Jiten Gala’s JCrete® 2017 Report

Idea of founding official Mumbai’s Java Users Group came to me when I attended Jcrete Unconference in 2017 http://www.jcrete.org/ At Unconference I met with Christos Manios ( @maniosolr ) and Giorgos Gaganis ( @ggaganis ).  I was really impressed with activities they carried out under Thessaloniki JUG, they founded. It made me think “do we… Continue reading Jiten Gala’s JCrete® 2017 Report

Jack Shirazi’s JCrete® 2016 Report

So I went to JCrete and had some really interesting discussions. Then I watched a bunch of the JVM Language Summit recordings. Then I looked at some of the frameworks that are alternatives for implementing concurrent applications. Then I looked through a bunch of libraries which provide new collection classes of all sorts. And after… Continue reading Jack Shirazi’s JCrete® 2016 Report

Andres Almiray’s JCrete® 2018 Report

  Just came back from wonderful JCrete® 2018. This year didn’t disappoint, we had close to 110 people openly sharing ideas and knowledge on both technical and soft skills matters. Here’s a picture of the final schedule, captured by fellow Java Champion Badr Elhouari: If you are wondering what was the schedule of @JCreteUnconf 2018!… Continue reading Andres Almiray’s JCrete® 2018 Report

Ioannis Kolaxis’ JCrete® 2017 Report

A unique, unconventional conference Can you imagine a conference without a list of featured speakers? Would you attend a conference without an agenda? I was lucky enough to attend JCrete 2017, a 5-day conference for Java developers that is held in Chania-Greece, and see for myself how such a unique conference (also called unconference) works… Continue reading Ioannis Kolaxis’ JCrete® 2017 Report