Last week I joined the QA&TEST conference in the beautiful town of Bilbao. In this post I’ll give an impression of some of the presentations I attended to and the idea’s I picked up. Most valuable sessions I attended were “Pushing the Boundaries of User Experience” by Julien Harty and “Automated Reliability Testing via hardware interfaces” by Bryan Bakker. Read about it in more detail in the article.
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I’ve just come back from Devoxx 09 in Antwerp, Belgium, a conference that will probably become known as the one in which closures sneaked back in to Java 7.
Whilst I didn’t feel any particular urge to return for the day 3, there was more than enough interesting material, both technical and abstract, in the first two days for me to chew on. Here some thoughts and comments on my personal “slice” of Devoxx.
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Last week I attended JAX ’09, the Java User Conference in Mainz, Germany.
Or rather “conferences”, because once you’re there JAX is indistinguishable from something called SOACON and the Eclipse Forum Europe, which officially take place in parallel. (more…)
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