JavaOne 2009 Photos
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Here's some pictures of the JavaOne 2009 conference at the Moscone Center in San Fransisco, CA.
Archive for June, 2009
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Here's some pictures of the JavaOne 2009 conference at the Moscone Center in San Fransisco, CA.
Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty – Update Manager
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009I've been using Ubuntu Jaunty for a few weeks now. So far, I've been very happy with it, and there have been some great improvements - most notably for me, the boot time - I run it on two different laptops (work and home), so I go through the boot sequence ...
Default (All-Java) Tomcat Faster Than Using Apache Portable Runtime?
Monday, June 8th, 2009
I got a request from a client for performance-tuning Tomcat. Typically, I don't really do a lot performance tuning for Tomcat - usually, I front it with Apache HTTPD, and spend most of my performance tuning efforts on the application, not the server. I got thinking about it, though, and remembered that ...
JavaOne 2009 – Thur. 6/4
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
This morning's general session was the Microsoft keynote. Microsoft and Sun made a pretty good attempt at trying to convince the crowd the the two companies are friendly competitors, and the interoperability is the highest goal for both. It looks like they may indeed be making inroads in the data center ...
JavaOne 2009 – Wed. 6/3 – Afternoon
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
On Wednesday afternoon, I attended the session, "Creating Compelling User Experiences", by Ben Galbraith from Mozilla. It was a very interesting session, with lots of quotes from user interface luminaries. My favorite was a quote from usability expert Louis C. K. - "Everything's amazing, and nobody's happy". My take-aways were: Good back-end software ...
JavaOne 2009 – Wed, 6/3 – Morning
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
First, an observation - today, I decided to stop lugging my laptop around, and left it at the hotel - I'm fully dependent on the SunRay terminals today - the wireless connectivity left a lot to be desired yesterday, anyway I'm sure that the virtualization network is under maximum load right ...
JavaOne 2009 – Tues, 6/2 – Afternoon
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
I attended two sessions this afternoon. The first was "State of the Open Web", by Mark Pilgrim and Patrick Chanelon from Google. Mark and Patrick discussed an impressive array of new features in HTML5 (canvas, video, and audio tags, offline apps, and client-side databases), the latest and upcoming JavaScript versions (real class ...
JavaOne 2009 – Tues, 6/2 – Morning
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
This morning started off with the opening general session, entitled "Java - Change (Y)our World". Considering the current uncertain times for Java, Sun did what they needed to do at the start of JavaOne - they showed the strength and reach of Java, showed that it has a strong future, and ...
JavaOne 2009 – Monday, 6/1
Monday, June 1st, 2009
I just arrived at JavaOne 2009, in San Fransisco, CA. Got here pretty much just in time to register before the registration desk closes for the evening. Things really get started tomorrow. My first impression upon arrival was, "wow - this is really big" (yes, this is my first JavaOne - can ...
