Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 4th, 2009
As expected, JavaOne was interesting. For the first time in 12 years I actually attended more than a couple of sessions; but that isn’t why it was interesting. It was interesting because we witnessed the ceremonial passing of the Java One torch from Sun to Oracle and a fairly public goodbye from Schwartz and McNealy. [...]
Posted in Red Hat, Technology on May 3rd, 2008
For me, the main attraction of JavaOne is the opportunity to connect email addresses to faces – ie. it’s a great social and netorking opportunity – nearly everyone in Java-land (and beyond) will be there. This year, it looks like JBoss will have a pretty decent attendance. As well as the usual developer, enterprise Java, [...]
Posted in Enterprise, Technology on Mar 3rd, 2008
And now a word from my sponsor. It’s that time of year when you need to really impress your boss, so when you submit your expense request for JavaOne 2008 – they won’t have to think twice about letting you attend the biggest developer conference on the planet. The chances of me attending this year [...]