The Conference Floor

There a lot to explore around the Moscone center at JavaOne this year. Get your photo clicked at the Duke’s Photo Op booth or play games on a PS3 or watch a movie or buy some cool T-shirts from the Java Retail store or buy yourself some cheap books at the bookstore or just hang loose on the bean bags at Gosling’s memory lane.

James Gosling’s Memory Lane

As soon as we entered the Moscone center and walked down the escalator, we witnessed a wall with a huge banner stuck on to it like a wallpaper with various cartoons of James Gosling in different Duke T-shirts. The board on the left reads “For 14 years, James Gosling has created limited-edition Duke t-shirts for JavaOne. In this banner, he's brought together many of those designs”. This place was called the James Gosling Memory Lane. On the first and second day this place was full of floating balloons with small cards attached to them where you could put up any message you wanted and after that it had tonnes of bean bags for conference attendees to sit and relax between sessions.

Duke’s Photo Op

You couldn’t miss this one! Here you could stop by and get a photo taken with our beloved Duke! There were 2 versions – either get a photo with Duke in person or with a virtual Duke!

The AMD Hang Space

This in my opinion, was the best thing I liked about JavaOne. When you’ve participated in a lot of sessions and just need a break, this was the place to be at. Bean bags with playstations, a lounge space, a movie theatre and a whole lotta fun! The great escape from all the seriousness!

Hacker Stations

Sun Ray powered thin clients providing access to the internet so that you can stop by to check email, surf the web, check your session schedule in the schedule builder, or tweet your JavaOne updates!

This is part of a series of blog posts on my JavaOne 2009 experience..