Portland Java User Group (PJUG) Session and Slides

As I mentioned previously, I was going to be on the west coast for a few weeks and was invited to speak for the Portland Java User Group (PJUG).

The eventing was hosted by a recruitment company with pizza and drinks for all. We had 29 registered for the event an about 20 in the room when I kicked of the talk.

There was a lot of active discussions at the end and several attendees approached afterward about getting started on their own laptops with the workshop that was showcased.

Here is the abstract again and the slides:

Portland Java User Group (PJUG) - 10 Steps to Cloud Happiness

In a few weeks, on 24 April 2018, I'm going to be on the west coast of the US. I reached out to the local user groups some time ago and we've completed the planning to drop by for an evening of fun in the cloud.

It's very exciting to be presenting in my home town, something I don't think I have ever done before believe it or not.

The Portland, Oregon Java User Group, known as PJUG, will be hosting my talk. Register and let them know you're coming in the Meetup group.

My talk abstract is all about having fun on your own laptop:

Boston JUG - Evening of AppDev in the Cloud Workshop

Boston JUG

A few weeks back I spent an evening with the Boston Java User Group (JUG), a group I've visited through the years as part of my journey through the world of Red Hat product evangelism.

This is a smart group of developers that enjoy everything from core Java, business processes, business logic, Cloud and more.

It's always a group that I like to test my workshops on as they provide a good baseline of knowledge and user interaction, ensuring what I'm trying to bring to the application developer is actually resonating.

This evening was during the week of OpenStack Summit in Boston and gave me a chance to step out to the Rapid 7 offices downtown for pizza and good conversations around the topics of application development in the Cloud. There were 44 registered attendees and the hosts at Rapid 7 provided a fantastic area for the attendees to work in.

Let's take a look at what the workshop offers attendees and what that experience looks like.

Boston JUG - Getting hands-on with AppDev in the Cloud workshop

The week of 10 May I will be in Boston, MA for the OpenStack Summit.

That gave me the opportunity to reach out to the local Boston Java User Group to offer a hands-on workshop around application development in the Cloud.

The meetup is online and you can RSVP, note down the address and meet us there at the start time on Wednesday, 10 May 2017 at 18:00 hrs (6pm).

The workshop title and abstract are:

Peru Java User Group - slides available for JBoss BPM and JBoss BRMS sessions

The good people of Peru JUG have contacted me about presenting a session around the JBoss BPM Suite starter kit last week and a follow on session covering JBoss BRMS business rules starter kit. 

The session was recorded, you can use this link to view it, and the slides are available online.

Looking to Automate your business?

Hope you enjoyed this as much as I did putting it together and presenting it for the Peru JUG.

Peru Java User Group - Taking 6 steps to your first process project

The good people of Peru JUG have contacted me about presenting a session around the JBoss BPM Suite starter kit.

The session will give you 6 easy steps down the path to getting started on your first BPM process project. It will be made available online for the Peru JUG members to pursue at their leisure in the following weeks.

The session is to take place at 15:00 EST on Dec 6, 2015. I will try to post contact and login information once I have it or watch for it on my social media accounts (@ericschabell).

Taking 6 steps to your first process project

Want to design business processes, but not sure how to get started? First you’ve heard of Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite, or anxious to get started with your freshly downloaded JBoss BPM Suite? 

Then, this session is for you. 

JBoss BPM Suite starter kit can get you up and processing in 6 easy steps:

1. Provide you with the details, help, and a path to rules, events, and process freedom.
2. Show you a quick and easy entry into the world of process design.
3. Walk you through the contents of—and what you can achieve with—JBoss BPM Suite.
4. Provide a quick-tour series of video tutorials getting you started from scratch.
5. Let you use any of several pre-installed projects and workshops to take you step-by-step through constructing a project from scratch.
6. See how to make use of several workshops-in-a-can to host your own getting started events at work, with friends, or at a local user group.

Join this session:

• For a grand tour of the JBoss BPM Suite starter kit.



Looking to Automate your business?

