Looking at the clock it is now basically day three of Java One 2007 – it is just after midnight Wednesday with all the Thursday sessions starting up in a few hours. Considering that I should really jump to bed and get a shut eye, but there are just too many things going through my [...]

NetBeans 6 was the next victim of the marketing round. Rich announced that the OpenJDK release is completed today! Awesome – this rocks. We got a full open source Java system now. NetBeans is enabled for contributions. The interim governing board for the OpenJDK was announced and is starting with the creating a of a [...]

Jon Gage starting it all up today stipulating a first rule for the next 81 hours at JavaOne for all of us – Don’t be shy. Fair enough. As a motto for not being shy we should all forget our background. Be a Brazilian and embrace anybody you meet. Moving over we got to see [...]

Holy cow. I am sitting here in the general session hall. It is like a freaking aeroplane hangar. The projection wall is a 16:9 plus to 4:3 screen of massive size. I have no idea how many people are here, but there must be thousands. This is huge. I am sitting beside another Ubuntu user [...]

Wow. It has been quite a while and a wild run, since I posted about ten or so reasons why I would love to go to Java One this year. The anticipation in the community has been heating up more and more since then and I sure was not sitting idle either.

So I admit it – I am a greenhorn. I have never been to the JavaOne conference before and I really would love to go. Attending big conferences sometimes seems to be a waste of time to many people. However with the large active community around Java and all the excitement currently buzzing, it is [...]

I just finished watching this great video of a presentation of Joshua Bloch did at JavaPolis about API design. Yeah, Josh is the author of the must read book Effective Java and actually is working on a second editition. The presentation is titled “How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters”.

It is not that long ago that I wrote an Open Letter to Sun about Java on Linux urging Sun to provide better integration of Java on Linux. It looks like I was not the only one pushing and Sun surely made a splash last weekend.

Following my article about my Impressions from the Sun Developer Day in Vancouver we had a longer discussion about the day on the VanJUG mailinglist. I found that quite a few other developer also find Java integration on Linux to be appalling. We need to get this fixed!

Wow. What an exciting day. Time sure flew by. It all started with great weather and an awesome flight on the seaplane from downtown Victoria to downtown Vancouver. After all Victoria is only the capital of BC and Vancouver is the big city with all the busy developers, so thats where the developer day got [...]