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It took just over a week for apple to approve it, but we’re in. I decided to learn a little Objective-C in my spare time and built this simple app, it’s a counter which you tap to increment. You can save multiple counters, name them, date them, and it saves your place in between stops [...]

Looks like another fun filled latter half of the year. Andrew will be speaking at two more conferences this year and speaking about Web technology more specifically HTML5 and Apache Wicket. I highly recommend both conferences if you’re close, or want to take a nice vacation to really awesome spots. The first conference is in [...]

As many of you know, I’ve been in Ireland since last Saturday June 5th, 2010. I was invited here to speak at The Irish Software Show. Both of my talks were on Thursday about Apache Wicket, and each of them were well received. Our beginner talk was a big draw, and I feel it was [...]

I’ve been here in Dublin for a few days now, getting into various forms of mischief and driving all over the joint on the opposite end. Of course the reason for the visit was to give a few talks on Apache Wicket at epicenter 2010. If you’re going, please stop by my talks on Thursday [...]

What can I say? Switzerland treated me awesome for my first visit, and I look forward to returning soon. The folks running Jazoon did a bang up job organizing. First time I ever presented a session inside of a movie theatre! In Dublin now, getting ready for epicenter 2010 and enjoying my stay. If you’re [...]

I gave a talk last night at the Orange County Java User’s Group (OCJUG) on Google App Engine development with the Java platform. This was the same one we gave at the Scandinavian Developer Conference in March. The whole talk stemmed from a good friend Eugene Ciurana being unable to attend, so I adapted his [...]

In mid march I attended SDC2010 in Göteborg, Sweden. The event was very well attended with nearly 700 people and was filled with a wealth of great speakers. Some of the sessions I enjoyed were Matthew McCullough, Steven “Doc” List, Tim Berglund, and of course Kent Beck … too many to count. There definitely seemed [...]

I’m currently in Europe speaking at Scandevconf.SE. And apparently some spammers have copied legitimate emails that I’ve sent to mailing lists with a signature line containing company phone numbers, and used this as seed content to pass through the usually pretty good spam filters. Ordinarily this wouldn’t be against the norm for spammer sewer sludge, [...]

Scott Price over at LoadStorm interviewed Andrew about his experiences in the software development arena. A lot of really great questions asked, and thoughtful answers on where we’re at as an industry today, and what the road ahead might look like. Check out the interview and enjoy!

Andrew has just accepted speaking at the first Über Conf 2010 being held in Denver, Colorado. A quick description of the conference: Über Conf 2010 will offer over 100 technically focused sessions on Java the Platform including hands on workshops centered around Architecture, Cloud, Security, Enterprise Java, Languages on the JVM, Build/Test, Mobility and Agility. [...]