Writing on Trisha Gee

For the rest of 2013, this blog will mostly be masquerading as a travel blog.

The second in my short series of blogs about the new Java driver is now available for your perusal.

Yesterday Stephen Chin, one of Oracle’s Java Evangelists and the JavaOne content chair, interviewed me via a live stream about JavaOne, the new MongoDB Java driver, and my plans to Change The World.

InfoQ has posted the video of Dan North and I opining on the subject of hiring.

It’s nearly the end of August already (how is summer allowed to go by so fast?)

I feel slightly like a traitor to my own blog, as I’ve written a blog post for Somewhere Else.

So, I was in China last week.

Inspired by Your App Makes Me Fat, I was going to write a blog post about decision fatigue.

In the last post I talked about our need for some improved testing tools, our choice of Spock as something to spike, and how mocking looks in Spock.

We’re constantly fighting a battle when developing the new MongoDB Java driver between using tools that will do heavy lifting for us and minimising the dependencies a user has to download in order to use our driver.

I’m at the end of my first official week doing support for 10gen.

Quick update on my scheduled events this year.

I’m going to be in Dublin 1st-5th July.

One of the most obvious differences I faced when I moved from LMAX to 10gen were the working conditions.

You know how I keep banging on about attracting different types of people into programming?

Last week I was in Krakow, Poland for GeeCON.

So, like one of my presentations, I have a question for you.

Last Tuesday I went to a London Java Community talk which promised to debunk the hype around NoSQL.

So, despite promising myself that I would only do one event a month for the rest of this year, looks like I’m going to be a bit busier than that.

Lets talk about mechanical sympathy.

Last week was the first Devoxx UK, bringing the brand from Belgium and, more recently, France.

Don’t you hate it when you ask a perfectly good question, and someone comes back with the answer “it depends”?

For anyone who is interested in what LMAX is up to, and is still following my blog, have a look at this post about the latest tool they’ve open sourced: the Coalescing Ring Buffer.

I like QCon London, I really do.

I had an interesting discussion last night at the LJC developer sessions, and it’s a topic that comes up again and again:

My next few talks are where I finally start speaking about MongoDB.

Fortunately for me, the guys at JAXenter chased me for a summary of 2012 and my predictions for 2013 - I say “fortunately” because otherwise I never would have got around to doing it, and that would be another year slipping away silently into the abyss.

As well as talking about, you know, actual work-type-stuff, I was encouraged to give my “Technical Approach to Women” presentation at Devoxx.

If you see anything about LMAX - the Disruptor, Continuous Delivery, or even the selection criteria for hiring developers, you’ll see that LMAX is pretty keen on Agile.

Hot on the heels of my very first MongoDB webinar, I was… encouraged… to do another.

Yesterday I had the nerve-wracking dubious alarming great pleasure of presenting my first official MongoDB-shaped talk.

Saturday I had the pleasure of being part of the 5th London Java Community Open Conference.

Devoxx 2012 from Roy van Rijn on Vimeo.

The moral of today’s story - be careful what you wish for.

This week I’m at Devoxx for the whole week, and already I’ve achieved two things I didn’t manage last year: I drank Belgian Beer and I’ve spent some time in Antwerp itself.

This month’s Java Magazine features an article by me, Ben Evans and Martijn Verburg about the new lambdas coming in Java 8.

On the same day Stephen Chin came to see me at the 10gen offices, we also ran a NightHacking session in the evening with the London Java Community.

On Monday, Stephen Chin from Oracle visited me at the 10gen offices as part of his NightHacking tour.

So, I’ve finished my first full week in the new job and I’ve learnt lots of new stuff.

Seemed like a quiet conference this year.

The time has come, and I’m moving on from LMAX.

I’ve produced a very cut down version of the presentation I’ve been giving at a lot of conferences, giving a high level overview to the Disruptor.

So, JavaOne.

Yesterday dawned, with a sense of foreboding (actually it dawned with me coughing my lungs out, but we’ve heard enough about the sub-optimal state of my respiratory system this week).

…or, tips-for-Trisha-because-she-has-the-memory-of-a-goldfish.

Well this is exciting!

Last week (was it only last week?)

On Sunday I gave my very first workshop on the Disruptor.

So yeah… in keeping with this year’s theme of basically only blogging about the exciting conferences I’ve been to, I’m going to blog about the exciting conferences I am attending in the future.