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At Craft Conf, there were some presentations about software architecture. I visited all of them and also searched for this subject in other talks. It was interesting to hear the same concepts from more places and to put together a picture how software architecture looks like in the mind of the presenters of today’s conferences. Stefan Tilkov: Architecture War Stories . It was indeed about weird stories from real life. I wrote down two things: If something is sophisticated, probable you shouldn’t do it. And having many architects is wrong. Many people liked this talk very much but I’m not really interested in real stories. I’m rather interested in the causes behind the stories to be able to avoid situations which head to weird architecture. Luckily for me, other talks were more abstract. The title of Rachel Laycock’s talk contained the very fashionable word combination “Continuous Delivery” beside “Architecture” so I anticipated it will be great, and it was. Rachel came with the same m...

In the recent months there were a few Java-related microconferences organized at Budapest. At the eighth occassion of the Java User Meeting (JUM) in January we had a presentation about OSGi by local guys and about Flex by Cornel Creanga from the Romanian Adobe office. I've read his blog and I must say life of an evangelist can be very cool (if there's no wife or girlfriend:)). Visiting Java and Adobe user groups all around in Europe, it's great. At the ninth occasion in March we had three presentations: introduction to the Maven build system, SOAP testing with SOAPui and various other components, and OLAP architectures. The latter was driven by the magnificant prezi presentation engine, which is a very young Hungarian startup project and which will be introduced soon at the Silicon Walley and I'm sure it will have a great success. Otherwise, I guess this time we beat down the highest participant number with about 40 attendees. At the tenth occassion we had a pr...

The originally planned programme of the January Budapest Newtech Meetup contained some interesting presentations like the smart 3D visualizer solution ( 3dForAll ) from a young Hungarian inventor or the Google App Engine which is an alternative server-side solution for those who don't have own server facilities. It can be used mainly for OpenSocial applications which is actual nowadays because of leader social network of Hungary (Wiw: Who is Who) had been announced to support opensocial applications in the near future. Further live demo would had been the Surface which is a Microsoft hardware but it had been also cancelled. The event had been organized this time in a small art movie near the Buda-side of the Margareth bridge. About 130 people were present, some of them couldn't fit into the room. The first demo was about the Zoomery application which is built on Microsoft Silverlight technology and used for deep-zooming a set of pictures or documents. Several kinds of docume...

This year I also couldn't get to any of the heavy European Java conferences, so I stayed at visiting some tiny local events intown. For example last week I attended on the Eclipse DemoCamp Budapest which was organized by the right engaging b2i local team at a pleasant (but not too silent) downtown pub. Around 20 participant were present and there were two presentations, or rather demos planned. When people entered they were asked if they had some interesting subject to speak about, so the whole thing had an unconference style. FOT Testing Services guys actually had a notebook with a copy of their recent project so they took the opportunity to introduce it to the public. First demo was about making a generic data model with EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework) plugin and creating a model editor with Eclipse GMF (Graphical Modeling Framework) which is given by GEF (Graphical Editing Framework). The example model was a basic CD database. With suitable experiences, it takes about 10-2...