to do it.
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><h2>Fitz's Impressions of EclipseCon 2010</h2><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>First of all, I have \
to say that Oisin Hurley and Don Smith did a great job of organizing the conference. \
Though there was overall lower attendance than in previous years, the quality of the \
talks was higher and the number of people at each talk was significantly higher. As \
with all EclipseCons (this is my fourth EclipseCon and some years have been \
hit/miss), it's as much about the social aspects as the talks. And this year was no \
different.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: \
0px;"> </p><p>That said, I attended a number of talks:</p><p style="min-height: \
8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><h3>WTP Uncovered: All You Need to Know \
About Building Applications With WTP</h3><p><br clear="none"/><a \
class="jive-link-external-small" \
href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1233">http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1233</a></p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>This presentation \
went way too fast for me and the presenters were a little less than organized, but if \
you go to the file link after the talk description above, you're able to download the \
slides and a working project that implements a RSS feed from a simple application. I \
plan on playing with this as time allows.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; \
padding: 0px;"> </p><h3>Lions, Tigers, and Bears: Scrum, XP, and Continuous \
Integration at Eclipse</h3><p><br clear="none"/><a class="jive-link-external-small" \
href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1079">http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1079</a></p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Dave Carver, one of \
the stronger and more vocal voices in the Eclipse community, presented some of his \
ideas and experiences around using Agile methods with Eclipse projects. (His slides \
are downloadable from the link above.)</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; \
padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Ultimately it all boils down to continuous communication \
as much as continuous integration. Communication with your developers, your users, \
and your community. He recommends integrating tools such as FindBugs and ECLEmma into \
the build process alongside simple test pass/fail results after running JUnit test \
suites.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: \
0px;"> </p><p>Definitely check out his slides though, as he goes into some \
detail about the Agile Manifesto and how to make it work at Eclipse as well as \
Software Craftsmanship and making your code better.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; \
height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><h3>SOA at REST (John Graham's talk)</h3><p><br \
clear="none"/><a class="jive-link-external-small" \
href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1471">http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1471</a></p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>John's talk was \
interesting, as it discussed SOA and REST at a very high level instead of delving \
into any sort of best practices or code demo. Basically it boils down to using the \
simpler Internet Design Pattern of REST, with its gets and puts, for state workflow \
in SOA applications. To get his slides, look here: <a \
class="jive-link-external-small" \
href="https://docspace.corp.redhat.com/docs/DOC-36528">https://docspace.corp.redhat.com/docs/DOC-36528</a></p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><h3>KeyNote: Community \
and Adaptation</h3><p><br clear="none"/><a class="jive-link-external-small" \
href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1601">http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1601</a></p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Jeet Kaul from \
Sun/Oracle and Steve Harris from Oracle did this keynote together to discuss the \
state of Java and Oracle post-merger. The main focus was on JEE 6, with some juicy \
tidbits about JDK 7's OSGi support under the covers and some of the JavaFX work \
that's going on. I think it will be interesting to see how Java changes under \
Oracle's mandates, but they're certainly putting effort into keeping the developer \
communities alive for Java.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: \
0px;"> </p><h3>Eclipse, Eclipse, Everywhere</h3><p><br clear="none"/><a \
class="jive-link-external-small" \
href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1250">http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1250</a></p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>This talk focused on \
making sure developers and managers know about possible pitfalls when integrating \
with open source technologies and code. The danger of copied code from Google coming \
back to haunt a company later is certainly a good one to bring up. They mentioned a \
tool they used called Black Duck that searches their code repository for copied code \
and possible license issues, which is probably a good idea in any company to protect \
their intellectual property.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: \
0px;"> </p><h3>A world-class Linux IDE: how do we get there from \
here?</h3><p><br clear="none"/><a class="jive-link-external-small" \
href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1203">http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1203</a></p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Andrew Overholt, \
