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...