For our upcoming J-Fall conference, I received some goodies from the US. When I took a look at the Fed-ex tracking-site I saw something strange. This the package go from INDIANAPOLIS to PARIS, back to INDIANAPOLIS and then to AMERSFOORT? ??? See the screenhost below…

It took some time, but we’re finally there. The program for the J-Fall conference of the NL-JUG (Dutch Java User Group) has been published. This time, we had the luxury of more proposals than we had available slots. Merely we had to disappoint some potential presenters.
I hope to welcome you on October 12th 2005 in [...]

It’s september, so the Call for Papers for the J-Fall 2005 conference of the NL-JUG is closed. We had over 40 submissions for this conference. Selecting topics will be a difficult task. We expect to have the program ready by the end of this week.

Taken from the JCP javaOne Highlights:
…Eugene Bogaart, a solution architect for Sun in The Netherlands, was also focused on customer needs. Attending JavaOne for the ninth time, Eugene had accompanied 35 customers to this year’s conference. His compatriots, lead architect Gero Vermaas and Klaasjan Tukker, the Dutch Java User Group chairman, claimed to have joined [...]

I’ve been working on an article for the coming edition of the Dutch JavaMagazine. This articles tells the story about the usage of the JavaCard with MIFARE (RFID) chip at JavaOne. Frosty also has a post about this. Actually he knows all about this. Thanks also goes to Kevin Mcdonnell and John Wetherill at [...]