Blog Archive for sfharris during June 2005
I've never attended a JavaOne conference where the final keynote has failed to pique my interest and this year is no exception. James Gosling always comes up with some interesting stuff. This year he featured the GUI builder (Matisse) that looks very slick; a mobile app development tool capable of debugging an app while it's running in the actual phone; and a small (40 pound) unmanned aircraft...
I was sitting in the java.net booth waiting for the next presentation to begin when the person sitting in the next row turned around and gave me a look of recognition as if he knew me. I was quite certain I had never seen him before. "Hi", I said. "Still going...?", he asked. That was the title of my most recent blog on java.net and I finally understood where we had met before.
He introduced...
I really enjoyed the morning keynote today. Scott McNealy described "the digital divide" and how Sun is helping to bridge the gap. He talked about all the efforts to apply Java technology around world (both from within and outside of Sun) to improve quality of life in such areas as education and health care. By providing great opportunities for people outside the company to participate and...
Always a lot of great information at the keynote. Lot's of talk about Sun's many new and (in some cases) improved tools. I must admit, I was drooling over the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation for only 29.95 a month (nobody said when the payments would end). Didn't manage to get a piece of the Java's birthday cake but it looked good.
The march of the computer languages never stops. It appears that there...
It's the day before the really big show - JavaOne 2005. I can feel the energy in the air, everyone is excited to see what this year's conference will bring.
This year, I was invited to join the java.net Community Leaders in their first ever mind meld, aka the Community Leaders weekend. I spent the weekend at the Sun Microsystems office, listening to lots of really great ideas and meeting the...
