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IJTC 2008 - It's Back!

Thursday the 24th of July at 4:08 p.m. 11 Comments

IJTC 2008, the Irish Java Technologies Conference is taking place on January 7th and 8th 2009. Building on last years highly successful event, the IJTC is the Java conference for Java (and related) developers.

Guillaume Nodet - Leading Apache Committor

Friday the 28th of November at 11:34 a.m. 16 Comments

Guillaume Nodet is Software Architect at Progress Software for FUSE, a family of open source Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) products.

The FUSE offerings are based on leading open source projects hosted by the Apache Software Foundation.

He has extensive experience within the open source community and is a highly regarded Committer across several projects, including Apache ServiceMix, Apache Active MQ, Apache Geronimo, Apache Ode, Apache CXF.

Jean-Frederic Mesnil - JBoss Messaging

Friday the 28th of November at 11:14 a.m. 1 Comments

Jean-Frederic Mesnil, affectionately known as Jeff, works as JBoss Messaging Core Developer.

He has more than seven years of experience designing and developing middleware applications for dynamic companies and labs including Red Hat, Continuent and INRIA.

Charles Oliver Nutter - JRuby Evangelist

Friday the 28th of November at 10:10 a.m. 2 Comments

Charles Oliver Nutter works on JRuby and JVM language support at Sun Microsystems in California.

Recognised as one of the world's greatest authorities on the JRuby language, he travels the world presenting at conferences like Devoxx (formerly JavaPolis) in Belgium, JavaOne and Java World.

IrishDev.com Evangelist Nights with JBoss

Thursday the 20th of November at 6:37 p.m. 3 Comments

As part of our run up to the Irish Java Technologies Conference on January 7th and 8th in the Science Gallery, we have teamed up with our Premier Sponsor JBoss to hold a special evening of technology on December 4th at the magnificent Westbury Hotel in Dublin.

Gary Tully - Progress Software

Tuesday the 18th of November at 12:55 p.m. 2 Comments

Gary Tully has over 12 year experience as a software developer (mostly with Java) and loves nothing better than getting to the root cause of a complex problem. He is a Software Architect at Progress Software (formerly IONA Technologies) working with the FUSE open source team.

Chris Davey - Accenture

Friday the 14th of November at 7:20 p.m. 2 Comments

Chris Davey is a Master Technical Architect with Accenture in Dublin.

He has been the technical architect of a number of national scale systems that include significant batch processing, and at the Irish Java Technologies Conference he will share his immense knowledge of the technology.

Groovy Train Steams Back to Dublin

Friday the 14th of November at 12:34 p.m. 3 Comments

Guillaume Laforge is the Groovy Project Manager, and Spec Lead of JSR-241, the Java Specification Request standardizing the Groovy dynamic language. He co-authored Manning's best seller "Groovy in Action".

Along with Graeme Rocher, he founded G2One, Inc., the Groovy / Grails company dedicated to sustaining and leading the development of both Groovy and Grails, and providing professional services (expertise, consulting, support and training) around those technologies.
You can meet Guillaume at conferences around the world where he evangelizes the Groovy dynamic language, Domain-Specific Languages in Groovy, and the agile Grails web framework.

Werner Keil Joins IJTC Line-Up

Wednesday the 12th of November at 7:55 p.m. 3 Comments

Werner Keil is currently Java EE Architect and WebSphere Consultant for German Automotive Leader Mercedes.

He has worked for more than 18 years as project manager, software architect, analyst and consultant on leading-edge technologies for Banking, Insurance, Telco/Mobile, Media and Public sector for companies like Nokia and BEA/Oracle.

Kevin Noonan - Cloudware for Java

Wednesday the 5th of November at 12:18 a.m. 4 Comments

Kevin Noonan is a professional software developer with over a decade of commercial experience. He has worked on system and server software for two NASDAQ-quoted technology companies; as well as stints with four brand-name financial institutions in Ireland.

In 2007, Kevin, an IrishDev.com Elite Member, presented on XMPP/Jabber at the inaugural Irish Java Technologies Conference in Dublin and he returns for year two to impart his knowledge on Cloudware for Java.

Sam Brannen - Building Web Apps with the SpringSource Applications Platform

Monday the 3rd of November at 7:59 p.m. 2 Comments

Sam Brannen is a Senior Software Engineer at SpringSource where he serves as a member of the SpringSource Application Platform development team, focusing primarily on OSGi-enabled web deployment models and Tomcat integration in the Platform.

