2010-08-28 Saturday - Google bails on JavaOne this year

A sad development for JavaOne this year...
http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-javaone.html

2010-07-22 Thursday - Oracle OpenWorld / JavaOne 2010 - Registered!

I received confirmation this morning that I'm registered to attend Oracle OpenWorld / JavaOne 2010 in San Francisco (September 12-23, 2010) - as a Blogger :)

http://www.oracle.com/us/openworld/index.htm

2009-06-01 Monday - JavaOne - in the Pavilion

A quick walk-through the JavaOne Pavilion this afternoon...about 30-40% of the exhibitors are companies that I have not heard of before - so this is going to be a very productive trip.

My friend Dean Wampler just suggested a Ruby site: futureruby.com

I'm waiting for a confirmation on a schedule for an interview with the Terracotta executives sometime Tuesday or Wednesday morning.

I have an interview setup with SpringSource executives for this Thursday.

This morning I interviewed Omer Trajman, Senior Director, Cloud and Virtualization, for Vertica Systems, Inc. (vertica.com)

2009-05-25 Monday - Preparing for JavaOne

I'm doing some background reading to prepare for my trip next week to JavaOne - here are some of the articles I've read:

Programmers are People, Too - by Ken Arnold, July 6, 2005

Outsourcing Java SE, by Daniel H. Steinberg, 07/12/2006


Cameron Purdy's The Seven Habits of Highly Dysfunctional Design

"There are a number of design decisions in Java and its related libraries that I have complained about on more than one occasion, but I wanted to write down some of my thoughts as to why I believe that they are bad design decisions, how they could have been better, and thus how to avoid inflicting similar pain on others."
Part 1: Useless data types: Date, Date, Time and Timestamp
Part 2: your face! BigDecimal, BigInteger and BigMistake
Part 3: Idiot interfaces: Cloneable, Serializable, Remote, Entry
Part 4: Idiot exceptions: RemoteException, SQLException
Part 5: AWT or Swing or SWT or Java2D or ...

Year in Review: What to Expect in Java SE 7
An overview of features in (and out of) the next Java specification.
By Alex Miller
December 19, 2008

Pure Danger Tech - Alex Miller’s technical blog

"This page lists the proposed features in Java 7 and information about them"

Java Community Process (JCP)

Stephen Colebourne's Weblog - Ideas and musings from a Java developer (some good links to Java 7 topics)


forums.sun.com

James Gosling's Letter to the Java Community

James Gosling on Open Sourcing Sun's Java Platform Implementations, Part 1

James Gosling on Open Sourcing Sun's Java Platform Implementations, Part 2

http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/

openjdk.java.net

community.java.net/openjdk

java.net


java.net Editor's Daily Blog

Jonathan's blog: Will the Java Platform Create The World's Largest App Store?


Kelly O'Hair's Weblog (blogs.sun.com) - 12 recommended JavaOne sessions

JavaOne Advance Conference Guide

2009-05-19 Tuesday - JavaOne 2009 Roving Reporter

2009-05-21 Update:
I'm confirmed to attend JavaOne in San Francisco this year as a roving reporter for Linux Magazine.

I last attended JavaOne in 2004 - and have diversified my conference exposure over the years to include things like the No-Fluff-Just-Stuff conference, contributing twice to presentations at the Seattle Code Camps, and attending my first QCon Conference last year in San Francisco.

This year I will definitely be back at QCon again - that is a not-to-be-missed conference.