Yesterday was day one of this year's Brazil TechDays. We're in a different venue this year which is good as it's huge. It needs to be, as we had nearly 1500 people turn up yesterday. Jonathan Swartz was the opening keynote and then Jeff Jackson explained more about our tools and platforms strategy.

I had a busy day doing a Solaris session, a session on the new Concurrency utilities and a session on managment and monitoring in Java SE 5. This in addition to helping out with one of the hands on labs and taking part in the demo shootout (which we lost).

By the end of my day, my voice that had been threatening to give out since first thing on Monday really was on its last legs. Thankfully I made it to the end of the sessions.

Dinner was yet another churascaria, four in four days is about my limit; thankfully tonight we're going to a different type of restaurant.