Explicitly and without apology a marketing vehicle MaryMaryQuiteContrary

Thursday Sep 30, 2004

you guys, this is incredible... Calvin is still holding court over there.... he continues to be engaged in dialogue with folks who came to celebrate the release of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0.

the excitement around this release of the Java platform is electric.

So while Calvin is over there talking the technical talk, I've been working the room. and making friends. and taking pictures.

and avoiding the seriously weird crazy guy who knows less about the Java platform than i do, yet apparently comes to every single one of these NYJavaSIG meetings and gives everybody the creeps.

i'm going to tell you all about it. But i've got a plane to catch so you're going to have to wait a little while.

i've got to hop in a cab so i can get to the airport to make my flight home.

so that's the story here from New York.

post game show tomorrow. i'll have pictures!!

mary



Calvin's talk has been concluded for more than a half hour now.

the party is definately in full sing.

People have spilled out of the auditorium and are mingling, enjoying (free) food and beverages.

I look around... I don't see Calvin....

He's still in the auditorium... he hasn't been able to leave the podium...He's surrounded by folks wanting to talk to him about the Tiger release. It's been a half hour. And he's still holding court -- the crowd surrounding him is four people deep.

pictures at 11.

mary


the party's on people!

right now, even as we "speak," Calvin Austin, the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition specification lead is talking to an capacity crowd here at the NYJavaSIG about the Tiger release -- 5.0!

lots of buzz... lot's of excitement in the room.

(and frankly lots of interesting characters, if you know what i mean)

keep it tuned here for breaking developments...

mary



Hot off the Press!

Tiger Roars: an Interview with Sun Microsystems Vice President Graham Hamilton, Part One Sun Fellow, Graham Hamilton, discusses the many improvements in the newly released Tiger -- Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0. Download the JDK and find out what the key architects are saying about J2SE 5.0 by visiting their blogs

Did I ever mention that I have known Graham Hamilton for nearly a decade. And that he's a founding member of  that exclusive and tightly-knit fraternity of techno celebs who are my close, personal friends.

OK, so it's not exactly a bi-directional type of friendship.

OK, it's also true that he actually only vaguely knows me.

And that he doesn't really like making eye contact with me.

None the less.

Graham Hamilton, techno celeb
check
Graham Hamilton, personal friend and occasionally even hits reply when Mary sends him an email even though delete is a much more likely outcome.
check.

guess what else?

picture!

graham with tiger

picture of Graham with the tiger from JavaOne!

8X10 glossy.

getting it framed.

was thinking I was going to give it away.

but i can't part with it.

i'm going to put it on my desk.

Tiger, Tiger burning bright.

mary

p.s. hear Graham and James Gosling live streaming audio today at 9 a.m. US Pacific.