Sun has joined the openAJAX Alliance and the Dojo Foundation to help ensure open standards for AJAX programming and increase interoperability across AJAX technologies, JavaScript libraries, and browsers! Exciting exciting!

Need more information? Read Greg Murray's blog for all-you-need-to-know news and updates on Java and AJAX.

Up until now, everywhere I go, the most frequently asked questions to me used to be....

So Kiran....
1. What is evangelism anyways ??

followed by....
2. What are the hot technology trends ??

sometimes followed by....
3. Can you please have so and so to blog about us ??


And now that goes something like....
1. What do you think about Jonathan as the new CEO ??

AAaahh……

I think my blog needs some pictures. Here's the first one. Me and James Gosling at the Mexico City TechDay.



More interesting pictures to come...

Now that we have our award-winning tools (Java Studio Creator and Java Studio Enterprise) availabe for free, we decided to throw in some free Support as well! (Mary Christmas to you all! )

We have rolled out the "pilot" of Sun's "per incident" support model and the cost for it is $0!! Yes, absolutely free developer support!!

What does it include?
In this phase of the pilot we are supporting Java SE 1.4.2 and 1.5 (with the exception of no Desktop/GUI APIs) AND Java Studio Creator 1 and 2. We will be adding support for Java Studio Enterprise 7/8 and Sun Studio 10/11 for Solaris soon, with EE following later on.

Is it always going to be free?
No, it is a limited-time offer.

Where do I get more information?
Please visit http://developers.sun.com/developer_help/ to find out more about it.

Sun just announced that Java Studio Creator and Java Studio Enterprise developer tools are now available FREE with SDN (Sun Developer Network) membership!!!! For more details, please visit: http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/free/

Java Studio Enterprise is built on the top of NetBeans 4.1 and offers the following extra capabilities

     -UML modeling
     -Developer collaboration
     -J2EE application profiling and load testing

Tutorials of the Java Studio Enterprise can be found at: http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jsenterprise/learning/tutorials/index.html

Java Studio Creator is also built on NetBeans platform and JavaServer Faces (JSF)technology and lets you build Web application through Drop-and-drop UI component model.

Tutorials of the Java Studio Creator can be found at: http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/learning/tutorials/index.jsp

See it, feel it, and believe it!

Did you miss the world's biggest Java conference this year? Not to worry. We've got you covered. :-)

The 2005 JavaOne conference *multimedia* sessions are now available! And you can get it all for free, right here!

You have to be an SDN member to get free access to technical sessions. Registration to SDN is free and only takes a minute.
Register now at http://developers.sun.com/register.

Enjoy! :-)

I’m terribly sorry for the delay. I’ve finally managed to upload my Java ME presentation! Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments.

And yes, all the technical sessions from the JavaChina conference can be found at http://gceclub.sun.com.cn!

Go nuts! :-)

I am not a big fan of blogging. I would much rather talk to all 6,446,131,400 people in the world IN PERSON! :-)

Thanks to Robert Scoble who helped me get over the fear of blogging, I am finally here! Robert holds the "Microsoft's Geek Blogger" title as he happens to be one of the most connected people in the blogosphere. Can't beat that. But thanks Robert for getting me started. :-)

I am a big fan of Bill Maher (Can't say the biggest because I am too cheap to pay for HBO and I religiously watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart :-P) Since his book New Rules is sitting in front of me, I can't think of anything more interesting to write about. I recently discovered that no matter what state of mind I am in, it manages to make me laugh every time I read it. Not to mention that I have read this book only 11'd times so far! ;-)