Observations about ApacheCon EU 2014

You may be thinking now, after reading my previous post, that all I was doing at ApacheCon EU 2014 was looking at T-shirts people were wearing :-). This post is an attempt to convince you it was not the case.

First of all, ApacheCon EU 2014, as it is usually the case with Apache conferences, was a great opportunity to meet the fellow open source developers.
Chatting to the guys I work with at Apache CXF and other projects, sharing a joke or two along the way :-), was really great. 

Some people there are great advocates of doing the software for the good of the world. You do see people there who spend their own free time to make Apache and various projects it hosts succeed and help others.

It was nice to see Talend, my employer, being mentioned as one of Apache sponsors. Even though Apache has great sponsors which contribute much more, it was good to see Talend being recognized. Every contribution counts. The companies involved in the open source have a positive vibe about them, the more they are involved the more recognized and respected in the community at large they become. The world is a small place. Customers would be positive about working with such companies, going the business with such companies, as this post posted awhile back suggested.



Those of us who did the presentations about CXF were lucky to do it on the very first day in a beautiful Corinthia Hotel Ballroom. I kept thinking, there were times people were dancing there accompanied by the music by Franz Liszt and here we are talking the cryptic things about CXF.  The times change. But the beauty of the room is there today.

The other thing I noticed was the visibility of Hortonworks. They had a strong team presenting a number of interesting talks. To be fair to them, their T-shirts are also not bad at all :-), may be they should have some sort of the competition with Tomitribe.

Overall, it was a well organized, great event ! I'm feeling positive and energized after attending it.

[OT] The best T-shirt I've seen at Apache Con EU 2014

This is the first post about Apache Con EU 2014 held in beautiful Budapest I've been lucky to attend to.

One of the nice things about being an ApacheCon visitor is that one can see lots of cool T-shirts. The official T-shirts (I do treasure them) and other T-shirts with some great lines or digits printed on them. The T-shirts that many software geeks would be happy to wear. And indeed the visitors at ApacheCon EU 2014 had a lot of different T-shirts to demonstrate.

It was at the presentation about TomEE that I realized that while the rest of the room were glued to the presentation screen and being impressed by what TomEE could do I was looking at the T-shirts of TomEE experts doing the presentation and thinking how unfair it was I did not have a T-shirt like that too.

You can see Romain wearing it here.

Tomitribe, the company which did it right once again :-) !

Meet the CXF team at ApacheCon EU

ApacheCon EU will be held next week in Budapest, the nice capital of Hungary, and a number of my Talend and CXF colleagues will be there talking about CXF, Fediz, Syncope.

Please check the schedule.

Apache will be starting celebrating its 15th anniversary at the conference too, it is amazing that the organization is  relatively young, I thought it has been around for much longer given how popular and visible Apache is.

It is going to be exciting though I'm already getting a bit nervous as I usually do when I'm about to present :-).

Here is some information about the presentations I will do.

The first one is called JAX-RS 2.0 with Apache CXF Continued - I did a similar presentation in Denver in April and hence it has a "Continued" in the title but I'd like to confirm it is not a copy and paste of the original presentation, I tried to rework the slides and update the examples. Check the link and see if it can be of interest - I will talk about JAX-RS, JAX-RS 2.0, with plenty of code examples to be shown along the way.

The second one is called From OAuth1 to OAuth2 with Apache CXF and Hawk. I hope people who are interested in OAuth will find the presentation being entertaining enough. Note it will not be about "OAuth2 being not good enough, Hawk is to the rescue till OAuth3 arrives", nothing like that. The presentation will be about the extensibility of OAuth2, while giving the due credit to OAuth1 and indeed Hawk which can serve as a neat bridge for OAuth1 developers wondering if it makes sense to move to OAuth2 or not. The latest OAuth2 Proof-Of-Possession (POP) effort will be briefly described too.

See you at the conference !