Thursday was an interesting day, but tiring. The third day of a conference always seems to be the roughest in terms of comfort level. One or all of the following is guaranteed to be aching at any given time:
Feet: From standing around talking to people or waiting in line
Back: From lugging around the asymptotically increasing contents of your backpack
Butt: From sitting on those innocent-...
I don't get to do a lot of whizzy graphical stuff in my day-to-day work. I mostly do the typical back-end, multi-threaded server kind of thing. I spend most of my time thinking about API design, framework architecture, robustness, correctness and so on. I blogged yesterday about some excellent sessions that address those sorts of concerns.
But I also like to look into other interesting...
The big announcements today were centered around JavaFX and Blu-Ray, as expected. Neil Young was entertaining (I guess that's not surprising, he is an entertainer after all). There was the usual execu-speak about initiative-this and monetize-that. OK, fine. Whatever.
I focused today on fundamentals - specifically code correctness.
First up was a talk by Josh Bloch, More Effective Java,...
Holy smokes, is it JavaOne again already? Didn't we just do this a few months ago?
I work at a fast-paced startup and have only just returned from a two-week vacation. So I feel as though this JavaOne is sort of taking me by surprise because I haven't prepared for it as much as I usually do. And yet I already feel as though I'm right back into the swing of things.
The announcements and...
