Jazoon Rookies
This special event at Jazoon ’09 (sponsored, incidentally, by Canoo) gives three young Java developers the opportunity to give a presentations on applications they have developed. An expert panel will offer judgments on the quality of the presentation and the value of the presented application of Java technology.
The candidates:
- João Arthur Brunet Monteiro: “DesignWizard: A Tool that Gives Support to Automatically Check Your Code Against Design Rules“. Read the abtract!
- Bettina Polasek: “Modern Times in Software Quality Engineering“. Topics: Testing tools, Software engineering lifecycle, show cases. Read the abtract!
- Deni Lukmanul Hakim: “Showing a real 3D with JavaFX“. Topics: Integration and interoperability, Rich user interface technologies. Read the abtract!
On the panel:
- Dierk König: Author of “Groovy in Action” and Groovy & Grails committer
- James Gosling: Father of Java
- Bela Ban: Lead for the JBossCache project
- Corsin Decurtins: Jazoon Program Committee
João from Brazil gave a classic rookie pitch, meaning really natural, student like and above all free of product advertisement. Despite obvious nervousness, a very likable personality came through. The subject matter of automated checks e.g. dependencies, is as relevant as ever.
The Swiss/Hungarian presentation was well executed but very traditional in format. The speaker presented a number of slides which were in many cases text-heavy. This ALWAYS detracts from the actual speech. From my perspective, the reoccurring appearance of the candidate’s employer’s logo (an obvious advertisement) left a strange taste in the mouth.
On the content, the speaker is clearly very fixed on the idea of producing software in a production-line manner. We know from experience that this is not always possible or effective, which is how the agile movement was born.
Deni the Indonesian presentation didn’t suffer from too much text but did suffer from what sounded like too much like a JavaFX sales pitch. It became obvious that he loves to work for Sun and so everybody got a 15 minute product pitch. Unfortunately this left just 5 minutes, what was way too short for his project details – the main point of the talk.
Canoo’s Roland Zigerli attempts to gauge the degree of positive feedback from the audience by means of decibel measurement… but in the end it falls to the judges to make the final decision. And the decision is:
- 1st place: João from Brazil
- 2nd place: Bettina from Hungary/Switzerland
- 3rd place: Deni from Indonesia
Congratulations to all entrants!
