Silveira Neto

This monday I and others ambassadors from all over Brazil went to São Paulo to have a quick meeting with Crawfor Beveridge, executive vice president and chairman, EMEA, APAC and the americas at Sun Microsystems.

As we cant see all ambassadors at FISL was a good oportunite to meet all brazilians ambassadors, olds and new ones. Lucas Torri bring to us some cool OpenSolaris shirts and gifts from JavaOne 2008 (where he was showing Project Marge).

I could also see some places in I don’t knew in the building, like the room for demostrating products. I saw very interesting backup devices from Storage Tek (now also part of Sun).

Maluf introduces us to Crawford

Jomar Silva

Eduardo Lima

We had an presentation with Jomar Silva, General Director of the Brazilian Chapter of the ODF Alliance, about ODF advances in Brazil. Eduardo Lima showed details of Sun Campus Ambassador Program in Brazil and also this cool videos about Open Source and OpenSolaris made by Vitório Sassi, Bruno Souza and Rafael Tinoco.

Me and Crawford Beveridge.

Almost all northeast ambassadors in a quick pizza dinner in the airport.

The complete album is available here.

Every year in Porto Alegre, Brazil, is placed the biggest free software event in the world. Is the International Forum on Free Software, FISL. This year the event counted with 21 countries, 257 presentations and more than 7 thousands hackers, students, developers and entrepreneurs together sharing knowledge and making friends.

Just a few hours after NetBeans in Fortaleza. I was flying to a long trip to Porto Alegre (almost a entire day) to join in three events, the FISL 9.0 itself and also OpenSolaris Day Porto Alegre and Javali 2008.

I like my coffee like my Solaris, Express. Installing a newer version during a free time in the airport.

At OpenSolaris Day I presented High Performance Computing and OpenSolaris showing an introduction about parallel computing concepts and a little bit about how to take advantage of OpenSolaris for HPC, using tools like ZFS and Dtrace for OpenMPI. Was a good presentation and I got good questions.

After the OpenSolaris Day/Javali 2008 we all had a pizza party. I was really sick during my presentation, I’m not familiar with temperatures beyond 25° and that day was 8°.

The presentation I prepared for FISL was “NetBeans: Beyond Java” showing a little bit how you can use NetBeans to develop using Ruby, C, C++ and others languages. I’d like to show that NetBeans is more than a Java IDE. I showed more about the Ruby and Ruby and Rails integration.

Some photos:

My second presentation on FISL was about JavaFX. This presentation was not really planned and I have just a couple of days to organize it. Fortunately I contacted the JavaFX community from openjfx project and immediately I got a lot of help to build some material. A very sincerely and special thanks for James L. Weaver who helped me immediately a lot. Thanks too to the Planet JFX community and their material.

Was really a good demo. I was more relaxed than in my Netbeans presentation and also I got a excellent feedback.

More photos:

Thirtankar Das talked about project Indiana.

Rafael Vanoni talking about OpenSolaris kernel scheduling.

Roger Brinkley talking about PhoneME.

Fracois Orsini, me and Ted Goddard.

Gregg Sporar on Java memory leaks.

Raghavan “Rags” Srinivas on Java runtime.

Louis Suarez-Potts and Vitorio Y. Furusho talking. See also this excellent interview with Louis.

Ray Gans on OpenJDK.

Rich Sands also on OpenJDK.

Gary Thompson showing a Sun SPOT vehicle.

Rafael David Tinoco on UltraSparc and OpenSparc.

Sérgio Amadeu da Silveira, Roberto Andrade e Marcelo D’Elia Branco in a informal retrospective about Campus Party.

Lucas Bortolaso Torri and Bruno Cavaler Ghisi talking about Marge Framework.

Rich Sands, me and Eduardo Lima

Be at FISL was a dream for me for a long time and finally I could achieve this year, and more specially participating as speaker. In the other hand, I spent lot of time finishing and preparing my demos and could not completely enjoy the event itself, but was a really good event, I meet a lot of people I only knew by mails lists and also meet a lot of people from Sun’s staff.

Porto Alegre is also a very beautiful and well preserved city though I had almost no time to see it. And if during the daytime I almost don’t ate, during the night I went to very good restaurants and churrascarias. I went back to home some kilos fatter.

• ps.: I took hundreds of photos. There a set of them in my Flickr.
• ps. 2: I tried to put the name of all who appeared in my photos. If I did a mistake, let me know, please.
• ps. 3: I had a problem with my file system and I lose those slides I presented in FISL. The only available is High Performance Computing and OpenSolaris.

As the earlies versions of OpenSolaris, my terminal is without colors. That’s a little annoying. As the default user uses Bash you can configure your Bash options in the file ~/.bashrc. Insert in the last lines of your .bashrc file:

alias ls=’ls –color=auto’

Save, close and open your terminal (or just type source ~/.bashrc).

Como era previsto, o dia hoje começou cheio de novidades.

Os portais OpenSolaris.org e OpenSolaris.com ganharam novas roupagens mais voltadas para o público final. A distância entre entrar no site, conhecer um pouco sobre o OpenSolaris e baixar uma isso diminuiu consideravelmente. Finalmente podemos chegamos ao ponto que o Ian Murdock tocou no seu clássico post “Where do I download OpenSolaris?”. Agora nós podemos simplesmente dizer, clique aqui!

