Esplanade 307

All the JavaOne sessions I was interested in seeing today met in one room, which limited the amount of line-standing I needed to participate in. Unfortunately, I had to miss one, but a boy’s gotta eat some time.
This particular room is huge. I’m pretty bad at estimating volume, but I would guess it seats at [...]

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Queueing

To form a line is the natural instinct of JavaOne attendees. Lines are everywhere at this thing. There are thousands of attendees, and only about 10 or fewer sessions going on at once. It’s easy for even a seemingly obscure session to be at standing room only. And you have to be prepared if you’re [...]

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Feast or Famine

JavaOne 2005, Day 2. I slept in and missed the opening General Session. No huge loss, though I caught the tail end on the huge monitor showing it outside the room. Apparently Scott McNealy gave James Gosling a Java Lifetime Achievement Award, which I’m pretty sure he referred to as a “Dukey”. Now, I realize [...]

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I’ve never needed them before…

Business cards have always been little more than a novelty to me. As a coder, I rarely spend much time in groups that find much currency in them. And so I never even considered bringing any along for this trip to JavaOne. How silly of me. Of course, conferences are a perfect time to unload [...]

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JavaOne, Part 2

In the second general session for the day. It’s being lead by some guy from BEA. I didn’t think it’d be that interesting, so I planned to do some blogging. And here I am. But, lucky for me, BEA was using this forum to announce their partnership with Spring, and will be officially supporting the [...]

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JavaONE, part 1

Monday morning. 8AM. JavaONE. Moscone Center. San Francisco.
Between my hotel and the JavaONE pavilion, I’ve already had 3 pastries and 2 cups of coffee. Who knew there’d be so many free muffins?
I don’t know why I decided to do this. I guess I wanted to be that kind of Java geek. I’m not the only [...]

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Out like a lamb

Ani walking in the sunset

Originally uploaded by shaug.

May 2005 is over, and I’ll miss it.
This past month, I celebrated my daughter’s first birthday. And what a celebration we had. Three out of four grandparents traveled from distant lands to help in the festivities. On her [...]

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