....Technical Evangelist for the Java Mobile & Embedded Community, has just published a great wrap-up of Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days on his blog.
(Don't you just love that title. Technical Evangelist. And you don't even have to go to church.)
:-)
And induldge me while I take this opportunity to congratulate Terrence and the entire team for putting on a FABULOUS event.
Mary
We're wrapping up the day here at Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days with a pannel discusion..
on Developing and Deploying Content in the RealWorld featuring:
Great pannel. Shared perspective around negotiating the carrier relationships, building developer communities, standards and fragmentation discussions.
(which featured some very lively perspective :-)
The pannelists came to this event from all over the world and it was great to get that global perspective.
Overall, an amazing day. An absolutely amazing day.
These guys did an absolutely fantastic job.
And since I got a chance to corner the boss, Onno Kluyt:
I told him that.
:-)
Mary
and ...
Mohamed Abdelaziz gave an awesome preso on JXTA Java Micro Edition 2.5.
In a nutshell...
peer-to-peer handset to handset
peer-to-peer handset to desktop
without proxies.
Easy P2P mobile content sharing.
I believe this is the future.
I've had a special place in my heart for JXTA for a very long time.
I love hearing about these guys are working on.
(and I think there might be a way to work what Bernard and Mohamed talked about into my day job.)
I've got an idea...
:-)
Mary
Ray Gans is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet.
He is the man of the hour here today.
His organization put on Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days.
They've done just a fantastic job.
I caught him between sessions in the hall outside. He, Rich Sands and I had a really nice talk.
It was so great to get to see Ray and Rich and catch up.
What a great team these guys are.
They're doing such fantastic work and they're a bunch of the nicest people you will ever meet.
Mary
OK. Get ready because I know you're not even going to believe this.
(But I've got pictures to prove it.)
:-)
I just got to drink in the most incredible presentation on Project Sun SPOT -- a Sun Labs project.
It is SO COOL.
The SPOT stands for Small Programmable Object Technology. It's Java in the most mobile and embedded of spaces - on the metal.
The team presented an inspiring and engaging overview which included...
There were demos.
It was just AWESOME.
But there were some best parts.
Two actually.
1. I got to take a picture of the team once the presentation was done. (be still my beating heart; I'm well on my way to inducting these hot shot techno celebs into that tightly knit (and exlusive community) of hot shot techno celebs who are my close personal friends. They were all super nice to me. It was very cool.
2. THE Dr. Ron Goldman, author of Innovation Happens Elsewhere, and super hot shot techno celeb ....
.... indicated that he kind of knew of me and my blog. I was so overwhelmed by the whole experience I couldn't really think of anything to say back so I kind of punched him on the shoulder and mumbled something.
ALSO
I'm super working the angles to try to secure a Sun SPOT to give away as Friday Free Stuff soon. Don't hold me to it because we're talking about some super high value stuff here. But I am trying to work it. And you know how resourceful I can be. But no promises. It would be the highest value Friday Free Stuff give-away of all time, If I can make it come together.
I'll work it.
:-)
(and keep you posted.)
Mary
One of the coolest things about being here at Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days is getting to hang out w/the hot shot techno celebs who come here from all of the world to participate in this.
At lunch I got to meet hot shot techno celebs from Sprint, Intel, Medio, the Southwest Research Institute and ...
Erik Hellman, Java developer extraordinaire.
It turns out that Erik and I are one degree of separation.
We're both friends with Rags.
Erik told me he presented at JavaOne last year -- a session on what he could do in 50 mins. It turns out he can build Java app in 3D to run on a phone in 50 mins....
Very cool.
He's on NetBeans 6.0.
He let me play w/a 3D game he built that was running on his phone.
Very, very cool.
This place is the place to be. I'm having so much fun.
Here's how to get plugged in, if you weren't able to come in person...
How To View The Broadcast:
- Make sure you have the latest version of the Adobe Flash player installed
- To test your set-up go to the ustream.tv home page and try to view an existing video stream
- During conference, go to the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days ustream conference page to view the conference broadcast
- You will see two channels: one for the Auditorium track and one for the track in the upstairs room. Click on the one you want to see.
James Gosling is keynoting today's innargural Java Mobile and Embedded Developer Days.
He started out by talking about the fact that when "we" started Java all those many years ago, it was all about the mobile and embedded developer space.
(I always like to think of myself included whenever James says the word "we," though I'm not entirely sure that James likes to think of me when he says "we.")
:-)
He talked about the proliferation of the Java platform in the mobile and embedded space... the numbers are always staggering when you hear them -- 5 billion-ish Java enabled devices (w/2.5 billion of those in the Java handset space).
He talked communal development w/Java.net, Glassfish, OpenSolaris
"There are thousands of ways to get involved with the many aspects of the communities. And all of the comunities are interconnected. NetBeans being the perfect example.
Marching orders from James: "If you haven't tried NetBeans, just go to it."
And as somebody who self-admittedly was heavily involved 25 years ago, James gave some advice: "If you're still using Emacs, give it up. It was a good idea 30 ears ago. It's depressing that people are still using it.
The he talked about Extreme Java.
(Which always gets me to lean forward in my chair because you know how I love going fast :-)
He talked about some of the incredible demos we saw at JavaOne including the Java powered helicopter that flies over terrain and makes a 3D model of what it flew over within a half-inch margin of error, the submersable vehicle... real time int he embedded space that give you control in the 10-15 milisecond range...
(Details on all this stuff here.)
He talked about NetBeans 6.0 which shipped right before Christmas. He talked about Sentilla -- instrumentation on a chip the size of a penny.
(It made me smile to see that James -- Canada's officer of the Order of Canada, the second-highest honor for civilians -- a Canadian penny to make his point in the slide :-)
He talked about performance. He talked about Open Source. He talked about the new cell phone generation and what you can do with these new gadgets when you start plugging in the new APIs.
Then it was on to "the big thing for us in the Java organization over the past year."
It's all about making rich user experiences that span a lot of different modalities on the edge of the network.
He talked about how the distinction between the desktop, the server, the embedded space is slowly fading away.
"They're all following Moore's law."
Then it was on to Blue Ray and what happened at CES a few weeks ago.
James' take: "The competition to Blue Ray has collapsed. They just haven't admitted it yet."
Lots of attention on Java FX and the pieces that define it.
(There's going to be a break-out session on it this afternoon. You know I'm there.)
So it was a really, really great talk.
James had a bit of trouble w/his slides. And he couldn't find his favorite JavaCard in his wallet when he went to look for it. (It was the card to ride London's Underground he (and everybody else who wants to ride the Underground) uses
But overall, a really, really great talk.
It's such a charge to get to see James. It's inspiring and engaging every time he talks. So it was a great way to kick off the day.
:-)
Mary
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...
.
.. 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)
:-)