• To learn how to hit the ground running as a BPM rock star.

The slides will be online hosted for all to enjoy and I will post follow up article with links to recorded video once available.

See you there?

UPDATE: This is the google hangout link you can request an invite from to join the session live, later I will post the recorded results should you be unable to attend live.

A Night of Hands On Rules, Events and BPM with the Peru JUG

Yesterday evening in Peru timezone and middle of the wee hours of the morning for me here in Europe, we held a BPM workshop online for the Peru JUG.

The group set up a hangout and we talked rules, events and BPM tooling for around two hours. I took them through the following topics over the course of the event:

• online introduction of the concepts
• toured the available starters kits for JBoss BRMS & JBoss BPM Suite
• examined some of the demo projects available online
• jumped into bpmPaaS usage with the Cool Store on OpenShift
• introduced the online workshop series

It was fun to interact with this group as they were full of questions around the strengths of the open source rules, events and BPM products. You can watch the recording if you missed it here:

This is the second continent where we have toured with our online BPM workshop series, next week we take it on the road on the east coast of North America.

If you would like to have this workshop series stop in at your local event, just let me know as I am happy to bring rules, events and BPM to your area.

Hope to see you soon!

Heading to South America with rules, events, and process workshop for Peru JUG

The good people of Peru JUG have contacted me about introducing their members to JBoss BRMS and JBoss BPM Suite by way of a workshop.

With tight schedules preventing travel to the region anytime soon, we have scheduled a virtual session where I will present from Europe to the audience in Peru.

Ain't technology grand!

The session will cover the basics of rules, events, and processes before introducing two workshops that will be made available online for the Peru JUG members to pursue at their leisure in the following weeks.

The details are not yet completely ironed out, so watch this post for updates in the comments and I will try to post the connection details should you want to jump on the virtual session from your own current location.

Rule the World - Practical Rules & BPM Development

With this workshop you get a chance to do just that, unlock the power of business rules engines and business processing for your development projects. We will take you through it all step-by-step, building rules, domain specific languages, using the wizards and editors that the JBoss BRMS & BPM Suite provide to create your own rules or process project. You have a choice in this workshop between an online web shop project or an HR employee rewards process project.

This is a hands on experience that takes you from nothing to a fully working rules or process experience with JBoss open source software. No experience in rules or processes is required, you will be guided by the experienced speaker and go home ready to apply what you have learned in your own projects. 

Date: 3 Sep 2014
Where: online, tbd
Time: tbd

Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite East Coast Tour in the Fall

In a few months I will be dropping in on Java User Groups (JUGs) and JBoss User Groups (JBugs) around the east coast of the USA.

These stops will be to provide JBoss BRMS & BPM Suite workshops that allow you to experience it all first hand, either on a local installation or in the OpenShift Cloud with our bpmPaaS experience.

Boston JUG

First stop will be in Boston for the Boston JUG, a group I have visited before and always enjoy seeing again. The meetup is scheduled for Monday, 8th of September starting at 18:00 hours. The abstract and location are to follow soon though you can bet on it being somewhere in Cambridge as that is where they tend to locate.

DCJBug

The next stop will be in Washington, DC for the DCJBug, a group more specifically targeting JBoss instead of just pure Java. The meetup is scheduled for Tuesday, 9th of September starting at 18:30 hours. Location will be at AEM Herndon Office, 13880 Dulles Corner Lane, Suite 300, Herndon, VA.

Look forward to meeting you all for some live coding, chatting, and JBoss fun.

Rule the World - Practical Rules & BPM Development

With this workshop you get a chance to do just that, unlock the power of business rules engines and business processing for your development projects. We will take you through it all step-by-step, building rules, domain specific languages, using the wizards and editors that the JBoss BRMS & BPM Suite provide to create your own rules or process project. You have a choice in this workshop between an online web shop project or an HR employee rewards process project.

This is a hands on experience that takes you from nothing to a fully working rules or process experience with JBoss open source software. No experience in rules or processes is required, you will be guided by the experienced speaker and go home ready to apply what you have learned in your own projects. 