Nova cara do OpenSolaris.org

e a nova cara do OpenSolaris.com

E não é só o site do OpenSolaris que mudou. Também acaba de ser lançado o OpenSolaris 2008.5 ou para os mais íntimos, Projeto Indiana. A intenção do projeto era exatamente essa, criar uma distribuição mais amigável e voltada para os usuários finais. Assim mesmo um usuário de estações de trabalho poderá ter os benefícios de um sistema de arquivo como o ZFS ou uma ferramenta de tracing como o Dtrace. Além disso de ter todos os benefícios da userland GNU.

A partir de agora quando nos referirmos a OpenSolaris, estaremos nos referindo também a distribuição OpenSolaris e não somente ao kernel OpenSolaris.

Novo tema do gerenciador de boot grub que vem com o OpenSolaris

A instalação também ficou muito mais fácil graças ao Projeto Caiman que proveu um dos melhores instaladores que eu já vi. Em uma única ferramenta em estilo next-next você tem todas as ferramentas para instalar o OpenSolaris, inclusive um particionador embutido.

OpenSolaris Package Manager

O Image Packaging System também está disponível e agora integrado com o Package Manager inclusive com suporte a repositórios. Você ainda pode usar as linhas de comando comandos pkg install <pacote> e pkg unistall <pacote>. A esse screencast mostrando como usar o Package Manager e se você é familiarizado com o apt-get há essa tabela comparativa entre o pkg e o apt-get. Uma coisa interessante é que há uma integração entre o IPS e o sistema de arquivos ZFS possibilitando voltar para um estado anterior do sistema antes de instalar um pacote.

O repositório padrão no momento é o pkg.opensolaris.org que nesse momento tem poucos pacotes, menos de 5 mil. Você pode instalar adicionalmente outros repositórios como o sunfreeware.com, abra um terminal como root:

pkg set-authority -O http://pkg.sunfreeware.com:9000 sunfreeware.com

Você pode ver seus repositórios com o comando:

pkg authority

Para mais informações dê uma olhada no documento Getting Started with OpenSolaris 2008.5. No Brasil e no muno estarão ocorrendo nos próximos dias installfests, eventos, palestras e demostrações sobre essa nova distribuição. Informe-se onde ocorrerá o evento na sua cidade.

E é claro, baixe e experimente.

Ou se você preferir, também via bittorrent.

Those days Gregg Sporar, NetBeans enthusiast working at Sun Microsystems was here in Brazil and went to our city Fortaleza to speak in our NetBeans Day Fortaleza. We had only a couple of days to prepare everything but is always good work under such pressure.

Me and my friend (Cassiano Carvalho) could toke care of him. First we got Gregg at our international airport, Pinto Martins from a flight from Recife. After that we went to a typical food dinner at Coco Bambu where’s Gregg could taste our tapioca and figure why our local JUG (CEJUG) event is called Tapioca with Coffee.

After that we went to the hotel but we did not have realized that that day was the birthday of our city Fortaleza and the birthday party was a public concert at beach of one of most famous artist in Brazil, Roberto Carlos.

Roberto Carlos in the early years…

For those who are not Brazilians, To have an idea what Roberto Carlos is, just imagine (in a smaller proportion of course) some kind of Brazilian Elvis Presley. When we quited the restaurant the show was just finished, we had a huge crowd walking back for everywhere, streets blocked, mess and traffic extremely slow. We spend about two hour on this. We decided to park the car, get Gregg’s luggage and go walking the hotel. Luckily the rain don’t caught us.

In the morning was raining cats and dogs at Fortaleza, what is very uncommon.

I picked Gregg at the hotel to the campus so we can meet the NPD (acronym in Portuguese for Data Processing Core) building, the Internet backbone of the entire state and where some projects are using NetBeans. Gregg also met our CS department, our labs and our cluster.

While that we prepared the auditorium and some last details, test microphones and projector.

People started to get and we got their names and mails for event certifications. I opened the event talking about NetBeans, CEJUG projects and opportunities for the students.

People from TV Software Livre (Free Software Television) was there too to record and transmit the event.

The first Gregg’s talk was about NetBeans and some new features from the last version of NetBeans and some new features for the version 6.1.

The second was about Memory Leaks in Java and a method for detecting those. Very interesting.

After Gregg quited to fly to Brasilia I did a presentation on NetBeans 6 and 6.1 Beta news features. You can download Gregg’s slides here and here, my slides here.The recorded video is hosted at Google Video. You can see more photos in this album:

Gregg, thank you very much and hope you liked your quick visit to Fortaleza. Thanks also CEJUG and all guys that made this event possible.

These are the slides for the presentation this Thursday at the first meeting of Java Students Group (JEG) at UFC. Is about Sun certifications in general and also a brief look over SCJA.

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As usually, you can download the slides as ODT or PDF.

See you there.

Updated: Thanks for your presence. Let’s try it again soon.

You can find more photos here.