I attended
the technical session by Ethan Nicholas
on the JAXX Framework last
week at JavaOne.
I downloaded it yesterday and spent a few hours experimenting
with it. I'm still skeptical - I really miss having a graphical tool for
doing layout. But the NetBeans IDE
is a big tent - so for those of you who
are interested, here are the steps I used to get some basic support for
doing JAXX...
The BOF went well. There were about 300 people who showed up, which is pretty good
considering that the
After Dark party was going on.
The idea behind this presentation
is that when you want to debug a memory leak there are two techniques you can use:
walking the heap and instrumentation. Each approach has strengths and weaknesses
and in my view there is not one correct technique for all...
Closing Day Keynote
This was the Scott McNealy and James Gosling show. And I think even people
who hate Sun (and there are people who feel that way) would agree that it
was pretty entertaining. A full recap is here.
Scott made jokes about how his life has
improved now that he is no longer the CEO. Then James came up on stage
and showed a tribute movie that recapped Scott's career at Sun....
IBM Keynote
I slept late and skipped the IBM keynote presentation. I wanted to go, but
I had to get some rest. My BOF was scheduled for 8:30 that evening and
I didn't want to be yawning as I was doing it. As it turns out, the "IBM
Keynote" was really an "Eclipse keynote." More details
here.
Collaboration
So the day started out at a slower pace. Geertjan
asked me to be
signed on to the...
This will be quick.
The opening keynote was from Oracle. Thomas Kurian, along with several of his employees who did demos. All in all reasonably impressive. But I could not help but notice that the first demo was done with Eclipse and the subsequent demos were done with JDeveloper. The first demo involved creating entities from a database for a Java EE 5 application. All very similar to what...
General Keynote
This was mostly the Jonathan Schwartz and Jeff Jackson show.
Jonathan started out with a somewhat confusing
offer of free hardware. I think the intent was for folks
to go to this web site to get more details,
but oddly he didn't provide the URL. He then brought several
people up on stage to make announcements. The highlights:
Mark Shuttleworth
of Canonical came up to to...
This is the third year that
NetBeans Day San Francisco has been presented in
conjunction with JavaOne. Each year it gets bigger and better.
Last year
we had over 550 attendees. This year the count was
just over 800 - another standing-room-only crowd. If we can continue
that growth rate, then in just six more years or so we'll have
to do this at Candlestick Park. :-)
Tim Cramer,
Sun's...
I try stick to serious stuff in this blog. Things that I think
can be helpful to folks who are doing software development,
especially if they are using the NetBeans IDE or building on top
of the NetBeans Platform.
But this week is JavaOne. So I will deviate a bit from the norm
and at times things might get a bit irreverent. Today we
had NetBeans Day San Francisco, 2006 (more on that in
a...
I never expected the weather in San Francisco to be so
nice and warm at this time of year. But it has been a
beautiful blue-sky day. I spent some time acting like
a tourist; it's been years and years since I got to do
that in this city. I took the photo while hanging from
a cable car. It was stopped at Lombard Street - you can
see...
I was going to call this entry "I Have a Memory Leak Fetish," but
that just sounded too weird.... :-)
I have never been able to completely explain my fascination with memory leaks.
I assume it is related to my general interest in what I like to think
of as "forensic software development." You know the drill: a big
pile of code (which you may or may not have written) is broken and
no one...
