Modular Mind

Tomorrow I head to Eclipse World and after doing so much training I’m really looking forward to sitting and listening to others for a change! I am going to be doing a few presentations at the conference, but in this post I wanted to focus on what I’ll be attending next week.

Converting Your Applications From Swing to SWT and the RCP

This topic is becoming increasingly important to my clients. I’ve seen more than a few projects that are trying to leverage existing AWT/Swing resources as they migrate to RCP and are struggling with how to do this properly.

Creating Graphical Editors and Views Using Eclipse GEF

I’ve used GEF occasionally over the past few years, but I’ve never had the opportunity to hear it described in a systematic way. I’m also excited to hear some more about Zest, which I’d love to start using in upcoming projects.

RAP or GWT: Which Java-Based AJAX Technology Is for You?

RIA technologies look to become central to future Eclipse architectures (see the e4 project for the details). I have to admit I’m still somewhat ambivalent about thin-clients and would rather see rich clients with awesome provisioning support instead.

Java UI Testing Patterns and Best Practices

UI testing is always problematic and I think approaching this topic from a patterns and best-practices angle makes a lot of sense. I’m particularly interested in ways to create UIs that are designed to be testable.

So that’s what I’ll be attending this year, and if you see me at the conference be sure to stop me and say hi. And if anyone is interested in having a beer or something, just let me know!

I try to keep marketing posts to a minimum on this blog (I think this is my first one…), but I’m excited to say I’m going to be offering my first public RCP Quickstart course in early November. I often get requests for RCP training from smaller groups of developers and up to this point I haven’t been able to meet this need. Finally, I’ve managed to find the time to schedule a public course that may work for these developers.

So if you’re interested in RCP training and the Washington DC area is convenient for you, I hope you’ll consider attending in November. To get started, you can check out the course syllabus and registration information.

On a slightly different note, I’ve just finished offering my first remote training course to a group of developers in Australia (hello to the gang in Melbourne!). The course went extremely well and it’s got me very interested in offering further remote courses. I’d be willing to offer public or private remote training classes for fairly small groups, so this may also be an option for smaller development teams, or for those in Australia :-)