The exciting sharing of Git begins with JFokus in Stockholm, Sweden on the 14th of February, 2011. I’ll be delivering a 1 hour Git Intro talk, a 3 hour Git University Session, and a 2 day Git Workshop. It will be my first journey to Stockholm and I’m expecting to see it in its wintery white state. This trip will be made possibly in part by Scott Chacon and other generous sponsors at GitHub.com

The fun in Scandinavia continues with the ever-popular and ever-more-necessary Encryption on the JVM talk at the Scandinavian Developers Conference in Göteborg, Sweden on April 4th and 5th. It will be preceded by a Git Workshop taught by myself and Tim Berglund of the August Technology Group.

ScanDev will be quickly followed by DWorld’s 33rd Degree Java Conference in Kraków, Poland. I’ll share some insights with attendees about Hadoop and Git and have a post-conference workshop on Git.

The final Springtime stop will be at JAX which will be held in Mainz, Germany on May 2nd through 6th. I’ll be delivering a Git talk and a Git university session in the countryside west of Frankfurt.

And yes, I’m already planning my September, 2011 trip to JavaZone in Oslo, Norway. This conference has become a favorite in so many ways. I love to debut and passionately deliver new talks to this conference and the crowd is so receptive to new ideas and the latest technology. The equally great part about this show is its newly minted JourneyZone — an after-conference wilderness adventure in the Norwegian mountains. The 2010 edition was fantastic. I don’t know how any outdoor adventure could top it. But the organizers say they are trying, and I believe them!

What a year 2011 will be. So much fun and so many places to share all the topics I’m most excited about. I can hardly wait for it to get started.

I had the pleasure of presenting two talks at Øredev this week. For those of you that asked, here are the slides and the code samples:

• Maven 3
• Maven 3 Slides
• Maven 3 Code Samples
• Encryption on the JVM
• Encryption Slides
• Encryption Code Samples

Comments and feedback in both positive and constructive criticism formats are greatly valued. Drop me a line via email or twitter.

No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium in Atlanta

This was my first time presenting at an NFJS event in Atlanta, and you can be certain I’ll be back. Earlier in the Summer, I had the opportunity to address the Atlanta Java Users Group (AJUG) and show off the flexibility of Git. For the NFJS Symposium, I talked about Hadoop, Git, Encryption on the JVM and Open Source Debugging, which are my “fun but informative talks” lineup for 2010.

Colorado Springs Open Source User Group

Gary Hessler runs a great user group in Denver’s sister city to the south. I had the opportunity to present Git, one of my favorite topics since it is accessible no matter what language you program in and what platform you use. My NFJS colleague, Tim Berglund presented his always well-received Decision Making talk. It is an interesting divergence from the typical programmer presentation and gives you techniques to deal with team dynamics.

JavaZone in Norway

The ever-excellent JavaBin User Group in Norway put on a stellar conference called JavaZone for 2000+ people. What a show! The diversity of talk formats, speakers, and topics is simply incredible. After the conference, about 25 of us experienced a once-in-a-lifetime event of hiking in the Norwegian countryside. The otherworldly photos and hike details will make you want to attend next year!

The sessions are recorded at JavaZone and two of mine are available online. The former was in the big room in a formal setting. The latter talk was in a smaller room at the end of the conference and had a more informal feel where questions could be asked of the audience and vice-versa.
Encryption Boot Camp on the JVM

Hadoop: Divide and Conquer Gigantic Datasets

StrangeLoop in St. Louis Missouri

After returning from JavaZone, I headed to Missouri for the super-technical event named StrangeLoop brewed by Alex Miller. The lineup of speakers was stellar and the non-profit atmosphere was very relaxing. Hilary Mason, Guy Steele, Yehuda Katz, Josh Bloch, Doug Crockford, and many others. I will be attending next year if the timing works out again.

No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium in Minneapolis

My home base of conferences, NFJS, brought me up to the always warm audiences of Minneapolis. This has to be one of my top-5 favorite stops on the tour due to the beautiful hotel and the technologically advanced attendees. Their questions are deep and I try to be as prepared as possible for them. I had the privilege of Brian Sletten and David Hussman sitting in my classes about Hadoop.

SpringOne

The sprint of conferences concluded with my attendance and helping out with the logistics of SpringOne2GX in Chicago. The hotel was spectacular and the attendance overwhelming. It seemed to be just shy of a 1000 people and double last year’s attendance. I attended some great sessions and had hallway chats with the likes of Hamlet D`Arcy, Hans Dockter, Paul King, Andres Almiray (our co-incidence rate at conferences is getting to be uncanny!), Peter Bell, and Chris Beams. I’ll try to put in some abstracts for next year and get invited to speak!

This works well to mirror your “audience” display to the iPad so that you can view videos that don’t animate on the Keynote presenter display. It also works well for live coding sessions so that you don’t have to twist your head rearwards

I had the privilege of presenting three talks at the massive JavaZone in Norway this year. What an amazing conference; and to think it is all run by a Java Users Group (JUG) called JavaBin.

My slides are online for:

• Encryption on the JVM
• Git
• Hadoop

The feedback and comments from Sigmund and Morten were wonderful. I loved getting to say hello to folks I met last year, such as Erik Mogensen. It’s like extended family here.

I hope I get invited back next year. Now, I’m off to do a hike with the organizers in the mountains of Norway!

This week, I made a four day journey to the very forested state of North Carolina. Joey knew a Coloradoan was coming and turned on the statewide AC to bring it down to a comfortable 72 degrees Fahrenheit when I landed. The food was great, the people were super, and the technology was awesome.

