{"id":250,"date":"2010-07-06T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-03-20T12:49:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T11:49:29","slug":"nyac-cooluary-2010-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/2010\/07\/06\/nyac-cooluary-2010-review\/","title":{"rendered":"NYAC & COOLuary 2010 review"},"content":{"rendered":"

NYAC<\/a> stays for Not Yet Another Conference, and it gives a promise I was happy to verify. The event took place in Cracow on 19th-20th of June, thanks to Grzegorz Duda<\/a>. Tough timing I\u2019d say, just a week before Javarsovia, but the audience was supposed to be small, so that wasn\u2019t a problem. NYAC was actually two things: a one day conference with carefully chosen speakers that got a bit more time than usually, and another day of an unconference. If you didn\u2019t have a chance to participate in an unconference <\/a>(Open Space Technology), it\u2019s totally people driven. Everyone is able to start a meeting, and it\u2019s usually a discussion, not a lecture.<\/p>\n

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But let\u2019s start from the beginning. I got there on Friday evening, and my luck was definitely with me, as I bumped into<\/p>\n

Pawe\u0142 Lipi\u0144ski<\/a> at a gas station. He warned me about the post-soviet hotel, so we walked back carrying loads of beer, that helped shield us from the ugly face of socrealism and it\u2019s terrible architecture. Well defended, together with Wojtek Erbetowski,<\/a> we spend the late hours enjoying the drink and a smalltalk. The first day started.<\/p>\n

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So what\u2019s so different about NYAC, you ask. First day is just a conference, after all. True, but Grzegorz had a great idea, to make a survey about the best polish java speaker. He used the outcomes to invite some of the most interesting people in our field. He asked them to make a few lectures, one after another, and he gave them more time than usually (which turned out to be not enough anyway), and a much smaller audience. The effect? Well, it\u2019s like a difference between a stadium-sized concert, and a jam session in a private house.\u00a0 The second one allows you to be more involved, and get much closer to the source of fun. Is it the way to do conferences? Yes, but only if you have the top guys out there. And that was the case. Have a look at the<\/p>\n

agenda<\/a>, the only problem you could have is to decide which session to choose from.<\/p>\n

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Fortunately, being here and there, I\u2019ve already seen some of the presentations, so it was a bit easier to me.<\/p>\n

S\u0142awomir Sob\u00f3tka<\/a> had three great talks about Craftsmanship, Domain Driven Design and JPA\/Hibernate traps (we all know that JPA 1.0 was a big step backward, compared to pure Hibernate, but S\u0142awek had some really great examples of the most popular pitfalls). Szczepan Feber<\/a> with \u0141ukasz Milewski gave us a handful of good tips about continuous integration. Igor Czechowski talked a bit about his nightmares with Maven. Pawe\u0142 Lipi\u0144ski warned me that I may not find anything new in his talks, so I skipped them, but I really wish there was a camera, since Pawe\u0142 is a great speaker and it\u2019s always refreshing to see his enthusiasm. All together it was a condensed, great event, that I\u2019ve left with a nice set of notes and a mind full of thoughts. Then there was a party, though Grzegorz didn\u2019t give the address, just the name of the pub, and as with all the names, it was easy to forget and hard to find using GPS. Great aspect of going to so many conferences (I\u2019ve been to six this year) is that eventually you get a nice pack of people to drink with, but with such a small scale (there was something about 50 attendees) it\u2019s easier to get to know everyone and not feel lost in the crowd anyway. \"\"<\/a> Some people stayed till like 3am, but since I was kind of on a mission gathering\/crunching knowledge, I decided to get back at midnight. The second day was all about self organized groups of talkers. We had a flipchart where everyone could post a proposal, then we grouped together similar topics, and sorted them out considering whether the guys we wanted to join in, were leaving early or waking up late. Seriously. After all, talking about DDD without S\u0142awek or about A\/B\/TDD without Pawe\u0142 would be like wasting resources. The only \u201creal\u201d presentation that day, was a sponsored talk from Tomasz Skutnik (e-point) about class loaders in JEE, and it was unexpectedly good, I must say.<\/p>\n

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I also had a chance to animate a smalltalk, which I used to confront and verify some of the ideas I\u2019ve been preparing for my Javarsovia presentation. The feedback was good, and some of the points from the discussion helped me to refactor my final talk. All together it was a great weekend, and I can recommend NYAC\/COOluary with my heart. It\u2019s a moving conference, every year in a different city, so stay tuned to Grzegorz\u2019s site, and don\u2019t forget to visit the event whenever you have a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYAC stays for Not Yet Another Conference, and it gives a promise I was happy to verify. The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[21],"class_list":{"0":"post-250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news-events","7":"tag-conference"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15350,"href":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/15350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touk.pl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}