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This post is part of  a series on Git and Subversion . To see all the related posts, screencasts and other resources, please  click here .  Update : I've also shared my notes from the talk.  Here they are . So, the Cisco/JavaZone folks were lightning fast and uploaded the recording of my session at JavaZone the day after I held it. Here it is: Living with Git and Subversion in Parallel from JavaZone on Vimeo . You'll have to watch it fullscreen and in HD to follow the command line action, I reckon. I think this marks the climax, and probably the end of my adventures with git+svn. I mean, we're still using it at work, and I'll still help people with it when they ask on the "Git for human beings" mailing list . However, I won't submit it to any more conferences or user group meetings. It's been a really interesting topic, and an important one. The resources-page has gotten 6000 views (plus a lot more on the blog posts), and the screencas...

Some weeks back I got word that my Git-SVN talk got accepted for JavaZone ! Last time I attended JavaZone was in 2008, where I did my talk on Web Testing (video available). Since then I've moved to Germany, and haven't really had the chance to attend the conference. However, I've heard its kept getting bigger and better every year, and I have no doubt this is the best Java conference in the world. So I'm really looking forward to coming back there, meeting a lot of old friends, and learning a whole lot of new stuff. This year marks JavaZone's 10th anniversary, and as usual their marketing is hilarious: So, see you in Oslo, early morning Wednesday the 7th of September!

I was very happy when my JavaZone talk about " How I learned to love and hate web-testing " managed to fill up a whole room. For those of you you who didn't get in, or didn't manage to get a hold of one of the very rare overflow-headsets, or were busy at one of the other talks, here's the recorded video for your viewing pleasure: All hail web-testing! Click the image to get to the talk, hit the little Presentation link at the top and off you go. For the best viewing please, and this goes for all the JavaZone videos, I recommend the following: 1) Click the Max Slide button to get the slides in a seperate window 2) Right click the video for the flash menu 3) Click Zoom in, so you get a bigger video (click and drag if the focus is wrong) On a cool note, after the first count (yesterday), my video was the 7-most viewed video (of a total of 86 videos). Woohoo! But I'm likely to drop once people start realizing that All the videos from JavaZone 2008 are available o...

So, JavaZone is done. I did my presentation, tada (please view full screen to get rid of the chippy graphics): How I Learned to Love and Hate Web-Testing View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: jz08 javazone ) I got good feedback. In short: The slides are funny and original, my presentation moves were allright (good voice, good gestures, movement around the stage), the content was pretty good and interesting. The talk was at an introductory level, and I feel I hit the audience pretty well. Will be very interesting to see the video, as well as getting the feedback. I was also in the JavaZone arranging committee. You might've seen me scurrying around, commanding the guys in the orange T-shirts (they were the volunteers). It was alot of work, but it was alot of fun as well. Tomorrow evening we're throwing a party in their honour at the University, so if you're in the neighborhood, give me a ping and drop by. But anyways, I didn't get too see many talks. ...

I'm still going through my post-summer awakening, so I still haven't gotten the wheels of this blog running again. But current events are sort of relevant to the people I'm guessing are part of this blog's readership. The biggest happening coming along is JavaZone 2008 . Now this is especially important for me for two reasons. First reason: I've been a part of the crew preparing the conference. My role has been gathering a crew of volunteers to help out with all the practical work during the conference. Hooray, very rewarding work, getting 40 people to work two days for virtually nothing! Luckily there's a great crowd of Java-interested students in Oslo, and they can't afford a conference-ticket! So our evil schemes of acquiring a cheap workforce are proceeding as planned. Actually, there is a win-win relationship going on here. Student-organizations like to profile themselves in front of companies, cause companies have a tendency to give away free stuff w...

In other news, this week I attended JavaZone 2007. Here's a wrap-up: Wednesday I was going to attend Stephan Janssen's talk on Web 2.5 , but unfortunately the room was completely packed when I got there. So I headed over to Johannes' talk . Not surprisingly, his room was stuffed full as well (and appearantly he never got his projector working). So I ended up wandering into Kaare's talk on open source . As always Kaare delivers a quality talk (with cool slides!), but I can't help being slightly disappointed he chose a more exiting and technical subject. I headed on to catch Craig McClanahan (hey, wasn't that hard to spell) and his talk on jMaki . It's not the first time I've been presented to it, got some of it on Jazoon. jMaki certainly is a platform to be reconed with for JavaScript developers, and I hope it (or something similar) will become a de facto standard for the range of JS-widget libraries appearing today. Around then I discovered my phone had ...