Dominique Toupin, and Doug Schaefer spoke passionately about the future of the Linux \
IDE. Like in many places in Eclipse, the Linux tooling could use some help here and \
there to simplify the job of the developer. It will be interesting to see how Linux \
tools development matures over the next few years.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; \
height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><h3>Graphiti - The Graphical Tooling \
Infrastructure Speaking Plain Java</h3><p><br clear="none"/><a \
class="jive-link-external-small" \
href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1306">http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1306</a></p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Graphiti is a new \
Eclipse project proposal coming out of SourceForge that is supposed to simplify \
graphical editor development on the Eclipse platform. Simpler than GMF, but seems to \
do many of the same things. It takes an incoming EMF ecore model and uses GEF/Draw2D \
code to speed development for model-based UIs.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: \
8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><h3>Towards Contributors Heaven: from CVS and SVN to \
EGit/JGit</h3><p><br clear="none"/><a class="jive-link-external-small" \
href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1219">http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1219</a></p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Git is one of those \
terms that's been thrown around a lot over the last year and a half at Eclipse. And \
not always in a good way. Though now it seems that has changed. The EGit/JGit \
movement at Eclipse has been swift and I think once the tooling matures a bit, I \
think it could be the wave of the future.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; \
padding: 0px;"> </p><p>CVS/SVN require network connectivity in order to do \
anything with the repository. With Git you end up with a local copy of the entire \
repository, which means you can work disconnected and then upload changes and sync up \
with the main repo down the line.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: \
0px;"> </p><p>In addition, the use of Gerritt for code reviews will be \
interesting, especially with the MylynReviews project coming up to speed. I think if \
we can do more with our source code control system AND handle a more structured \
method for code reviews, we'd be able to tow the line a bit better.</p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><h3>Keynote: Rocket \
Science and the Republic</h3><p><br clear="none"/><a class="jive-link-external-small" \
href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1600">http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1600</a></p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>All I can say after \
this keynote from Dr. Jeff Norris of the NASA/JPL lab is... wow. It takes hundreds \
and thousands of people working diligently to create complex constructs. And though \
one programmer can't do everything necessary to design and control robots they're \
sending to the Moon and Mars, it takes everyone working together in their own areas \
of expertise and leveraging that expertise to get the job done. Amazing talk and I \
look forward to seeing what the next few NASA robot projects discover.</p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><h3>Eclipse UI Test \
Automation with SWTBot</h3><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: \
0px;"> </p><p><a class="jive-link-external-small" \
href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1258">http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1258</a></p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>With a lot of focus \
internally on designing SWTBot tests at RH/JB, I thought it would be good to get more \
information about how to use the tool myself. The tutorial helped get my head around \
what SWTBot can do (test most of SWT, but has issues with the Forms toolkit and GEF \
editors) and I was able to write tests fairly quickly. It is a manual process, but \
it's not as bad as some UI test tools I've used in the past.</p><p style="min-height: \
8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>The PDF of the slides includes some \
good step-by-step tutorial bits on how to get set up and started with SWTBot, and \
I'll be trying it in some of our tools as time allows. I'd be especially interested \
in developing some use-case-based tests to test our tools from start to finish \
through a development process.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: \
0px;"> </p><h3>Java EE 6, application development, OSGi, and Eclipse \
Users</h3><p><br clear="none"/><a class="jive-link-external-small" \
href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1226">http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1226</a></p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>This was a great \
talk, but unfortunately a good portion of it flew over my head. (I think my brain was \
already full by this point.) But I want to grab the slides and figure out what I \
missed.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: \
0px;"> </p><h3>Eclipse Swordfish Reloaded</h3><p><br clear="none"/><a \
class="jive-link-external-small" \
href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1181">http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1181</a></p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>The STP project is \
no more and the SOA top-level-project will now take its place, merging SOA Tools and \
Runtimes together. In addition, there's a new SOA Industry Working Group, so it's \
nice to see there's some movement in this space at Eclipse.</p><p style="min-height: \
