Tuesday September 13, 2005
Tuesday September 13, 2005
In Beijing
So I've been absent of late ... that's a bad thing, I need to make a new years resolution (but perhaps not on the new year ... now seems like a good time). That resolution is to blog more often even if it's only to make a brief note of something ...
Anyway ... this week I'm in Beijing at Java China ... it's (I believe) the largest ever Java conference outside of JavaOne ... certainly here in Asia. I had the pleasure of doing the technical keynote this morning in front of a packed house (actually, make that houses as the keynote was being held in Beijing, yet there were events being held in 8 other cities with a satellite link-up so folks at the "spoke" sites could see and hear the event from the "hub". (In case you wonder, the other cities were Shanghai ... which was uncomfortably close to a typhoon in the area, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Chengdu, Xi'an, Dalian, Shenzhen and Hong Kong).
I've heard the numbers were somewhere between 6 and 10K developers total ... which is huge ... meeting these folks here on-site is always a thrill and you could see that everyone was excited and ready to get a brain dump from the scores of Java experts who were on-hand to talk about everything from SOA to Swing (there are something like 100 conference sessions in this two day event). I'm looking forward to tomorrow, when James Gosling is supposed to do his keynote and then the next round of tech sessions begins ...
Can't forget NetBeans, which is undergoing a "World Tour" ... part of which included another NetBeans Day here in Beijing. Unfortunately, I missed it ... which is a bit of a drag since I was supposed to moderate and speak at it ... long story there, but the short story is that as I was coming in to land at Narita (after which I had the short hop to Beijing), a severe thunderstorm (according to the pilot) parked itself right over the airport and shut the place down ... I ended up at Nagoya (and long story made short) didn't arrive in Beijing until after my talk would have finished ...
That being said, James (bless his soul) filled in for me and I hear that NetBeans day was a resounding success. I'll have to try again at the next one ...
Until next time, this is Radio Beijing ... signing off ... Posted by brewin Sep 13 2005, 01:09:51 AM PDT Permalink Comments [0]