Update: Shortcut to slides (pdf, with notes following) here.
Speaking at the JBoss jBPM community day tomorrow and I’m nervous. I’m nervous because I’m standing up and talking to a group of people that really know their stuff about JBoss workflow. And talking about a project (JBoss Business rules) which has a friendly rivalry with it.
So here goes
- Slides in Powerpoint emailed to myself (check)
- Slides in PDF available online (check).
- Slides in Open Office on laptop ready for presentation (check)
More details on the jBPM wiki if you’re interested in attending the event. Anybody give odds on the laptop bluescreen again (like what happened at the Irish Java Technologies Conference)? It’s not what happens, it’s how you deal with it.
I’m not going to explain what workflow is as I’ve probably blogged enough about it already. But the JBoss Workflow (jBPM) guys are coming to Dublin on June 6th. If you’re into workflow (and if you’re doing any sort of software for large business you should be) then this is a do not miss event and we’re privileged to have it in Ireland.
The JBoss workflow guys are dream guests. They just asked for a couple of venue suggestions and they finally went for the Guinness Hopstore where Barcamp ran last year. Next thing we got was an email saying that the JBoss Workflow event was go. So for the benefit of people flying into Dublin, here’s the information we gave on where to stay and things to do if you’re making a weekend of it.
(More information on the event on Tom Baeyens Blog)
How to get there
Dublin is pretty well served by direct flights from Europe and the US. Aer Lingus and Ryanair are the two biggest airlines flying into Dublin - but there are plenty more (list at FlightMapping.com).
Things to do
- Tour of Guinness brewery and visit the Gravity bar (one of the highest in Dublin)
- Dublin Pub Tour and general social scene (it’s a coincidence that the first 2 items are drink related!)
- Tour of Scenic Wicklow Mountains and Glendalough
- Liffey River tour by boat
- Dublin Bus tour - including it’s Georgian buildings and coastline
- Newgrange - 2000 years older than the pyramids, in the stunning Boyne valley
- Windsurfing , Kayaking or Rock climbing in Viking Carlingford Fjord.
- Trinity College Dublin, 400 years old university , right in the city centre including the 1000 year old ‘Book of Kells’
- For the more curious , Belfast is 2hrs away by express train in Northern Ireland.
- Get lost in Phoneix Park, the worlds largest city centre park.
Places to Stay
I don’t tend to say in Dublin hotels too much (!) but the following I know are reasonably good value (and quiet / clean)
- 3 of the Jury’s Inn (Christchurch is just down the road from the event location, but the IFSC and Parnell Street are also good)
- Academy hotel is ok, if slightly more expensive , if you’re stuck.
- If you want an airport location (about 20 mins / 20 Euro Taxi from the city centre) the Premier Inn chain are pretty good.
- Hotel Isaacs is budget but decent , central and near the main bus / train stations.
- Morgan hotel is where the presenters were put up for the Dublin Java conference. Central but Slightly more pricey.
For people from the community, there’s also plenty of ‘budget’ backpacker type accommodation.
The slides for ‘Life and Death Workflow using JBoss jBPM (Java Business Process Management) are here. PDF , about 800k for 41 slides. I’ve included full notes (even though I won’t get a chance to use them during the presentation), so that they should make sense when reading them online instead of seeing them live at the IJTC.
I’ve been promising people that I’m going to sell my car during the presentation. So here’s a picture of it. Isn’t she a beauty?
All offers of workflow consultancy work to consultancy@firstpartners.net.
Note: If you’re linking to the slides, please link (here at this page) rather than the PDF (the location of which may change in the future).
I’m dipping in and out of the presentations at the Irish Java Technologies Conference (IJTC Dublin), so I’m not going to get to see the top 10 speakers. I will update this as it goes along, but my notes on the conference so far are ….
- Bernie Goldbach came all the way from Tipp on the off-chance that he would get 3 minutes with Joel Spoelsky. Given that it’s a 4 and half hour round trip, I’m glad that he got his interview.
- Joel, as ever, was a very good speaker. His message for software developers; soft rounded corners matter. Think iPhone instead of Samsung brick.
- David Syer of Interface 21 was talking about what’s next for Spring (2.5 and 3.0). A lot of good stuff coming up; support for the latest Java Enterprise specs, Webflow , OSGi (deploy bundles , not applications), configuration using annotation instead of XML
- Shaun Smith of Oracle. Covering building JPA Applications (Java and Databases) using Eclipse and Java. Now, I’m not a great fan of Toplink (I prefer Hibernate) , but the open source work including the work on the Eclipse IDE , and it’s support of the JPA (Java Persistence Architecture) standard, and it’s ability to transform Java Ojbects into loads of things (e.g. XML instead of Database Tables) is making me want to take a 2nd look.
- Caught talking in the Lobby : Shaun of Oracle Toplink and Emmanuel Bernard of Hibernate. I was vaugely disappointed these two didn’t come to blows (being from rival projects). There were actually nice to each other and exchanged business cards. Fascinating conversation though …
- James Strachan , Iona and Apache, speaking about messaging patterns. He takes the bean soup that is messaging and integrating your applications and makes it seem really simple. He’s also talking about Apache Camel, ActiveMQ and ServiceMix
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Links to our JBoss jBPM (Workflow/ Business Process Management) presentation slides to follow shortly …