There was about 300 people, it was really great. We had some local speakers.

We had one international speaker - Tim Boudreau.

We did an exposition of two Sun Workstation (Ultra 20),we demonstrated the Solaris OS and some tools of Sun, including the Projet Looking Glass.

We had two demo sessions today! They are about Netbeans Mobility Pack, Mobile Gaming and Project Darkstar. It was pretty good, some people were incredible about how easy you can development programs to mobile devices and games.

Here are some usefull links about them:

Building Mobile Apps Using the Netbeans Mobility Pack:

• NetBeans Mobility Pack
• NetBeans Mobility Pack For MIDP/CLDC 5.5 Quick Start Guide
• NetBeans 5.0 End-2-End Demo
• NetBeans Mobility Pack Features
• NetBeans Day Mobility Demo
• JSR-000139 Connected Limited Device Configuration 1.1
• JSR-000118 Mobile Information Device Profile 2.0
• Java ME Demo

Building Mobile Games Using Java ME:

• MIDP 2.0 Games: a Step-by-Step Tutorial with Code Samples
• J2ME Game Optimization Secrets

Internet Gaming with Project Darkstar:

• Project Darkstar
• MPK20:Sun's Virtual Workplace

Any questions: Stefani.Pires@Sun.COM

InfoWorld, Paul Krill; March 1, 2007

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/01/HNsunruby_1.html

Sun announces the early-access release of the NetBeans Ruby Pack, a Java implementation of Ruby that runs on the Java Virtual Machine. Sun Senior Staff Engineer Tor Norbye states, “Ruby developers typically have not been using IDEs, but Sun's announcement really gives you a much more productive environment than you've had for Ruby before ... The key thing is Ruby developers have not been used to getting a lot of the features you've had in the Java world, such as code completion … This helps you write Ruby on Rails apps faster.” RedMonk Principal Analyst James Governor adds, “By accommodating Ruby, Sun is branching out from its Java. If you just look at this overall, there are some sacred cows being slaughtered here. There is a real change in Sun's thinking, and it really does (appear) that the Java permafrost is beginning to thaw, with Sun supporting scripting languages like Ruby. Ruby is the hottest scripting language out there right now. (I expect) Sun to make a similar move to support another popular scripting language, PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor).”

Hello folks,
For those who were in our DemoSession and for those who are not ;) these are some interesting links to access for more details:

Sun Academic Initiative: To login or register

Netbeans:

• NetBeans IDE 5.5 Quick Start Guide
• GUI Building in NetBeans IDE 5.5
• Developer Collaboration Module Quickstart
• NetBeans Profiler 5.5 Tutorial

Java 6 (Mustang):

• What's New in Java SE 6
• Java SE 6 Release Notes Features and Enhancements

Java Teaching Resources:

• BlueJ - The Interactive Java environment
• Java Education and Development Initiative

On March 2^nd, we had our first TechTalk at Federal University of Parahyba, in Brazil.
Rafael and I are the ambassadors here, and we had a speech together. We talked about the Sun Academic Initiative - which benefits Sun brings for our university and how we could access them, Netbeans 5.5 Desktop, BlueJ and What's new in Java 6 (Mustang). It was a success, It had been 56 people and many of them had been enthusiastic.