You might have noticed that posts slowed down here after my talk at JavaZone, which is because I took some time off to see Scandinavia. But I’m back now and getting ready for even more upcoming events! Just a quick review:

1. San Francisco Java Meetup - I’ll be speaking here again, this time about Resin’s OSGi container implementation, as well as general OSGi issues along with fellow Java Meetup regular, Andrew Headrick. This is just one week away on Monday, Oct 6 at 6:30. The signups are full right now, but keep an eye on the page in case anyone drops out…
2. Resin Administration Training - There are still a couple of spots left for this course, so sign up ASAP to guarantee your seat. I’ll be teaching this at Marakana’s facility in San Francisco on October 22-24. It should be an action packed 3 days!
3. Silicon Valley Code Camp - This informal, but highly technical conference is growing by leaps and bounds. With already over 500 signups, I expect the Code Camp to be a ton of fun and very successful. I’ll be speaking on Quercus and BAM, so stop by for those and the other speakers’ talks on Nov 8 & 9 at Foothill College.
4. Devoxx - You might know this as JavaPolis or briefly JaVoxx, but the newly renamed Devoxx is still the same great conference that attracts developers from all over the world. It will be held Dec 8-12 in Antwerp, Belgium. I’ll be giving a talk there and Caucho is a plugin partner, so look for us on the convention floor as well.

If you missed Monday’s talk by hi5’s Paul Lindner, you missed a great presentation. Fortunately, the slides are available on the meetup group’s page. Paul talked about the true ins and outs of running a hugely scalable, high performing social networking site. A lot of the architectural points he made are applicable to more than just social networking though. Basically, they do a ton of caching, a ton of monitoring/profiling, and just generally really clever use of resources, both hardware and software. Oh, and they also use Resin. Paul claimed hi5 to be one of the largest users of Resin.

Thanks to Alex Gargenta and Shawn Silverman for a fun evening at the San Francisco Java Meetup. Shawn showed us how to program little tank-like robots called TrackBots. I managed to create a completely insane program for the robot, but managed not to crash it.

I went last night not only to play with robots, but to check out the group because we’re doing a presentation there next month on Quercus! I hope everyone will be able to come out and join us. More information to come…