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Wednesday August 11, 2004
trey's 4th :: chat about it
trey'ster will be 4 this coming weekend. man, time does fly. we're having our house fumigated (! joy) over the weend and as such plan on going on a 3 day camping excursion coupled with a day at bonfante gardens. good times.
Java == platform independence in my ears: RadioHead/Amnesiac/Packt Like Sardines In A Crushed Tin Box [2004-08-11 21:53:45.0] Permalink
LinuxWorld.SF.04 :: chat about it
linux world sf was pretty good this year. to be fair, i was pleasantly suprised as i felt last years event, from a pavillion perspective, was pretty, for lack of a better word, fragmented. the tune "... .org to the left of me. suits to the right. here i am, stuck in the middle again" kept looping through my head. few java developers. i don't know. linux world nyc '04, on the otherhand, was a complete blast. java desktop was newly announced and folks loved it, lots of j2ee love in the air and a significant number of east coast jxta compatriots stopped by to talk shop which is always fun. that and we got a significant share of new interest in the project as well. linux world sf '04 was, on par, pretty good modulus 4 specific interactions i'm going to go into a bit more detail on in a forthcoming entry. back to the good'ness. alot of folks wanted to catch up with jxta, how has it matured, adoption stories, etc. this is a great discussion point as the project has matured significantly quarter over quarter and the adoption story stands on it's own. of the java developers i met they were split across j2ee and j2me deployments pretty evenly. the j2me (and device) folks also appreciated the news of the fully compliant jxta c implmentation with a 700k footprint. i spoke with a number of scripters who liked the idea that java is slated to support scripting and further, really got into jxta problem domain, that being an overall network overlay. i will admit this was one of the better developer-to-developer discussions i was involved with over the course of events. we also made a number of new contacts that i personally am quite excited to work with. most of these folks simply couldn't believe jxta overlays *the* network as effectively as it does. these types of discussions are always fun in that we get a chance to pull back the curtain and explore that that is jxta a bit more in detail. in the p2p domain, the discussions this go around were quite mature, meaning, clearly people realize that static addressing scales only so far, that the network is, at times, fragile, that the net is programatically open and one can not assume, well, anything. couple that with the problems i learned folks are grappling with are very real, very solutions oriented vs the-next-killer-fizzlebot thingy. i'm very much for "keeping it real." further, folks have clearly tried various p2p solutions/strategies and as such our discussions were extremely contextual. great stuff, all in all. on display, we had jxta net map which is alot of fun. for quite awhile now we've pointed to the static network overlay visual, which all things considered is perfectly correct. but, this year, we were able to go through the generic presentation and then point to the real-time jxta net and show how things are constantly changing and how jxta churns to patch, (re)route, and optimize. quite fun. the pavillion looked to be well populated and a bit more blended or complete then the previous year. i spent a bi t of time chatting with the gentoo folks. i, personally, have never met a group of more chipper linux developers then that crew. downright pleasant to talk to. sun's presentations were impressive and should there be a lack of coverage or any misconceptions on what was presented i'll do my best to represent. my esteemed booth pals were pumped, as usual. there is no doubt, we "get it," and more, big time. the demos i recall include:
the intel party was excellent. free beers, pizza and the spasmodics (i'm link challanged on this one) were greatly appreciated. apress had a booth not far from us and one day a rather long line formed to which i, quite lemming like, joined the queue. man, was i pumped about what was at the end of the line. reverand bill blunden (i'd like to find this guys home page one day ... but googling turns up nothing but bookstore links) was personally, i mean *personally*, signing free copies of Offshoring IT: The good, The bad, and the Ugly. being somewhat of a jokester i uttered "forgive me father for i have sinned" to which the ultra-hip rev simply smiled in kind and scribed the following "... you are hereby absolved of all your sins. but i can't keep people from trying to screw you ..." there was actually more to the signature including "... jxta, what the hell." it appears the rev didn't go full bore jxta like my man coolio. p2p master coolio to you. the rev did take a significant amount of time to chat individually with folks. very cool dude. the book completely rocks chalk full of external statistics building the premise for the authors perspectives. this man has been in the trenches and speaks for the people. ok, guilty. i'm a disciple :) i think it is great a local book publisher sponsered this event given they have pretty much all but vanished ... sadness. i talked to a couple of the apress folks as well ... and ate way too much of their free candy. i picked up the rev's cube farm. man, this one hits a little too close to home for some of the post dot.com projects i worked on. shudder. think happy thoughts ... happy thoughts.
Java == platform independence in my ears: Nine Inch Nails/The Downward Spiral/Reptile [2004-08-11 18:27:58.0] Permalink Comments [2] |