(Depending on connectivity, potential to work on a bpmPaaS instance where you create your workshop project on an OpenShift hosted product.)

Toronto JUG - Report From Up North

Yesterday I had the honor of attending the Toronto JUG meeting. I happened to be in the area for another event so contacted the organizers and they were kind enough to fit me in before the main speaker.

I previously mentioned that there would be a talk by Marius Bogoevici (ex-JBoss'er) after which I was to do a lightning talk on JBoss Rules & BPM.

What's new in Java 8?

It turned out a bit different, as Marius had to call off sick, so they turned up for a set of short talks covering Java 8 release overview, a pretty fun robot war (attendees brought in pre-programmed robots and we watched 10 battles on the main screen), then I got the chance to lightning through a JBoss BRMS talk, and finally Jonathan (meet him here) tutored us on thread safety.
Fuerth (

I passed out the famous JBoss BRMS & BPM Suite laptop stickers, that went over pretty well. ;)

Warm group, great location.

We were located the Back room of the Free Times Cafe, 320 College St. in Toronto, which has nice food, good beers, and a pretty neat location to hold a JUG. They meet monthly so you might want to join them the last Thursday of every month for your network, knowledge, and social agenda.

JBoss BRMS & BPM Suite Lightning Talk at Toronto JUG

This week there is a Toronto JUG meeting, Thursday March 27th at 1830 hrs. I happen to be in the area for another event so contacted the organizers and they were kind enough to fit me in before the main speaker.

I will be there with Marius Bogoevici (ex-JBoss'er) who will be covering some ground on the Play! 2 framework after I give a lightning talk on JBoss Rules & BPM.

It is being held in the Back room of the Free Times Cafe, 320 College St. in Toronto.

Drop in if you are interested in these talks or just want to chat over beers.

Summary of the main talk
In the past few years, the Java ecosystem has seen the rise of a few frameworks that compete with (or complement) the established enterprise Java development model. Whether you see them as the next best thing, or a source of fresh ideas, getting familiar with what they have to offer is an important part of understanding the challenges and trends in the modern enterprise Java world. One of the most popular of these frameworks is Play!, which provides Scala and also Java developers with a highly productive and highly scalable web application development environment.

In this presentation, Marius will give you a hands-on-tour of the Play! Framework, in which we will build together a Play!-based application, showing you how:

• to create and set up a project
• build controllers and web pages (with a focus on Play!’s pretty cool Scala template system)
• integrate with a relational database
• integrate with a NoSQL database (i.e. MongoDB)
• secure your application
• build a REST/JSON set of web services to integrate with an HTML5/REST architecture
• write unit and integration tests… and time provided, as many more details as we can fit in!

Presenter Bio: Marius Bogoevici is the Senior Server Architect for Infinity Quick, Inc., where he develops the backend of Poptalk (http://poptalk.me), the mobile application that brings your messaging to life, and where the Play! framework has helped, along with other, more mainstream enterprise Java frameworks (e.g. Spring), to building a highly performant and scalable architecture. Prior to joining Infinity Quick, Marius has been active in the Java OSS space while working for Red Hat and SpringSource, where he actively took part to the development of a number of open-source Java projects such as JBoss AS, Weld (CDI RI), Spring Integration. Previously speaking to JBoss World, DevNexus, Java One and Spring One and happy to return after almost three years with a talk to the Toronto JUG, Marius is also the co-author of “Spring Integration in Action” (Manning, 2012)

Boston JUG Report - Zero to Hero with JBoss Business Rules Primer

Japanese translation (日本語訳)

I mentioned last week that I would be at the local Boston JUG and we did the session covering all that you need to know about JBoss Business Rules & Business Process Management.

We covered the session and I provided the attendees with a set of labs for their entertainment (let's call it homework) to further explore the details discussed this evening. I also demo'ed a few of the projects that you can get started with and provided the links for the attendees to grab the code.

