TEERA 2.0: Vancouver Sun

I just passed my driving test today after two failed attempts. Odd enough, I've been driving in Thailand for years before I came to Canada and never had any accident there. Not to mention that Vancouver traffic seems mellow compare to the chaos on the street in Thailand.

Once I passed the test, I just realized that there's a big different in 'driving safe' and 'safe driving'. IMHO, driving safe relates to me not hitting or getting hit by someone else. This doesn't include the situation where your driving cause others to be in a harmful situation!

At least on the test, what we gotta do is 'safe driving'. This means that we are aware of other street patrons, environment, and follow traffic rules strictly. The only reason (that I could think of) for me failing twice would be the 'driving safe' habit I got from Thailand. I learned my lesson. Hopefully I'll become a better driver.

Moral of the story: driving without an accident is hard enough, but safe driving is much harder!

You can see the video recording Steve Jobs and Bill Gates talk at D5 | All Things Digital conference on May 30th 2007 here:

Part 1: http://d5.allthingsd.com/20070530/steve-jobs-and-bill-gates-together-part-1-of-7/

Part 2: http://d5.allthingsd.com/20070531/video-steve-jobs-and-bill-gates-together-part-2-of-7/

Part 3: http://d5.allthingsd.com/20070531/video-steve-jobs-and-bill-gates-together-part-3-of-7/

Part 4: http://d5.allthingsd.com/20070531/video-steve-jobs-and-bill-gates-together-part-4-of-7/ 

Part 5: http://d5.allthingsd.com/20070531/video-steve-jobs-and-bill-gates-together-part-5-of-7/

Part 6: http://d5.allthingsd.com/20070531/video-steve-jobs-and-bill-gates-together-part-6-of-7/

Part 7: http://d5.allthingsd.com/20070531/video-steve-jobs-and-bill-gates-together-part-7-of-7/

I also like Cisco's John Chambers video as well
http://d5.allthingsd.com/category/john-chambers/

Today's the last day of JavaOne 2007. The morning general session starts with "Toy Show" hosted by James Gosling, the father of Java. After a week of intense technical sessions, hands-on labs, and BOFs, everyone seemed to be fatigued, but the enthusiasm was still there. I for one, have not had much sleep this week. I arrived at Moscone a little late, most people were already proceeded into the hall for the show.

Thousands were looking forward for JavaOne last day showdown

Astonishing performance boosted up energy

James presented the "Toy Show"

Tor Norbye showed us mashup application with JRuby, Swing Application Framework, and Data persistence

Martin Morissette and SONIA AUV team were honored by James

Martin, the software team lead presented his work to James

 

General session broke out, everyone went back to their sessions

Martin in action (again), this time he's doing technical session on his project. It was great, nobody fell asleep, nobody left the room until after Q&A session.

Java is indeed relevant. After switching from C/C++ to Java in 2003, the SONIA team climbed up from 7th place to 2nd place in the competition.

Me and the legendary Sang Shin, my mentor. Sang was kind enough to meet up with me. We shared our thoughts on technology and had a lively conversation.

See you in 2008!

After the Toy Show, I became more understanding of this year JavaOne
theme: "Open Possibilities". 2006 has been a breakthrough year of Java
and Sun. Not just technological innovation, but also the embracing of
open collaboration. The next big thing for 2007 and the year to come
will not be a specific technology, but various things that together
shape our culture, develop new business model, and change the way we
live.

This became evident to me when I saw James' Toy Show. New
kinds of devices are being introduced to the world everyday, ranging
from things as small as RFID, smart card, mobile device, robotic, to
larger things like heavy machinery, and artificial intelligence (AI)
controlled device. Just look around ourselves today, how many
electronic gadgets are we carrying on with us? How many of them can
give us connection to the network and others? It's not just cell phones
or PDAs anymore. All of us will eventually form a network so large like
there have never been before. It's no longer about computers or
routers. Imagine the world where all of us, "WE" become those nodes of
a single network. Breakthrough innovation is not a new thing, it's been
there for decades. But from now on, it will happen at a faster speed.
Innovation will not come from an engineer (like the time Woz
single-handly created Apple II) or a small group of smart folks. It
will come from that network we form, the web of collaborative
intelligence.

And what will be the turnkey factors that will
make this possible? - a few things. IMHO, first, we all will have to be
open. Not just open source our projects, but open our minds to new
ideas and open our hearts to one another. Next, open technology will
act as a change catalyst. With Java being open sourced, engineers and
developers around the globe can customized and modified it to fit their
new devices. Excitement and enthusiasm are infectious and highly addictive. The era where
one entity can control the pace of innovation has come to an end.
Welcome to the "Participation Age".

You can watch the webcast of today's general session HERE