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		Carol McDonald As a Java Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems, Carol McDonald has spoken at various conferences including JavaOne, Java University, Sun Tech Days, Sun Network, Sun Code Camps, JDJEdge, and JUGs including Machester, Boston, Maine, Cologne, FAA, Richmond, Memphis, D.C... Carol blogs about the latest technologies that she is speaking about at http://weblogs.java.net/blog/caroljmcdonald/. Before returning to Sun in 2007, Carol worked 2 1/2 yrs as an Architect on massive OLTP Spring/hibernate application to manage > 10 mill loans for the consumer credit division of a leading automoblile manufacturer and a leading bank. Before joining Sun the first time in 1999 Carol worked on Pharmaceutical Intranet applications for Roche in Switzerland, a Telecom Network Management Application for Digital (now HP) in France, a X.400 Email Server for IBM in Germany, and as a student intern for the National Security Agency. Carol holds a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee, a B.S. in Geology from Vanderbilt University, and is a Sun Certified Java Architect and Java Language Programmer. Carol is also Fluent in French and German. Carol McDonald's blog Working for Sun, Oh, the places I have been Posted by caroljmcdonald on December 10, 2009 at 8:47 AM PST Working for Sun, Oh, the places I have been There was fun to be done, There was Java versus .Net to be won. There was butt to kick! There was .com and startups making $$ really quick I joined the high fliers who soared to high heights and saw some great sights How much can you win? We were the best of the best, on top of all the rest. then Bang-ups and Hang-ups did happen How much can you lose? We got all hung up in a prickle-ly perch. and then all of a sudden we were left in a Lurch. The EU took us toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place for people just waiting. waiting around for a Yes or No Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind. I made MY decision, I decided not to stay and I found another job so, I will be on my way! And the Tech Days gang will fly on. But I'm not crying because it's over. I'm smiling because it happened. Places I have been with Sun (some more than once): Amsterdam, London, Paris, Nice, Antwerp, Frankfurt, Berlin, Cologne, Athens, Budapest, Dublin, Warsaw, Madrid, Barcelona, Istanbul, Israel, Johannesburg, Sydney, Beijing, Shanghai, St.Petersburg, Hyderabad, Tokyo, Manila, Singapore, Taipei, Mexico city, Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Austin, San Francisco, New York, DC, Atlanta, Miami, Orlando, Manchester, Boston, Philadelphia, Raleigh, Charlotte, Memphis, Dallas, Seattle and probably some I forgot. It's been really great working for Sun on and off for 8 yrs. In my new job I will be working for http://availity.com/ Availity connects health care professionals with a smarter, online approach to electronic claims and other daily health plan transactions. » Login or register to post comments 438 visits Printer-friendly version Comments Comments are listed in date ascending order (oldest first) Will miss your posts and tutorials Submitted by rdgfoot on Fri, 2009-12-11 11:04. Carol, You have done a wonderful job of providing the "how-to" that is needed for all the clever things one can do on the Java platform. I will miss your content here on Java.net. Login or register to post comments I wish the best for you Submitted by felipegaucho on Fri, 2009-12-11 02:33. in your new job, your new song, your new old blog... stay around, don't hide.. we are so accostumed to have your among us that I can't imagine a java.net page without Carol ... Login or register to post comments		Categories Java Web Services and XML Java Tools Java Enterprise Netbeans Web Services and XML Web Applications Java User Groups Glassfish Databases Blogs Performance Java Distributed Data Acquisition and Control Security J2SE Archives December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 April 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 October 2007 September 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 January 2007 March 2004 October 2003 Recent Entries Working for Sun, Oh, the places I have been Wicket, JPA, GlassFish and Java Derby or MySQL The Top 10 Web Application security vulnerabilities Presentation