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Glenn Vanderburg

Glenn Vanderburg is a consultant with Delphi Consultants in Dallas, Texas. An early adopter of Java, he wrote the first advanced Java programming book, published in early 1996. Glenn speaks across the country on a wide variety of software topics, and enjoys helping his customers build powerful and cost-effective solutions.

 

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Collaboration Software (and a great demo)

Posted by glv on June 18, 2003 at 12:38 PM EDT

(After the flurry of blogging last week at JavaOne, I've had to concentrate on work for a while. But I have a lot of notes from the conference that I'll continue to write about for a while.)

Heading Out

Posted by glv on June 13, 2003 at 2:49 PM EDT

JavaOne is still going on for a few more hours, so a show wrap-up may be premature. But I have to leave early, so it's time to summarize my experience, at least.

Macs everywhere ... almost.

Posted by glv on June 12, 2003 at 1:35 PM EDT

The first conference I attended after getting my TiBook last year was O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, and I was amazed to see more Macs than any other kind of laptop there. JavaOne is a slightly different group of folks, of course, and I don't think Macs dominate here. But they're in the running. You see them everywhere you look, being used by attendees and presenters.

Community Seeding, Community Building

Posted by glv on June 11, 2003 at 6:13 PM EDT

I've been anticipating this reaction. It was inevitable. But we're not blogging JavaOne because we're being told to. I, at least, am doing so because I'm here, it's fun, and -- most importantly -- I think java.net is important, and I'd like to help it get off to a good start.

At least the comedy worked ...

Posted by glv on June 11, 2003 at 1:51 PM EDT

The "opening act" for this morning's general session was Don McMillan, a self-described "Engineer/Comedian" who started things off with an insightful, funny, and wonderfully geeky act. (I especially liked his necktie with the periodic table of the elements ...

Bitter EJB

Posted by glv on June 10, 2003 at 7:46 PM EDT

(This is a long blog entry ... you have been warned.)

Big conferences like JavaOne are always accompanied by the introduction of new books. This time's no exception.

One Big Happy Family

Posted by glv on June 10, 2003 at 3:44 PM EDT

I remember being at JavaOne in 1999 (I think) when I first heard the terms "J2SE", "J2EE", and "J2ME". I understood the reasoning for such a move, but at the same time I hoped they wouldn't go too far with the distinction.