For an impression of the event I snapped a picture or two:

Boston JUG Jan 2014

We now have a few new rules & BPM heroes in the make around the Boston area!

Zero to Hero with the JBoss Business Rules Primer

Thanks to all that made the trip out into the cold, I really enjoyed meeting you all!

Japanese translation (日本語訳)

Java User Group (JUG) - Boston Meetup Zero to Hero with JBoss Business Rules

At the end of January I will be touring through the Boston area on my way to Chicago where we are gathering for the ChicagoJBUG.

On January 31, 2014 at 18:00 hrs in Boston there will be a JUG meetup where I have been invited to make hero's in the JBoss Rules & BPM space.

Zero to Hero with the JBoss Business Rules Primer

This session will get you started with JBoss Business Rules and BPM. It will walk you through some of the capabilities, components and basic concepts that one needs to understand to start building process and rule-driven applications. Join us for an hour of Business Process Management (BPM) concepts, explanations of how to capture your enterprises logic in business rules and a demonstration or two from real live processes that bring these concepts to life. Take a walk with us through several live demos where we explain step by step what is happening and how you too can reproduce these locally. By the end of this session you too can amaze your friends and colleagues, becoming the local JBoss Rules & BPM hero!

See you all there!

JBoss year in review 2012

This has been quite a year for me, with a big jump to a new adventure from JBoss Solution Architect in the Benelux region to JBoss Technology Evangelist (JTE) in the JBoss Middleware Business Unit.

I could not be happier since making this move. I have been able to get a lot done for the field that I was not able to do like demos, howto blogs and more.

Writing

I love to write. It is that simple. I have been lucky enough to find time to write on all kinds of projects this year. Blogging was a big theme with seventy five (75) articles in 2012. You can find the JBoss content here, on dzone.com and over at howtojboss.com. I have joined with Java Code Geeks site and was invited as a DZone MVB which means both sites republish content from my blog. I have published several articles at JAX online, several over at Computable.nl and a book called OpenShift Primer at DeveloperPress.com. I also lined up a Chinese translator and you will find links at the bottom of my articles that direct you to a translation.

I even found some time to work on a novella and a few short stories are in the works as I write this, all non-technical in nature. A writer writes, everything!

Cycling
This year we got our first ever Red Hat / JBoss branded cycling gear. I logged over 2k km in places like the Veluwe, Limburg, Belgium and even participated in the ALS tour for a good cause (106km in 4,5 hours)!

I finally split out my tweeting on cycling to a new account @RedHatCycling, check it out if you want to keep up on my adventures on two wheels.

Travel
I sure got to move around this big old world this year, starting with the first 6 months as a JBoss SA and finishing with story telling trips as a JTE:

• Paris, France
• Luxembourg (YaJUG)
• Lisbon, Portugal (PTJUG)
• Mallorca, Spain
• London, UK (Cloud Tour, Red Hat Dev Day)
• Rome, Italy (Codemotion)
• Amsterdam, Netherlands (Cloud Tour)
• Boston, MA (JTE interviews, JBoss World / JUDCon, Boston JUG)
• Portland, OR
• Brussels, Belgium
• Antwerpen, Belgium
• Berlin, Germany
• Crete, Greece
• Chicago, IL
• Beijing, China (RHTC / RHPT)
• Aarhus, Denmark (GOTO)
• Munich, Germany (JBossOneDay)

Looking forward to the coming year, with new products, new travels and new stories to tell! 

Video Recording: An OpenShift Primer for Developers to get your Code into the Cloud

The great group over in Luxembourg (YaJUG) put up a recording on parleys.com of the OpenShift session I gave in January 2012.

I cover lots of OpenShift, so enjoy!

Video Recording: JBoss Brings More Power to your Business Processes

The great group over in Luxembourg (YaJUG) put up a recording on parleys.com of the jBPM5 session I gave in January 2012. This took place after a previous talk and I have just changed 'uniform' to put on the JBoss shirt.

I cover BPM, jBPM and the jBPM Migration project. Enjoy!

