Sydneysiders: Java User Group tomorrow!

I’m not usually available on Thursday nights, but am making an exception to attend this month’s Sydney JUG. John Smart, of Java Power Tools fame, will be talking about behaviour driven development and easyB.

Behavior Driven Development (BDD) in Java with easyb John Ferguson Smart

John Ferguson Smart is a freelance consultant specializing in enterprise Java, Web development, and open source technologies, currently based in Wellington, New Zealand. Well known in the Java community for his many published articles, John helps organizations optimize their Java development processes and infrastructures and provides training and mentoring in open source technologies, SDLC tools, and agile development processes, including the popular Java Power Tools Bootcamp. John is principal consultant at Wakaleo Consulting, a company that provides consulting, training, and mentoring services in enterprise Java and agile development. He is also the author of the recently-published Java Power Tools book.

As it says on the website:

Hosted at Atlassian at 173-185 Sussex Street. Refreshments 6:00-6:30, followed by presentations / discussion / pizza. The meetings are free, with no requirement for membership.

See you there!

Atlassian acquires Cenqua

A quick note of congratulations to the folks at Cenqua and Atlassian, after today’s announcement. This is certainly a natural fit for the products they have. It’s great to see Australian start-ups going from strength to strength, and the guys from Cenqua are a great bunch who I see all too infrequently on this side of the planet.

Shame to lose the colour in those product logos though… and of course now there are an order of magnitude more people to complain about the Maven Clover plugin. Hmm.

The challenge left out to the Atlassian crew is of course to keep up the tradition of T-shirts and parties at JavaOne. Perhaps next year calls for a T-shirt/Stubbies combo.

All the best guys!