Sun Tech Days, Hyderabad
This is the first entry in my weblog. It feels great, while at the same time brings to my mind all kinds of "What-if's". What if no one cares to read my blog? What if I can't find enough interesting material to blog about? And so on and so forth... Let's see. Take the first step. The rest will take care of itself.
Recently I have been to Hyderabad to attend Sun Tech Days, a worldwide developer conference. It was a thrilling experience. It opened my eyes. There are a lot of interesting things going on around. It's hard to keep up with all these, but believe me, it's fun and rewarding trying to. I met so many wonderful people who are so excited about new and emerging technologies. The Hyderabad International Convention Centre was like a very rich technological ecosystem. Everyone exchanged new ideas, thoughts, laughter and friendship. It felt so good, so alive. Everyone spoke the same language - Java, talked about ZFS - the filesystem of the future, and played with OpenSolaris.
James Gosling, the creator of Java, [commenting on the Sun Tech Days 'man with paint & brush' picture] - he was overly modest and claimed to be just a "chemist" who created the paint, and said we, the developers, were the creators of everything else, the imaginative geeks who drew masterpieces. I was really flattered by those words from the father of Java. He threw T-shirts at us. I wasn't lucky enough to get one, though.
There were many other renowned speakers and experts in many areas. I learnt about Solaris zones and containers, ZFS, a little bit about JavaFX, LWUIT and many other interesting things. Now, JavaFX reminds me of this interesting incident that happened in one of the tech talks. There was this lecture on JavaFX. I am intentionally leaving out the speaker's name here. It was going on pretty well except for this. During the course of the demonstration, the laptop was hacked and it had to be rebooted. Someone was being very naughty then. It left me thinking about the various ways the attack could have been made.
All in all, those three days were one of the best days of my life. Exciting, educative, fun and ...
Posted at 07:15AM Mar 19, 2009 by Soraisham Okendro in Sun | Comments[0]