Blog Archive for hansmuller during June 2005
It's JavaOne 2005, Monday afternoon, and I'm drifting around Sun's
booths on the tradeshow floor. Moscone's meeting halls are two
stories tall and underground; it's a basement palace. The cavernous
space used by the tradeshow Pavillion must be a quarter of a mile long
and a hundred feet high and it's abundantly and artificially lit.
It's like being in an aircraft hanger that's inexplicably...
I was in a technical meeting recently, with about a dozen developers,
and the discussion topic turned to AJAX. We were seated at tables in
the usual presenter-in-the-center horsehoe configuration. Each
participant was ensconced in a defensive posture, behind a big laptop.
The tenor of technical meetings has changed over the years, thanks to
technology. Complex adjustable office chairs...
