Sang Shin's journey to JRSL09 conference in Santiago, Chile

Sun Java Evangelist, Sang Shin recently wrapped up a 5 day trip to the JRSL conference in Chile. JRSL09 is community organized conference by open source enthusiasts in South America. Countries (Argentina, Chile, and a few other countries except Brazil) take turns hosting the event. This year's event was attended by ~1100 people. Sang's talks: "Java SE 5, Java SE 6, JDK 7", 3-hour JavaFX workshop (2 hour lecture + 1-hour hands-on lab) [a couple folks currently using Flex, asked me if JavaFX supports "Flex remote object binding(?)" kind of capability. I told them JavaFX supports RESTful Web services API which should suffice for most remote communication needs]; Ruby/JRuby/Rails workshop. Sang, also attended a 2-day Mozilla conference. Highlights: Firefox now command 23% of the browser market world-wide; In some countries (some European countries), the market share are close to 50%; During the 9-month period, the Firefox usage went up from 5 million to 9 million in the South America region; Mozilla guys seem to be very confident that they will keep gain market share at the expense of IE; OpenVideo in HTML 5 will make flex/flash a dinosaur, eventually, but it will take a few years. Sang's trip was sponsored by: Exelsys, a ~50-person consulting company who specialize in Java EE-based financial apps for the Chilean banks...more info at javapassion.com ***Sang will next be speaking at DEVOXX.

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