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A lot of great things are called prologue these days ;-) My thumb still hurts from driving the Audi R8 for three consecutive hours trying to beat my lap time on the Eiger Nordwand. Still gotta buy one of these. JavaOne 2008 is around the corner and closing in fast. It’s gonna be quite the busy schedule. It would probably be a wise idea ...

This blog entry is a combined piece of coverage for JavaPolis days 3, 4, and 5, in other words: The Conference. I have several reasons for doing this not in the least because of the very busy schedule and the bizarre problems I ran into with the wireless provider at the hotel. It appeared that the access that I bought from within my hotel room was ...

Most of the slides of the JavaOne conference are online by now. They were temporarily taken offline after the conference and moved to the JavaOne Online site where you can download 'em free of charge. Multimedia session will be added to the same site over the next month.

The last days on JavaOne were one big roller coaster, ending with me back at work, having loads of coffee, seriously jetlagged on monday. I do still remember most of it though, so here are some of my nuggets on the things I've seen in the last two days of JavaOne 2007. First off some announcements on the next release of Eclipse: Europa. Since ...

So this time a combined blog entry for conference days 3 and 4. Right now I’m thinking about explaining why I did that and come up with some lousy excuses for not filing a separate day 3 report, but the truth is that the conference has really taken it’s toll on me and the hangover from last night isn’t really helpful either. We ...

As I’m just returning from the JUG leaders BoF session and the hour is late, I will probably keep this entry short. Day 2 of the conference was another interesting day. The morning keynote was presented by Oracle and they did a good job at making it a show. They had two announcements. One is the additional open sourcing of a new set of rich ...

After some sleep, a big breakfast and loads of coffee it was time for day 2 of the JavaOne. Today's morning session was done by Oracle. Like usual Oracle did some cool scripted demo's that showed how to create a complex SOA/AJAX application by using drag & drop. Demonstrated on tools that are basically nightly builds of a technical ...

This day, the JavaOne conference started for real. Sun like usual opened with some major announcements saved for the occasion. The open source Java project is now fully live, all the code is now available. Real Time Java is available, bringing a full fledged real-time solution for Java, which is accurate enough to control supersonic aircraft. ...

I once again have the privilege of attending JavaOne in San Francisco. This morning the official day 1 general session kicked off and with it comes 81 hours of JavaOne. If you’ve been there before, it’s easy to tell what the first 20 minutes of the conference were like. If you’ve never been there, imagine John Gage, head ...

Well, here I am, for my first time in San Francisco, at my first JavaOne! Great weather, nice city, good local beer (Anchor Steam). So much to do and see, so I barely even have time to blog. So today two days at once: let's start with monday, the university track (day 0). The university day is a pre-conference day filled with longer tracks ...