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I'm now part of SunLabs !!!
Saturday January 21, 2006

WOW !!! The biggest news for me in a long time and I don't even blog about it !!! I actually started back on December 15th, 2006.

Well, I have moved from the Sun Tools organization to SunLabs. I've gone from working on Tools to enable Enterprise developers to more easily build Web Applications to working on Java virtual machines for small devices. Way too cool.

It turns out that I ran into one of the founders of Smalltalk, Dan Ingalls, while out for a stroll on Sun campus. It was really cool since I have spent most of my life as a developer being a Smalltalk programmer. I then find out he now works for Sun. Well we had lunch a couple of times, our release of Creator 2 was coming to an end, and I realized that I could have some fun working with Dan.

Well, it HAS been and IS a LOT of fun. The project I am now co-Principal Investigator on is Squawk. It is a Java written in Java and is targeted for small devices without requiring an OS. Styled after Squeak.

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