First session of JBoss World is Bela Ban and Brian Stansberry talking about optimizing HTTP session clustering, focusing on JBoss Cache and JGroups. Their talk is full of immediately useful info, and I see lots of note taking. Fortunately for all of these attendees, and also for everyone ever after, this is also the first talk that I’m we’re capturing full audio video for Dev Fu technical session archives. That audio video plus the slides from the talk should may help you find the useful tips, such as this one on tuning and slimming JBoss Application Server by searching for the misspellings in the wiki name “tuning sliming jboss“.
This room is packed wall to wall, and more than a few on the floor. So far this is the sign for the whole conference. There are a lot of people here. Don’t know if there are ever official numbers given out, but it seems well into the hundreds and hundreds. Pretty good for a developer focused conference.
The Red Hat video story team is here in force. I wandered around for the first twenty minutes of getting here this morning, saying howdies to friends. My excitement didn’t kick in until I went into the little back room (in the middle of everything) where the video editing is taking place. Not that it was a lot of equipment or looking like the MI5 van in an episode of Spooks. It is a relatively modest nerve center, but it’s where I’ll be spending some afternoons and evenings and maybe early mornings all week long, working with this great crew to bring you the developer story happening here at JBoss World.
Update: When I greedily went to listen to the recording after the session, I found it blank! Curses. Apparently I pushed the [Rec] button just one time, which puts it in standby mode. It faithfully stood by for a while, then went to sleep. We’ll just have to see how the video comes out for giving us useful audio, but I don’t have a lot of hope. Oh, well, spilt milk and all that, no time to cry. Thanks to Bob McWhirter of JBoss.org for his video capture, which gives us something much more than nothing.
When demonstrating the value of JBoss Cache, Manik Surtani deals with a common challenge — how to demonstrate what JBoss Cache does when it’s features don’t include a flashy GUI. Manik’s idea was to build a GUI demo that shows what JBoss Cache is doing under the covers. For example, one way to see functionality is to start multiple instances of the demo, watching them form a cluster and share data.
This reminds me of demonstrating other under-the-covers system services, such as virtualization or LVM and RAID. Even when it is lines of text flipping by, it is impressive to see services create, be destroyed, and recover gracefully.
This Friday I’m planning on attending Manik’s talk at JBoss World. It’s important to bring attention to projects that might not provide as much flash and bang as other tools, but are essential ingredients to a successful development and deployment. With that in mind, I’ve got Manik’s talk on my agenda of audio presentations I’m capturing, and we’ll discover just how flashy JBoss Cache is.
Tomorrow I fly out to Orlando, FL. for the 2008 JBoss World. One of the many reasons I am looking forward to this event is to be a kick-in-the-pants that Dev Fu needs to move from “almost ready” to “front page.” We’re using JBoss World as a place to up the ante on the kind of content that Dev Fu provides.
During the event, I’ll be working with the crew of JBoss.org to capture and produce daily content, including podcasts and possibly video, if we can edit it fast enough.
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Bob McWhirter posts that the JBoss World hackathon is in the planning stages. Put up your ideas now. Don’t forget to get your conference pass before the event.
An FYI in case you are thinking of attending JBoss World, the agenda has been posted. JBoss presenters include Bela Ban, Gavin King, Emmanual Bernard, Tom Baeyens, Carlo de Wolf, Ales Justin, Dimitris Andreadis, Mark Proctor, and on and on and on.
We’ve begun to put together the schedule for video production for JBoss World. Let us know in the comments to this post or via an email form if you see a presentation in the agenda that we really need to capture and produce for Dev Fu.
The deadline to nominate projects for the JBoss Innovation Awards is 14 December 2007. This is a chance for your JBoss-using project to compete for prizes and recognition:
… an opportunity for the JBoss community to share their stories and be recognized for their commitment to innovating with JBoss technologies. The awards program recognizes individuals, project teams, and companies for technical achievements that show both creative thinking and determined problem solving with JBoss solutions. We want to hear how you have used JBoss solutions and technologies to improve existing processes, overcome technology challenges, and enhance your company’s bottom line.
