Get a Cow or a Cowes or go to Devoxx

[Campbell Ritchie]

Write a limerick starting

A Java developer from Cowes
…

Marvellous prize, but you may have to meet me at Devoxx.

[Jaikiran Pai]

To add to what Campbell noted - CodeRanch is offering 1 free ticket (yes, a free ticket) to Devoxx UK 2014 http://www.devoxx.co.uk/ which is scheduled for June 12-13 2014.

The event boasts of a wide range of sessions from prominent speakers from the industry http://www.devoxx.co.uk/schedule-2014/. One of our moderators is attending the event and some of our current and ex-moderators are presenting at the event.

To stand a chance of winning the ticket, all you have to do is participate by posting a limerick in this very thread. You can even post more than once. Members with the most number of cows who post a limerick which we think is the best, stand a chance to win the ticket to Devoxx UK 2014.

This contest ends on Friday, 6th June and winners will be announced by Saturday 7th June.

[Mark Lewin]

A Java developer from Cowes
Was sick of the continual rows
Over which one was best:
Java or .NET
"Give me cross platform any day!", he vows.

[Tim Cooke]

A Java developer from Cowes
Before noon he seldom would rouse
  His aversion to morning
  Caused many a warning
The 'Job Section' he'd soon need to browse

[Dieter Quickfend]

A Java developer from Cowes
Was tired of his Enterprise ploughs
So he fashioned a sword
Pinned his job to the board
And forced Spring into businesses' mouths.

[David samueal]

A Java developer from Cowes
Always tops the (Programming)house.
Offered with a PC/Laptop for coding.
But a better code came from a mobile is the ending.

[Michael Chuks]

A java developer from cowes
Has spent so many hours
Making his point that java platform was the internet's power.
Learning python and other language
For him was some strange adage
But he learnt that not being polygot was gonna be a disadvantage
he went down on sql
added trending html
and with javascript on the server side he was smart with node js

[K. Andrija]

There once was a guy who wanted a Cow
He yelled to the crowd 'Give me one right now!'
Word was that he wanted to visit Devoxx
And that if it takes he would ride an wild ox
But instead he got some lame mocks
He drowned his sorrows with whisky on rocks

[fred rosenberger]

A java developer from Cowes
thought "I want to code better, but how?"
he read lots on the ranch
then forked a new branch
and his software's the cat's meow

[Tim Cooke]

A Java developer from Cowes
Had an unhealthy obsession with cows
  He talked about cows
  He dreamed about cows
He really was fond of those cows

[Gian Franco]

A Java developer from Cowes
struggled with giving his vows.

Pondering his orientation
he wandered lonely around the nation.

"Am I straight am I gay, a prince or a toad?"
was the question he asked, as he walked down the road.

Then he stopped in the middle
and shouted "STOP with this fiddle!"

"I'll say it now or else I'll explode.
I love you! I love you! I love you, my code."

[Hari Hara Sudhan Karuppiah]

A Java Developer from Cowes,
lost his partner in middle of his age,
searched for real reasons to survive,
drenched in tears,
finally found Patience as his partner..
before it died yesterday!!

[umesh rawat]

A Java developer from Cowes,
A java developer moments of Wows,
A Java developer is not in the nerdy Race
ready to make the world a better Place .
put the soul to learn all the Hows,

[Joanne Neal]

I think a few people might need to read this.

Kudos to Tim Cooke for following in the footsteps of John Clarke and parodying Edward Lear.

[Tim Cooke]

Joanne Neal wrote:Kudos to Tim Cooke

Thanks. This is a lot of fun.
I'm also taking full advantage of the fact that nobody said you can't enter more than once....

[Dieter Quickfend]

A Java developer from Cowes
Wrote code with his head in the clouds
He caused the decline
Of software design
Confusing the why with the how

[Tim Cooke]

A Java developer from Cowes
Was tired of scratching his brows
  In need of diversion
  Tried out some recursion
A Java developer from Cowes
Was tired of scratching his brows
  In need of diversion
  Tried out some recursion
A Java developer from Cowes
Was tired of scratching ...
...
...

[Anton Sotnikov]

Hello everyone!
Who knows is there online (live transmission) ???
Thanks!

[Jaikiran Pai]

Tim Cooke wrote:
I'm also taking full advantage of the fact that nobody said you can't enter more than once....

No restrictions on how many times you post. In fact my instructional post says:

You can even post more than once

[Robert James Liguori]

There once was a cow named Lance,
Who hung out at the Code Ranch.
  He posted away,
  At least once a day,
And then Devoxx he headed by chance.

