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Blog Archive for gsporar during May 2007

Unlike past years, I did not blog during JavaOne this year. I posted one entry the day before JavaOne started, providing a recap of NetBeans Day San Francisco. But other than that, I was silent. This was by design. I find that time spent blogging takes away from time spent going to sessions, socializing, and most importantly, sleeping. This blog will serve as a substitute. It is a bit...
After several years at the Argent Hotel, for 2007 NetBeans Day San Francisco moved to the Moscone Center. The room at the Argent was no longer large enough. There were 1,380 people registered for this event. Actual attendance at the opening general session looked to be around 1,000 (last year we had about 800, the year before about 550). This year for...
It is deja vu all over again.... Last year on the Sunday before JavaOne it was unseasonably warm in San Francisco. At 3:00 PM this afternoon the temperature was 81 F (27 C)! And just like last year, I was walking along minding my own business and I came across two guys that I know eating lunch. Last year it was Michael Kölling and Ian Utting. This year...
Part 2 of the memory leak article I wrote with Sundar has been published. This time around we added our co-worker Frank Kieviet as an additional author. As with Part 1 of the article, the editors at Software Test...