Woi, and intense, exhausting, exciting day yesterday. In typical form, we managed to setup our booth (above) and demos just moments before the Exhibitor’s Pavilion opened. The first day on the floor is always a killer: 11:30am to 8:30pm. I was wise and kept up my sustenance over that period; an apple for breakfast and an Oreo [...]
Category Archives: Java
Netbeans day: arvo
May 8, 2007 – 4:47 pm
The “JRuby: understanding the fuss” talk was very interesting. I was surprised to see how rich and “deep” the Ruby mode in Netbeans was. And step-debugging through lines in .rhtml files was a very neat trick. They asked how many people in the audience liked doing webapp development using their framework of choice. The [...]
Netbeans day: morning
May 8, 2007 – 8:02 am
After a quick visit to the Apple store, I spent the morning at the CommunityOne event (ala Netbeans day). The first general session included a chat by Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green. Although they jumped around a little, they kept coming back to “Java is too hard” (Jonathan’s words). I suppose that it is a reasonable (or [...]
Laughing out loud
May 8, 2007 – 1:10 am
I work 99.9% of the time from home. But I keep in mostly constant contact with the gang through IRC and IM. This of course brings with it the usual accompaniment of standard (lol, rofl, bbiab, ack, nak) and non-standard (co=cool, swee=sweet, mo=mos=’o=morning) shorthand phrases. Inevitably, at least for me, this physical-isolation but virtual-colocation has lead to me tuning down [...]
JavaOne once again
May 7, 2007 – 9:14 am
Just arrived at San Francisco again, for this years JavaOne. Bee-autiful day here, just enough time for a quick blog from the hotel room before heading out for drinks.
Don’t be fooled by javac -target 1.4
September 15, 2006 – 11:43 am
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been pinged a few times by cow orkers in the FishEye development team who were complaining about a mysterious JDK1.5 dependency in our code. Their development builds were breaking on a JDK1.4 JVM with an error like: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.lang.StringBuffer.append(Ljava/lang/CharSequence;)Ljava/lang/StringBuffer; The sweat started pouring the first time I got that complaint; [...]
Gartner: equal opportunity employer
July 10, 2006 – 1:26 pm
While reading the computer section of today’s Canberra Times (10 July 2006, page 14), I spotted this little gem. The talent pool in Canberra must be drying up and we are now importing aliens. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Hopefully they will turn up the the next CJUG meeting. Lets all welcome @^qebdafkb G^hqj ^k [...]
JavaOne day 2 and 3: the booth and me
May 19, 2006 – 4:21 pm
The last two days at JavaOne have been hectic. Tech Sessions I managed to get to two Technical Sessions this year (up from one last year). The first was a talk about scaling applications using a shared heap, by Ari Zilka of Terracotta. There were some interesting ideas in there, so afterwards I went to talk to some of [...]
JavaOne day one: spilt beer
May 17, 2006 – 5:44 pm
So considering the last two days, I began today with much trepidation. But luckily the day in the booth went very well (our monitors turned up earlier this morning). Okay, it went well until Pete spilt beer over one of our keyboards; but that was at the end of the day, so I don’t count that as a [...]
