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javaone vs oracle code one

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Oracle announced that they are turning JavaOne into Oracle Code One.  There was a lot of Twitter chatter that week. I want to add my two cents.

Tracks

First off all, JavaOne had two non-Java tracks last year:

  • Emerging Languages
  • Oracle Code: Containers, Microservices, DevOps, Databases, APIs and MOre

That means that 2/7 or approximately a quarter of the conference was already not about Java. I realize that’s not exact. Some of the topics in that quarter were about JVM languages. But it does show that JavaOne reflected the reality of polyglot developers and didn’t focus on “just” Java. (I think I remember there being some JavaScript stuff too, but maybe I’m remembering wrong.)

Two conferences

It’ll be interesting to see what if anything moves Oracle OpenWorld to Oracle code. Some of the Oracle technology specific sessions are about coding so maybe it is time for them to move.

Piloted at city events

Oracle ran Oracle Code in different cities. I went to (and spoke) at the New York City one. There was a good amount of Java there. There were also a good number of talks Java developers would find relevant even if they weren’t specific to Java. If that ratio of talks at Oracle Code One matches Oracle Code, I’ll be one happy developer.

Naming

  • DevNexus is a “Java focused” conference; they call themselves the second biggest Java conference in the US (or world; I forget.) They have non Java sessions – DevOps, JavaScript, etc. But no .NET at this time so they do cover what a JVM stack developer wants to know. Note they don’t Java in the name either and nobody is crying.
  • CodeRanch is a forum that used to be named JavaRanch. It’s still mostly JVM language focused, but the name also reflects that it is more than “just Java.”

Advice for Oracle

Remember the community. Jakarta EE might not belong to you, but it is an important part of the community. Make sure there are still talks on it.

Sentimentality

Change is hard. Personally, I really wanted to speak at JavaOne. So glad I got to last year before the opportunity was gone. That said, Oracle Code NYC was a good event so I expect Oracle Code One to be as well. And I want to speak there too. So now I have a new goal :).

Conclusion

The world isn’t ending. This isn’t the death of Java or the conference.  What makes “JavaOne” the flagship conference isn’t the name. It’s the people/venue/event/scale. So if you are a Java community leader/speaker, go again. Don’t make “the death of JavaOne” a self fulling prophecy.

And now off to submit my application…

twitter and two factor take two

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In 2014, I tried to enable two factor on Twitter and had to turn it off. Given the recent news that Twitter encourages everyone to change passwords, I decided to take another stab at it. I also learned that Twitter has more options for two factor now like Google authenticator.

Step 1: Changing the password

First, I changed the password. I clicked on the drop down with my picture and chose “settings and privacy”. Then I choose password and changed it. I got an email letting me know the password changed. Good.

Step 2: Surprise step – review apps

Twitter then reminded me that I have 18 applications that can access my account and asked if I wanted to review them. 18 sounds high so I said yes. There were a few general categories:

  • Apps with read only access – given that pretty much everything on twitter is public, I don’t mind that I gave a few sites access to read my profile. I did find one that was just for a one time test and doesn’t need it anymore.
  • Piping my tweets to Facebook – yes. I definitely want this.
  • Various twitter clients – some I don’t use anymore so cleaned this up a bit as well.
  • “social reputation monitoring” – it says I gave this site read/write/direct message access in 2015.  I don’t remember this and I certainly don’t want them to have it anymore. Revoke!
  • Linked in – While I don’t mind them having read access, I don’t want them having write access. Revoke. Same with Disqus. I wasn’t nearly paranoid enough in 2013.

Now I have 13 apps with read (or read/write) access. Still a lot, but at least I know what they are. It’ll be interesting to see which of the read only ones break. “I don’t mind” is different from “I really want it to work”

Step 3: Login verification (two factor)

As I was looking for two factor, I saw “login verification” under account options. That turns out to be what Twitter is calling two factor. I guess it sounds less scary.

However “setup login verification” was disabled. It says I need to confirm my email to turn this on. Ok. So how do I do that? It appears the only way to get a confirmation email is to change your email address. It was a bunch of steps, but I did:

  1. Change to myRealEmail+twitter@gmail.com (because gmail lets you add a plus and more text and still sends to you)
  2. Enter twitter password to confirm it is me
  3. In email, click confirmation
  4. Repeat these three steps to switch back to and confirm my “short form” email. (so I remember what I gave them)

Ok time to turn on two factor with SMS

  1. In account settings, click “setup login verification”
  2. Click start
  3. Enter twitter password to confirm it is me
  4. Send SMS code
  5. Enter SMS code from phone
  6. Generate a backup code in case I ever have issues

Now I have the option to setup alternate two factor methods

  1. In account settings, click “review your login verification methods”
  2. Click “setup” next to mobile security app
  3. Use google authenticator to scan the barcode
  4. Enter the generated code from google authenticator into twitter

Finally, I clicked “edit” next to text message verification so I am just using google authenticator and not text message.

Step 4: My twitter clients

Ok. Now for the test. Can I use Twitter in the devices I care about most? Things seem to work. Will post an update if that no longer stays the case!

Updates:

  • I can still use twitter on all my devices. So I don’t get prompted to login after the password change or two factor. It only takes effect for new logins. (This is good; I have a lot of places that I am logged into twitter.)
  • I got an email from an identify monitoring service that they no longer have access to my twitter. This service only told me about my own tweets so I’m leaving them without access. I was hoping they would tell me about other people’s tweets. I know what I tweet. And as fun as it is to be told I used the word “password” in my twitter…