Talk to Me, Goose: Going Beyond Your Regular Chatbot

Session abstract

After his first steps into robotics and IoT, this session’s speaker decided to take it one step further: a more realistic robot that knows who you are and responds to your questions. Using chatbot technology and voice and face recognition, this robot can become a real add-on to your daily life. In this session, you will learn how the speaker extended an off-the-shelf solution with additional cloud technology to make these things work.

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Migrate From Java 6 To Java 8

Java 1.6 is almost at the end of the extended support period and will therefore be end of life soon.

In April 2014 Oracle extended the support lifetime for Java SE 6. End of Premier Support on Dec 2015, and End of Extended Support on Dec 2018.
Oracle

This article will try to give pointers to make a transition to Java 8 go smoothly.
What to expect and what to be alert for.
I will also try to explain why migration to java 9 or 10 is not advisable at the time writing this article.

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Joy Of Coding - 2018

The conference that’s your instruction manual for the art, craft, science and joy of software development

I’ll probably keep it to some pictures an quotes as I really want to enjoy the conference myself 🍺

Here a life blog about one of my favorite small conferences…

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Teqnation 2018

The Future is Open

TEQnation The Future is Open is the open source conference of the Benelux and will bring together a unique blend of IT architects, managers, disruptors, experts and developers. The Future is Open will feature presentations, tutorials, keynotes, workshops and hands-on labs.

The themes you will encounter are: Open (your) enterprise, Open Infra, Open Development, Open Future, Open collaboration (Community) & Open Labs.

In this blog I will document the sessions I will attend…

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