When you took a look at the scheduled speakers, no:sql(eu) in London itpromised to be a fantastic event but this was not taking into account the fact that a volcano deep down in Iceland… NoSQL
being about (among other things) availability even in the case of disaster, NoSQL.eu degraded gracefully and eventually took place in a pretty efficient way, with speakers giving their talks remotely, mainly from USA (sometimes very early in the morning due to time differences). This was also an opportunity to meet and discuss with Werner Vogels.

Anyway, here is what I will keep in mind after these 2 days in London:
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This is not a scoop : Swing – even if this technology is widely used in companies – is not evolving a lot. The developer kit still provides today components which are neither complex nor rich as a couple of years ago so you have to buy it elsewhere. The Swing development is still very verbose and finally not really productive, and to be honest, it is not the few JSR in stand-by that will change anything. Beans Binding is in an inactive status. Beans Validation – the draft dates from 2008 – is always not included into the JDK (maybe the version 7). The JSR 296 (which defined a standard application lifecycle) will not represent the most important improvement a framework has known (I swear, I really enjoy Swing…)
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A couple of years after we started out this blog entitled “OCTO Talks!”, we are pleased to confirm the English version is now available. All the articles are not translated yet and as for the other published contents, the translation is dependent on the willingness of its authors, their wish to write them or not in English.

We look forward to reading your comments soon!