Since 2008 I missed only one EclipseCon Europe, the annual Eclipse Conference held in Ludwigsburg, Germany. This year the program committee accepted a talk from us about deep learning in general and DL4J as an Eclipse Project. Having a talk accepted from the committee is always an honour and a pleasure, but this time it was particularly special for a couple of reasons:
Therefore, when I entered the theatre for the Mike Milinkovich’s keynote, I realized once again how big is that theatre. |
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I was still thinking about all this when Mike welcomed on the stage the Deeplearning4j team lead, Adam Gibson, which has joined the conference as a last minute decision. |
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Oh my! I would have held a talk on DL4J just in front of its creator Adam Gibson! Getting involved in deep learning with DL4J and the YouTube video As always it could have been better, but anyway: it was over and I could finally enjoy the event! First goal: start greeting and have some chat with a number of friends that we meet regularly every year at this great conference. This conference is held every year in late october at the Schlosspark Forum in Ludwigsburg. |
And every year, in this week, the talks are scheduled from Tuesday to Thursday, while on monday there are meetings among special groups and projects as a time dedicated to make a point about the progress and take decisions for the future. Indeed Tuesday morning is a special time: several 3-hour tutorials are held on different topics and you can just participate with your laptop and to learn from the experts. During the tutorial you are helped personally in order to keep the pace while working on the examples. |
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I followed the one on Theia, a new cloud and desktop IDE and platform which is revolutionizing the development approach. Here is the TypeFox team that is behind Theia. |
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But Theia can be also be used as a platform to build your own application, all with a high degree of customizability, similar to Eclipse RCP. If you have a public project on GitHub, then you can start using Theia just by installing Gitpod Online IDE extension, go to your code and press the green GitPod button: you can edit your code inside the browser! The conference is indeed a join of two events: the EclipseCon Europe and the OSGi Community Event. Moreover it includes a number of talks dedicated to Project Quality & Testing. There were a lot of talks about hot topics as Java9+, IoT, containers (Docker, OpenShift, but particularly on Kubernetes). |
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Eclipse Che is also another very interesting project: in essence it is a workspace server and an online IDE (it uses Theia for this!). |
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The cool thing about this event is that every talk (and they are really a lot) is now online on YouTube!! |
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