Originally posted 2005-05-12 15:21:00 Bill Gates claims that the iPod will tumble towards irrelevance, displaced by mobile phones with integrated MP3 players. Can you sense the iPod envy? Frustrated at his inability to make any inroads into the portable music …
Read more →Originally posted 2006-04-17 21:37:35 Java developer resumes all look alike. They’re all too many pages, and list all the buzzwords: Eclipse, EJB, Struts, Hibernate, Spring, WebSphere. I can tell almost nothing from the resumes that cross my desk, which means …
Read more →Originally posted 2007-05-14 02:46:03 The last day of JavaOne featured Java-powered toys, introduced sequentially by James Gosling. None of them commanded more than a raised eyebrow or polite applause, except perhaps the programmable dancing robots–and that …
Read more →Originally posted 2007-05-09 08:34:22 JavaOne, DayOne kicked off to a packed room. John Gage from Sun led the session that saw several Sun luminaries (Jonathan Schwartz, Scott McNealy, James Gosling), as well as other industry leaders like NASDAQ’s CIO and an …
Read more →Originally posted 2007-05-11 07:14:01 I didn’t say, \Hello Moto\ to today’s Motorola keynote–to many fires at work to take care of. In fact, 6:00 AM found me standing outside the hotel in my pajamas, trying to find a cell signal. The keynote was supposed to …
Read more →Originally posted 2007-05-10 09:22:46 I haven’t seen an attendance figure for this year’s JavaOne, but it must approach a gazillion. The logistics of moving this many geeks from place to place would boggle my mind, if I weren’t so focused on preventing my …
Read more →Originally posted 2005-06-30 14:10:19 Last day. I woke up at 4:30 AM, packed my bags, read awhile, then headed to breakfast: pancakes at Mel’s Diner. The General Session belonged to James Gosling. He was wearing . . . drumroll, please . . . a T-shirt and …
Read more →Originally posted 2005-06-28 09:22:37 I missed the book signing. By the time I got off the plane, got my bag, and took a shuttle downtown, it was 11:20. I was scheduled to sign until 11:30, so I gave up, found my hotel, checked in, showered, changed, and …
Read more →Originally posted 2005-06-30 08:57:37 I awoke this morning chilled. I finally discovered that my window was ajar–no wonder the street sounds penetrate so fully. I’d never thought to check that–only a moron would open a window in Jacksonville, Florida. Opening …
Read more →Originally posted 2005-06-29 08:39:39 When I walked into my room at The Mosser Hotel for the first time yesterday, I gasped. I hadn’t expected a rollicking suite, but neither had I expected a room scarcely larger than my pantry back home. I’d say it’s 10’ x …
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