Mark Stephens has been working with Java and PDF since 1999 and has diversified into HTML5, SVG and JavaFX.
He also enjoys speaking at conferences and has been a Speaker at user groups, Business of Software, Seybold and JavaOne conferences. He has a very dry sense of humor and an MA in Medieval History for which he has not yet found a practical use.
When I go to an event I always try and arrive a few days early so I can experience the location. This weekend I am in Istanbul for DevFest 2017 on Sunday, talking about NetBeans. But friday and saturday are my chance to experience what Istanbul has to offer…. Top of my list to try…
You can read my notes on the JavaOne conference in my previous posts (list at bottom). In this article I will try to summarise what I thought were the key points. 1. The only constant is change Several speakers said that the Java world had changed more in the last 3 weeks than the…
Here are my notes and pictures from there last day of JavaOne. You can find our notes from sunday (Community/NetBeans Day), monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday. 9.00am Java Community Keynote [KEY7694] IBM demo of an application on technologies and announced open-sourcing OpenLiberty and Open J9 The usual silly antics with lots of community onstage. This year based…
Here are our notes and pictures from Wednesday at the JavaOne conference. You can find our notes from sunday (Community/NetBeans Day), monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday. 8.30 Analyzing HotSpot Crashes [CON2494] All slides on internet so only 1 screenshot Unrecoverable error Worked through core dumo Jcmd gives useful background data Lower j interpreted J crashed in…
Here are our notes and pictures from Tuesday at the JavaOne conference. You can find our notes from sunday (Community/NetBeans Day), monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday. 8.30am Continuous Code Quality with SonarQube and SonarLint [CON4258] Sonarsource based in Geneva and hiring Sonar lint dev tool with ide plugins Sonar cloud launched June 2017 Focus shifted to…