Portugal JUG (PTJUG) - a night of jBPM and OpenShift

As previously posted, I was in Lisbon last week to meet with the Portugal Java User Group (PTJUG) and present on the jBPM5 project followed by OpenShift.

The flight into town is worth mentioning as you come into the city itself, making for some really spectacular views of castles, old churches and just beautiful Portugese architecture stacked against the hills of Lisbon. It was also great to come from the colder Netherlands into a summer temperature of 16 degrees (for my home location, that is summer)!

Bull fighting ring

The location was the Instituto Supirior Technico, situated right close to the center. I had a bit of time to get ready so on the advice of my hotel I walked two blocks down the road in the lovely summer like sunshine to view a bull fighting ring. Set the mood for the event session!

I arrived at the event location to be greeted by a group from the PTJUG and we got settled in the room. Before we started they made sure I met each and everyone that was attending, from consultants, engineers, developers, analysts, managers and even a professor. It was a very relaxed and sociable group of guys (not to forget, the single lady that showed up to claim the first ever OpenShift Ladies T-shirt!). We had a total of ~30 people show for the talks, but I forgot to actually count. I did notice that the 40 OpenShift t-shirts I brought did not survive the end of the event!

jBPM 5
We talked jBPM first, with quite a bit of interaction as there were users with experience in jBPM3 in the audience. We demo'ed the round tripping, jBPM console, the diverse IDE tooling support and looked extensively at the web designer. I also provided a peak at the early access bits of the upcoming JBoss Business Rules Management System product that will contain the newer jBPM5 components.

There were some questions around the various integrations and an interesting request to provide an open source evaluation of the new jBPM5 to place along side the existing one on the Workflow Patterns site. We also spent time discussing and digging into the jBPM Migration project as a preview of what the migration possibilities might be moving forward.

JBoss Brings More Power to your Business Processes (PTJUG) 

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OpenShift
After a short break we moved on to the OpenShift session. This talk was about getting the audience into the session, so I pushed actually from the start of the entire event to have them sign up for an OpenShift account with their laptops and to follow along. We walked through the Express setup, client tools and focused a lot in the demo section on the Java tooling provided by JBossTools project. This was enforced by doing the demo through both Eclipse with JBossTools and with JBoss Developer Studio 5. This early release version integrates the OpenShift wizards and tooling to get you started.

An OpenShift Primer for Developers to get your Code into the Cloud (PTJUG)

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The event concluded with a nice discussion around the possibilities of clustering Express instances, how to interact between two nodes of Express and what the advantages of Flex would be. Some of the audience had already used OpenShift for personal projects. I was asked if I wanted to come back before the end of the year to talk about OpenShift updates as the Open Sourcing and exposing the cartridge API will be of great interest for this group.

It was a great time with experiences Java users, jBPM users and the interaction was nice during both talks. I really enjoyed this event and look forward to meeting up with the PTJUG anytime in the future!

Portugal Java User Group (JUG) - on tour with jBPM and Openshift

I will be in Lisbon, Portugal on Feb 16 at the Portugal JUG with sessions on  jBPM and OpenShift. The abstracts are below and will soon be published on their JUG site, but it is in Portuguese so you might need some translation help!

JBoss jBPM Brings More Power to your Business Processes

A Business Process Management System (BPMS) offers you the capabilities to better manage and streamline your business processes. JBoss jBPM continues its vision in this area by offering a lightweight process engine for executing business processes, combined with the necessary services and tooling to support business processes in their entire life-cycles. This allows not only developers but also business users to manage your business processes more efficiently.

A lot has happened in the BPM area over the last few years, with the introduction of the BPMN 2.0 standard, the increasing interest in more dynamic and adaptive processes, integration with business rules and event processing, case management, etc. In this session, we will show you how jBPM5 tackles these challenges, discuss migration to this new platform and give you an overview of its most important features.

