Hey guys!
Live from Sun's historic Santa Clara, California campus -- Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days!
We're getting going with the welcome and initial announcements. James Gosling is the keynote this morning and what's going on now is appetizers, I guess you'd call it.
Man are they tasty!
First off... we've found out what's going to happen at the end of the day... BarCamp with....
.... Dan and Sean, or as they were captured in-venue on my camera phone...
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.. Dan....
... and Sean...
Next, big announcements...
Eric Arseneau just announced that last night at around midnight the Project Squawk was open sourced last night right around midnight.
Project Squawk is a Sun Labs initiative is about taking Java to the mobile am embedded space that hits smaller targets than what Phone ME hits today.
Tomorrow there will be a talk. That's going to be a must-see
Phil Bender, Project Director from Open Cable's CableLabs, also just announced the open sourcing of a project that's anchored around Mobile and Embedded developer community. He's got a lightning talk this afternoon about what's going on for Java developers in the Cable industry.
I'm going to go to that too.
Mohamed Abdelazi, talked about the open sourcing of JXTA ME MIDP 2.0.... OK... lay(wo)man's terms: Think JXTA without proxies.
I caught Bernard in the hall....
That's Dr. Bernard Traversat.
(He's Bernard to me because he's a hot shot techno celeb who's been initiated (years and years ago) into that exclusive community of techno celebs who are my close personal friends.)
They've got an afternoon session too.
Can you even imagine... a full stack... discovery of devices across all network devices... establishing connections between two phones... creating your own virtual network between these phones... now cool is that??
Can you even imagine?
Well I'm not going to have to imagine, people, because they're doing a demo this afternoon!
:-)
Then we got the SunSPOTS guys coming up. Man, if there was ever a group of hot shot techno celebs that I needed to make friends with, those would be the guys.
(watch me work it, people. I am in my element here. I live on this stuff.)
:-)
OK. Really big day. Really big day.
It's about to begin w/James.
(exhale)
:-)