8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Swordfish is an ESB runtime in Eclipse \
that looks interesting. Need to look into it further.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; \
height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><h3>The Future of Open Source \
(Panel)</h3><p><br clear="none"/><a class="jive-link-external-small" \
href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1563">http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1563</a></p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>What happens when \
you get four high-level open source folks on a panel led by Mike Miliknovich? You \
have some disagreements. This panel included: Justin, President of the Apache \
Software Foundation; Martin, CEO of Eucalyptus and ex-CEO of MySQL; Steven from \
Redmonk; and Jason from Apache/Sonatype. Mike asked several questions and I didn't \
get much out of it beyond "Open source fails at polish and 'pretty'". We already knew \
that and are working to improve it in our own tools. <span> :) </span></p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><h3>Keynote: Software \
Professionalism and the Art of Saying "No"</h3><p><br clear="none"/><a \
class="jive-link-external-small" \
href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1588">http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1588</a></p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>"Uncle Bob" Martin \
provided an entertaining talk about what "professionalism" means in software \
development. It all boils down to responsibility.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; \
height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>What did I take away from this talk?<br \
clear="none"/>- "Do no harm to the program's functionality" means reducing bugs to \
zero and taking responsibility when things do break<br clear="none"/>- TDD proves the \
absurdity of a QA group. QA should be redefined to set the quality criteria, not \
clean up our messes<br clear="none"/>- manual tests are desperately expensive<br \
clear="none"/>- try for 100% code coverage, though it's impossible to achieve<br \
clear="none"/>- If a project can't be done with current time/resources, say so. Take \
a stand for quality work. "Hope is the project killer" - don't say "We'll try."<br \
clear="none"/>- short iterations kill hope and inject reality<br clear="none"/>- \
short cycles allow us to fail frequently and give managers real data<br \
clear="none"/>- "The things you do under pure stress are your true disciplines." - \
Have to be able to say no to yourself and hold to your ideals & disciplines<br \
clear="none"/>- Say no to overtime - can only do what you can do<br clear="none"/>- \
Say no to meetings - meetings prevent progress <br clear="none"/>- Make your argument \
emphatically and work with management to achieve quality results</p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><h3>Understanding and \
Using Git at Eclipse</h3><p><br clear="none"/><a class="jive-link-external-small" \
href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1220">http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1220</a></p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Like the earlier Git \
talk, this tutorial just reinforced that Git isn't quite baked yet as far as \
functionality or UI in Eclipse. It's getting there. Give it 6 months or a year and \
they'll be 90% there. And I think we'll be using it into the future.</p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><h3>Mylyn Reviews: \
Finding a new Home for ReviewClipse</h3><p><br clear="none"/><a \
class="jive-link-external-small" \
href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1400">http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1400</a></p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Mylyn Reviews used \
to be the ReviewClipse project on SourceForge. The idea of merging the code review \
process into Eclipse is a great one. And I think by integrating with Mylyn's \
task-centric views, this will be a boon to us to use at RH/JB in our processes. \
Currently in incubator at Mylyn, but will graduate after Helios(?).</p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><h3>Integration of BPEL \
with OSGi for an effective SOA Solution</h3><p><br clear="none"/><a \
class="jive-link-external-small" \
href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1087">http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1087</a></p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Uses the BPEL editor \
code we do, but injects some OSGi specific orchestration abilities. Creation review \
next week (April 7, 2010). Code currently at spagic.org. Slides are available in the \
talk link.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: \
0px;"> </p><h3>Eclipse SOA TLP: Lock, Stock, and Barrel</h3><p><br \
clear="none"/><a class="jive-link-external-small" \
href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1180">http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1180</a></p><p \
style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>This is the new SOA \
top level project merging STP (SOA Tools) with runtimes in once place. Included are \
Swordfish, SOA Tools, eBPM, JWT, Mangrove, Governance, and Management tools/runtimes. \
We really need to see if RH/JB SOA can work with this functionality. Slides available \
at SlideShare.net, but don't seem to be downloadable.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; \
height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><h3>Other Talks</h3><p style="min-height: 8pt; \
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