Sam is also a member of the core development team for the Spring Framework and has been developing Java applications since 1996 and enterprise applications since 1999.

Mark Proctor - Drools & BRMS

Friday the 31st of October at 11:16 p.m. 2 Comments

Mark Proctor joined JBoss in October 2005 as the JBoss Rules project lead where he is productising the popular Drools Rule Engine.

He received his bachelor's degree in engineering science and technology and his master's in business and information systems, both from Brunel University, West London. His master's thesis was in the field of genetic algorithms, which is where he first got his interest for anything AI related.

Manik Sutarni - JBoss Cache

Friday the 31st of October at 10:28 p.m. 6 Comments

Manik Surtani is a core R&D engineer at JBoss and lead on JBoss Cache. He has a background in artificial intelligence and neural networks, a field he left behind when he moved from academic circles to the commercial world.

Since then, he's been working with Java-related technologies, first for a startup, focusing on knowledge management and information exchange, and then later as a tech lead for a large London-based consultancy building large J2EE and peer-to-peer technology e-commerce applications.

What a Strong Java Sector We Have

Friday the 31st of October at 9:08 p.m. 2 Comments

We were looking back at the companies who were involved with IJTC 2007 - it's amazing to see their names!

Colorado Rocky Visits Ireland

Wednesday the 22nd of October at 3:50 p.m. 5 Comments

One of the world's most renowned Open Source Committers is to visit Ireland in January to present to Irish Java developers at the Irish Java Technologies Conference in Dublin.

Jeff Genender has a distinguised pedigree of software development. Originally from Chicago, he is now CEO of Savoir Technologies in Colorado, a software development company specialising in Java, Oracle and  .NET technologies.

IJTC 2008 Speaker Update

Friday the 17th of October at 12 a.m. 1 Comments

Now, if you're looking at this today - Friday 17th October - it's the last day you can book at the early bird rate of €159.00 - take a look at the speakers below then make your booking the next thing you do! Here

ReScheduled Date for IJTC 2008

Tuesday the 7th of October at 2 p.m. 8 Comments

The date for the IJTC 2008 has been rescheduled for 7th and 8th January 2009

Hosting 365 Extend Sponsorship of Irish Java Technologies Conference 2008

Wednesday the 3rd of September at 3:34 p.m. 2 Comments

Hosting 365, one of Irelands leading hosting providers have increased their sponsorship participation of the Irish Java Technologies Conference.

JBoss Confirmed As IJTC Sponsors

Wednesday the 3rd of September at 11:39 a.m. 2 Comments

JBoss, a division of Red Hat are to sponsor the Irish Java Technologies Conference on January 7th and 8th 2009.

Hosting 365 - Hosting DCU in IJTC Student Sponsor Scheme

Wednesday the 6th of August at 2:14 p.m. 3 Comments

One of Ireland's leading web hosting and services companies, Hosting 365, has become the first company to sponsor  the 'Student Sponsor Scheme,' an initiative to broaden student attendance at the Irish Java Technologies Conference.

Hosting 365 have pledged the tickets to the Computer Science Faculty at Dublin City University where H365 Sales Director Paul Lynch studied.

Hey....Give Something to the Little Guys

Friday the 1st of August at 6:02 p.m. 6 Comments

The IJTC 2008 has launched an entirely new scheme aimed at our young Java developers - students.

We're asking Irish business to sponsor a student along to the Irish Java Technologies Conference - at just €50.00!

Fancy Being an IJTC 2008 Speaker?

Friday the 25th of July at 8:56 p.m. 19 Comments

Now in its second year, the official Irish Java Technologies Conference, the IJTC 2008 is all set for January 7th and 8th in Dublin and we are now calling interested parties to submit presentation abstracts and bio's on Java related technologies.

Review of IJTC 2007

Thursday the 24th of July at 6:41 p.m. 33 Comments

As we were going through the archives of IJTC 2007, we got really quite enthused. If you were at last years event in the CineWorld, you'll recall what a great few days we had - if you missed it, we thought it might be interesting to share a review.....

IJTC 2008 - It's Back!

Thursday the 24th of July at 4:08 p.m. 11 Comments

IJTC 2008, the Irish Java Technologies Conference is taking place on January 7th and 8th 2009. Building on last years highly successful event, the IJTC is the Java conference for Java (and related) developers.