An OpenShift Primer for Developers to get your code into the Cloud

Whether you're a seasoned Java developer looking to start hacking on EE6 or you just wrote your first line of Ruby yesterday, the cloud is turning out to be the perfect environment for developing applications in just about any modern language or framework. There are plenty of clouds and platform-as-a-services to choose from, but where to start? Join us for an action-packed hour of power where we'll show you how to deploy an application written in the language of your choice - Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl or Python, with the framework of your choice - EE6, CDI, Seam, Spring, Zend, Cake, Rails, Sinatra, PerlDancer or Django to the OpenShift PaaS in just minutes. And without having to rewrite your app to get it to work the way the cloud provider thinks your app should work. 

Check the command-line fu as we leverage Git to onboard apps onto OpenShift Express in seconds, while also making use of the web browser do the heavy-lifting of provisioning clusters, deploying, monitoring and auto-scaling apps in OpenShift Flex. 

If you want to learn how the OpenShift PaaS and investing an hour of your time can change everything you thought you knew about developing applications in the cloud, this session is for you!

The schedule is shaping up like this:

• 17h30 - Welcome and registration
• 18h00 - JBoss Brings More Power to your Business Processes
• 19h00 - An OpenShift Primer for Developers to get your Code into the Cloud
• 20h00 - Drink and Networking

Location will be at Instituto Superior TA(c)cnico (IST), see you there? ;-)

Luxembourg Java User Group (YaJUG) - OpenShift and jBPM session recap

Room filling up, ~50 attendees!

Last night I was on site for an evening with the YaJUG, hosted in the Tudor building which was a very nice venue in downtown Luxembourg.

There were around 50 participants and the interaction was rather lively, I think I got something like ~20 questions around just the OpenShift session! The questions ranged from the obvious to the more cunning where participants not only want to be able to tinker with apache configurations but also auto scale their Express instances or even try to cluster the 5 free instances we offer them. I love that kind of ingenuity!

His first app on OpenShift
by end of the
session!

I wanted to emphasize the ease with which anyone can get their applications running in the OpenShift Express cloud instances. I challenged the group from the start by asking anyone with a laptop to get it open and try to deploy their first application into the OpenShift cloud by the end of the evening. As you can see in the picture, Weber Phillipp (I think it was actually his little brother if I am not mistaken...) came up to me at the end to show his results, well done!

 Later I followed up with a look at OpenShift Flex where most of the more Enterprise type of questions were answered. Check out twitter tag #yajug for their comments, but be aware, some of the feedback is in French.

 The second session was an overview of the status of jBPM 5 and included a rather in depth discussion of the upcoming BRMS 5.3 as there was some real interest in the JBoss product that are supported. There were several jBPM 3.2 users in the crowd, so spend some time demo'ing not only jBPM5 but the web designer and jBPM Migration Project tooling that has been integrated there.

The sessions were recorded so the YaJUG members will be provided a link to them soon via their site and a photographer was also enthusiastically taking lots of pictures! We planned to record my session desktop for the demo's, but the recording failed to start.

An OpenShift Primer for Developers to get your Code into the Cloud

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JBoss jBPM, the future is now (YaJUG session)

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UPDATE: The session had a photographer that was busy snapping away:

JFall 2011: jBPM Migrations - providing a path into the future of BPM

My submission about the jBPM Migration Project for the NLJUG JFall conference:

 jBPM Migrations - providing a path into the future of BPM
This session will outline the status of our jBPM migration tooling project. We will take a look at the background of jBPM 3 process projects and how we plan to help you migrate to jBPM5. We will start by providing you with a plan for positioning your existing Enterprise jBPM projects for the eventual move towards jBPM5. This will cover the architectural layers involved, a look at the tooling being created for this and steps you can take to ensure a smooth transition moving into your jBPM future. Finally we will demo the existing tooling on an actual existing enterprise jBPM projects. This will provide you with real life scenarios to take home as examples for your own BPM projects. The presenters have over 6 years of combined enterprise jBPM experience and have completed award winning BPM projects in the Netherlands. They initiated the jBPM migration tooling project to assist the community with their migration concerns.

 See you there in Nijkerk on 2 November 2011?