Isabella, my second oldest daughter, just made the cutoff to be featured on one of the very popular “Mommy Blogs” out there, Totally Tots. Way to go Bella!
Archive for June, 2009
19 Jun
#JavaOne Brain Dump Resources from Memphis JUG Meeting
I promised that I would post the links I mentioned in my talk last night at the Memphis JUG…here they are: General Session Replays: http://java.sun.com/javaone/2009/general_sessions.jsp BlogTalkRadio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/JavaOne JavaOne Minute: http://channelsun.sun.com/video/channel-you/javaone+minute/23867338001 Technical Sessions 2008-2009: http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/ (Must be SDN Member – FREE!) The Da Vinci Machine Project: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/ Groovy: http://groovy.codehaus.org Java.net Community Corner: http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javaone/CommunityCorner JUGS Community: http://community.java.net/jugs/ [...]
17 Jun
Book Review: Career 2.0 – Take Control of Your Life
I’ve finally published my review of the EXCELLENT book by Jared Richardson and Matthew Bass at DZone. Check it out here: http://books.dzone.com/reviews/career-20-take-control-your.
9 Jun
#JavaOne 2009 Return of the Puzzlers: Schlock and Awe
For several years now, Neal Gafter (Microsoft) and Joshua Block (Google), have made a habit of presenting various incarnations of this technical session, focused on what they call “Java Puzzlers.” Java Puzzlers are nothing more than short Java programs with curious behavior. It is a somewhat interactive session, with each puzzler’s code listing followed by [...]
5 Jun
JUG-USA Meeting with James Gosling at #JavaOne
On Wednesday morning, JUG-USA was fortunate enough to get about 45 minutes with the “Father of Java” himself, James Gosling. Each year at JavaOne, Sun distributes registration discount codes to interested JUG’s. The JUG with the most registrations using their code gets this meeting. JUG-USA’s founding allowed us to use a bit of strength in [...]
4 Jun
More connecting at #JavaOne 2009
I happened to catch Guillaume LaForge’s tweet this morning about a “Groovy lunch” at JavaOne today. After our JUG-USA meeting with James Gosling(blog entry on this one to come), I made my way over to the “cafeteria” and found Guillaume, James Williams (of the Griffon team), and John Smart in exactly the location that Guillaume [...]
3 Jun
#JavaOne 2009 Script Bowl
The JavaOne 2009 Script Bowl was quite a delight to watch. The players were Jython (Frank Wierzbecki), Groovy (Guillaume LaForge), Clojure (Rich Hickey), Scala (Dick Wall), and JRuby (Thomas Enebo). The event was divided into two rounds: Demonstrating Language Features Demonstrating Community Contributions Each of the players focused on different angles during the language feature [...]
3 Jun
JUG Leadership: Lessons Learned – #JavaOne Java.net Community Corner Podcast
Here’s the link to my slides from my podcast Wednesday morning from the Java.net Community Corner: Download PDF.
2 Jun
Reactions from #JavaOne 2009 Opening Keynote
The morning session opened with a HUGE elephant under the rug – “Where is Oracle?” There’s no booth in the Pavilion – super strange. Things kicked off very slowly. Jonathan Schwartz, Sun CEO, for all of his ponytail excellence, wasn’t exactly inspiring a great deal of excitement in the crowd. In fact, the loudest applause [...]
2 Jun
Java™ Technology on Google App Engine: #CommunityOne 2009 Lightning Talk
My second lightning talk at Community One West 2009 revolved around the still relatively recent announcement that Java is now supported on Google’s App Engine. What exactly is Google App Engine? It’s none other than a way that you can run your Java™ technology-based applications on Google’s massive infrastructure. As far as the “Geekxecutive Summary,” [...]
