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20060421 Friday April 21, 2006


Java TechDays in Moscow

I'm just finishing up two great (but tiring!) days in Moscow. We've had a crew of evangelists and engineers doing non-stop detailed technical presentations. There are a lot of great bright engineers here. The event was held in the headquarters of the Russian Academy of Sciences - a building with the world's coolest clock on top. I had to go for the ritual wander through Red Square and get a typical tourist photo. Lots of fun. It's a great place. The psycho thing is that we're doing another one of these in Johannesburg in two weeks...
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sounds like good fun :-)

Posted by Alex Lam on April 21, 2006 at 12:24 PM PDT #

Thank you, James. I hope, we shall see you in following year, on Sun Tech Days 2007 in Moscow :-)

Posted by Pavel Samokha on April 22, 2006 at 12:52 AM PDT #

James, I've had tremendous respect for you and what you’ve created with Java, but I have to ask: Why hasn’t Sun done more with Java? The Java language and platform concept was years ahead of everyone else yet Sun didn’t spend the resources to market it. The technology is still on par with .Net 1.1 but is getting quickly passed with .Net 2.0 and the upcoming 3.0. Does Sun just not have the resources to advance the platform quickly? Even though I’m a MS developer, I see the need for Java as a platform and what it brings to the table. WebStart was around before MS even thought of ‘click-once’. Yet, it’s still not prevalent. You can say quite a bit about MS, but they do make it easy for developers to build (and not deploy) apps. Is it too late to hope for common Java desktop apps? You know the Java environment intimately, what needs to happen to get the platform and tools to advance more rapidly?

Posted by John Mark Howell on April 22, 2006 at 06:51 AM PDT #

That last part was supposed to say "easy for developers to build (and now deploy) apps". Sorry for that last little bit of typo. I would really like to get your opinion. Feel free to use the email addres listed if you would rather respond that way. Thanks for taking the time to consider it.

Posted by John Mark Howell on April 22, 2006 at 09:18 AM PDT #

Waav James ;) Good time... James one suggestion.. Why don’t you start a PhotoBlog too ;) so you can shore more picture of you trip.

Posted by Rajesh on April 22, 2006 at 09:32 AM PDT #

I'm sorry but I just can't let that go unchallenged.

With all due respect to our Russian sisters and brothers, I think the "world's coolest clock" category is far from decided. Perhaps some world travellers here could could do more reporting on candidates and less premature conclusion drawing. Let's see...uh... scoring categories... we've got mechanism, history, aesthetics, accuracy, robustness, precision .... Maybe there should be a special category for operating temperature?

World's coolest, indeed. I don't believe it for a second.

The pictured clock is not a bad looker, certainly.

-t

Posted by Tom Lord on April 22, 2006 at 11:57 PM PDT #

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