June 2005

Doug getting his Dukie @ JavaOne

June 29, 2005

Sounds painful, doesn’t it – Here is a picture of Doug Pedrick, accepting the Dukie for GE Healthcare. Here’s the gang at the Keynote. Pictured left to right: Jim Cornelius, Me, Doug Pedrick, Jon Eagles and Troy Birk.

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Disappointed at JavaOne

June 29, 2005

I have to say that I have been disappointed with the quality of technical sessions at this year’s JavaOne so far. It may be that I’m picking sessions that suck – But every session I’ve been so far hasn’t gotten me excited about the topic. All the talks I’ve attended so far have been PowerPoint [...]

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JavaOne Keynote – Day 2

June 28, 2005

The 2nd day keynote started off with John Gage as usual. After a few housekeeping items, Scott McNealy came on to deliver the keynote. No real news beyond the acquisition of SeeBeyond. I usually would skip Scott McNealy’s talks but actually went because a friend of mine that works for GE Healthcare was getting a [...]

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BEA and Spring sitting in a tree…

June 27, 2005

After lunch, Mark Carges, the new CTO of BEA Systems, hosted the second general session. Mark started by talking about ‘Liquid assets’ and pitches the new Aqua line of products at BEA. He started off by talking about Java application frameworks. He claimed that Java application frameworks were the most important productivity-related innovation since the [...]

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JavaOne Keynote – Day 1

June 27, 2005

John Gage kicks off the first day with his usual routine before turning it over to Jonathan Schwartz, the COO of Sun. The basis premise of his talk was that technology has a social utility and participation drives economic and social progress. He also talked about how blogs and wikis are changing how information gets [...]

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Sun going to open-source their application server

June 27, 2005

Doug Pedrick, the Uber GE geek just pointed out an article in the San Francisco Chronicle. It’s also on Sun’s site and so it’s official. I wonder if this is an attempt to kill Geronimo.

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JavaOne – Day 0

June 27, 2005

Flew into San Francisco yesterday early enough to attend some of the festivities going on around JavaOne. Apparently Market Street was blocked off for the Pride Parade and I missed all the excitement. After registration, we headed down to the NetBeans Day to check out the latest happenings on the NetBeans front. This event was [...]

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JavaOne sessions I’ll attend

June 24, 2005

Ok – I think I finally have the list whittled down to just the JavaOne sessions I want to or need to attend. I’ve got the duplicates down to a minimum and now just need to figure out which BOF’s I can blow off to attend some of the vendor parties and catch-up with friends [...]

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[OT] Save PBS & NPR

June 23, 2005

I know this is a little off-topic for this blog, but the idiots in Congress are at it again and this time they are trying to cut funding for PBS and NPR. PBS and NPR produce a lot of great commercial-free television and radio shows in the US. I never miss shows like FrontLine, NOVA, [...]

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Geek Book Club

June 22, 2005

The votes are in and the next selection for the Geek Book Club is Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices by Robert C. Martin. The next meeting is on Friday, July 15 at 7:30am at the Panera Bread location at Mayfair Mall. Be there or be square

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