Relevance

I had an open invitation to come out and visit the team at Relevance, which I’d been waiting to cash in. The Research Triangle NFJS Symposium finally made that visit possible.

I had a great time meeting the entire Relevance team, working with Stu Halloway on automating the Clojure release scripts through some Bash scripting, Git calls and Maven Ant Tasks.

At lunch, I gave a live demo of my workflow with the DevonThink Pro product, including capturing and aggregating multiple RSS streams alongside archived emails and snippets from web pages.

In the afternoon, I had the fun assignment of working with Aaron Bedra on an implementation of JCE symmetric AES encryption on a Clojure project. He followed up a day later on “Relevance Open Source Friday” by beginning to move the implementations over to a standard library for upcoming public consumption.

No Fluff, Just Stuff

I had the pleasure of presenting Encryption, Open Source Debugging on the JVM (over 50 deliveries of that one now), Hadoop, Maven 3 and Git to the engaged audience in Raleigh on Friday and Saturday. The during-presentation questions were spot on, and even when the topics got heady, the students just leaned forward in their chairs and kept on making insightful inquiries. Attendees of that nature are pure candy to a passionate presenter like myself. I especially want to thank Darin Pope, Billy Dupre, David Bloom, David Deininger, Sri Sankaran, Asif Rashid, and Ed Savage for providing much-desired feedback on Twitter.

I know I’ll be back for the NFJS show next year, but I’ll make all efforts to put in a few more visits prior to that. A city with a technology culture of this strength demands that I do. Thanks for having me and perhaps I’ll see some of you at the Rich Web Experience in December on the beaches of sunny Florida.

Resources

For the folks that attended my talks this weekend, here are some constantly updated supplemental materials to resources that are paired with the slides:

Encryption

• Encryption, Delicious Bookmarks
• Encryption, Source Code Samples

Open Source Debugging

• Open Source Debugging on the JVM, Delicious Bookmarks
• Open Source Debugging on the JVM, Source Code Samples

Hadoop

• Hadoop, Delicious Bookmarks
• Hadoop, Source Code Samples

Maven 3

• Maven 3, Delicious Bookmarks
• Maven 3, Source Code Samples

Git

• Git, Delicious Bookmarks
• Git, Source Code Samples

I’m excited to be presenting at the Rich Web Experience this December. It’ll be a great show, but the venue location simply adds to the magnetism. Who can resist beaches and Florida in December?

I’ll be doing a sharpened version of my iOS workshop with Ben Ellingson. Attendance numbers will be greatly limited compared to our last time we ran this workshop so as to give plenty of one-on-one attention to students. We’ll get to use the latest iOS 4 SDK with its polished UI, developer-helpful features and Git integration. I hope you’ll consider joining us for this special one-day addition to the conference. Ben and I will be tempted to run the workshop on the beach.

I’ll also be doing a Git workshop in the main portion of the show. If you haven’t already heard, Git (and GitHub) is the hot new open source source code control tool that is agnostic to your programming language of choice but adds features driven by developer needs, not by marketing teams. Bring your notebook, see what the buzz is about, and walk away with a Monday-morning-equipped set of skills to apply Git on your next project.

See you on the beach!

In about 75 minutes, I’ll explain why the Git Version Control System deserves your attention as your next version control system. I’ll show you its blazing speed adding 5000 files to a repo, creating a repository at GitHub, initiating a local branch, merging with a colleague’s repository, and finding which commit broke the integration tests.

I’ve also set up a few resources for attendees to peruse after the talk, including:

• Git Instructions executed during the lecture/workshop
• Git Delicious Bookmarks
• Git 101 Video
• Matthew’s Git DZone RefCard

In short, if you have the least bit of dissatisfaction with your existing version control system, this talk should tip you squarely in favor of the new world of Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS), and specifically, my favorite implementation, Git.

First up is JavaZone in Oslo, Norway. I can’t believe this classy and large of a show is put on by a user group (in a sports arena). Clearly, it has a great committee and a great director at the helm. This is where I first met the likes of Ola Bini of JRuby and Kohsuke Kawaguchi of Hudson fame. If you are in reach of Norway, this is a must-see developer event with presenters gathered from all over the world.

Next up is the exciting Øredev in Malmö, Sweden. I’ve heard from my colleagues at No Fluff Just Stuff that this is a stellar event. The quality of materials Øredev has sent out to speakers has been amazing thus far, and literally table-discussion worthy for inclusion in our Presentation Patterns book. I’m going to be in every one of Evan Doll’s iOS sessions.

Finally, I’m presenting a nitro-enhanced version of Encryption on the JVM at Devoxx in Antwerpen, Belgium. Another conference (like the awesome Jazoon) in a movieplex? Anytime! No worrying about the size of code samples on the screen, that’s for sure. Is a 30 meter screen big enough for you? I hear that Devoxx is the JavaOne of Europe. The lineup of speakers is phenomenal. I will be in a chair for every session besides mine.

If you are in Europe, or are of a traveling persuasion like I am, any one of these three venues would be a big enhancement to your knowledge and relevancy in the JVM development world in 2011. I hope to meet many of you I’ve only spoken with digitally before. I’ve already received dozens of “see you there messages.” Add your name to that list.

To make it efficient for the attendees of my sessions to get to the resources of my talks, I’m listing them all in this blog post.

Encryption on the JVM

• Matthew’s Encryption Delicious Bookmarks
• Matthew’s GitHub Encryption Sample Projects

Hadoop

• Matthew’s Hadoop Delicious Bookmarks
• Matthew’s GitHub Hadoop Workshop Code

Maven 3

• Matthew’s Maven Delicious Bookmarks
• Matthew’s GitHub Maven Sample Projects