Author Archives: Ken Fogel

About Ken Fogel

Java Champion, JCP Executive Committee Member, Vice-President of the Jakarta EE Ambassadors, NetBeans Dream Team Member, and conference speaker/organizer. Currently a Research Scholar in Residence at Dawson College after retiring from the classroom. Passionate about teaching and inspiring everyone to be better programmers.

Raspberry Pi, Java, and the GoPiGo3 – Part 1: Setting up the GoPiGo3

The following article assumes that you have successfully assembled the GoPiGo3 robot car from Dexter Industries. I found the assembly instructions well written and the parts are quite sturdy. I expected this considering that the GoPiGo3 is aimed at the education market rather than the hobbyist and to have a product that children will work with needs to be sturdy…. Read more »

Oracle CodeOne (JavaOne) Proposals for 2018

Thinking of presenting at a conference? I have been fortunate to speak at JavaOne these past four years. This year I will be presenting at ApacheCon in Montreal in September. What follows are the three presentations that I just submitted to CodeOne, the successor to JavaOne. I won’t know till mid June if any will be accepted. If you are… Read more »