* Btw, he had a special cow-enabled keyboard in which to type.

-- Robert

[Joanne Neal]

Anton Sotnikov wrote:Hello everyone!
Who knows is there online (live transmission) ???
Thanks!

Of the limerick competition ? I believe you can receive an email notification whenever there is a new post - is that live enough for you ?

[Ralph Moulton]

A Java developer from Cowes
The last thing she penned
JavaDoc at the end
More sense does her coding arouse,
When bottom up is how you browse.

[Mark Lewin]

A Java developer from Cowes
Was writing his limericks for hours
For a chance at Devoxx
He would write lots and lots
Though not as many as Tim Cooke has done now

[Anton Sotnikov]

I believe you can receive an email notification whenever there is a new post - is that live enough for you ?

I didn't understand what you say, excuse me.

[Jaikiran Pai]

Anton Sotnikov wrote:

I believe you can receive an email notification whenever there is a new post - is that live enough for you ?

I didn't understand what you say, excuse me.

Anton, there's a "Watch topic" button on this thread which you can click to start getting email notifications whenever there's a new post in this thread. That's the only live transmission that you can get of this limerick contest.

Edit: Actually hold on. I just read your first post in this thread again:

Who knows is there online (live transmission) ???

Are you asking if the Devoxx UK 2014 event will be streamed online live? If that's what you are asking, then you'll have to check their website http://www.devoxx.co.uk/. As far as I know, it won't be streamed online but I think the videos of the recorded events will be uploaded at a later date. You'll have to check their website to be sure.

[Joanne Neal]

Jaikiran Pai wrote:Edit: Actually hold on. I just read your first post in this thread again:

Who knows is there online (live transmission) ???

Are you asking if the Devoxx UK 2014 event will be streamed online live? If that's what you are asking, then you'll have to check their website http://www.devoxx.co.uk/. As far as I know, it won't be streamed online but I think the videos of the recorded events will be uploaded at a later date. You'll have to check their website to be sure.

I think that was what was being asked as well, but as this was in MD I couldn't resist 'accidentally' misinterpreting it.

[Sai Hegde]

A Java developer from Cowes started to cuss
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()){sheep++;}

[Roger Sterling]

A Java developer from Cowes
Was so sour about quinse Ciao's
The lady he wist in Petunia
Could drink all blest Neptunia
falling down was he of her Braus.

[Ashish Ramteke]

(imaginery poem: )
A Java developer from Cowes
Had once a big time playing with cows
The cows would love the one
And the one too had fun
Were the cows were from Cowes?

(couldn't decide what to write as the last line, but there it is.. )

[naresh kumar nand]

Passionate Java developer who thinks is a Java knight,
started his travel from its old version 1.2 to eight.
To get a chance of winning a ticket by giving a fight,
and hoping to get relaxed in Devoxx night.

[Tushar Goel]

A Java developer from Cowes,
India is place where cows are sacred,
cows are the one which we are waiting to get.

[Daniel Clinton]

Studying for OCA Java I exam at the mo.
Only just registered today.
JavaRanch seems like a really helpful forum!
Hope this is ok for a first post. Lol

    A Java devel'per from Cowes
    Elected to code in a blouse
          His team were offended
          And punched him to end it
    He output a series of 'OW's

[Jaikiran Pai]

Welcome to CodeRanch, Daniel!

[Daniel Clinton]

Jaikiran Pai wrote:Welcome to CodeRanch, Daniel!

Thanks Jaikiran!
Just thought up another
(should to be studying tho!)

A Java developer from Cowes
Had a mind to reprogram his spouse
    Scant moral compunction
    Let him alter her function
To bypass their marital vows

[meenakshi sundar]

A Java developer from Cowes

but I can tell you anyhow,

as a liberated cows graze the plains

i am chasing the CLOUD liberating my ignorance-chains

i am your master now,The holy cow takes bow

the Java developer goes for a jolly ride( Devox)

the cow giggles in a holy pride

[Jaikiran Pai]

A lot of good ones so far. Keep going, today is the last day and the winners will be drawn tomorrow. Good luck!

[Tim Cooke]

A Java developer from Cowes
Had never done testing 'till now
  "I'll need help from a fella
  like Lasse Koskela"
That dev would gladly avow

[Tim Cooke]

A Java developer from Cowes
Had never refactored 'till now
  "For such an endeavour
  I'll need Michael Feathers
To show me just where, what, and how"

[Tim Cooke]

A Java developer from Cowes
was sick of StackOverflow rows
  With a Google and a grumble
  On CodeRanch he did stumble
An unbounded source of know-hows