TEERA 2.0: Vancouver Sun

I was at CommunityOne today and took some pictures. So, in the morning I got to Moscone at around 9.30 and first thing I saw was lots of people lining up to do the registration (whew! good that I already did my registration yesterday).

above: relax before the event



Above: another relaxing area at Moscone South, you can also play games here

After checking out places around Moscone, I went into the Hall for general session. Quite a lot of people there but I still got my seat at the very front row!


Above: Isn't that Rich Green (the guy in black t-shirt) at the front there? Accidently caught him among the crowd



Above: Here we go!



Above: me sitting at the very front row



Above: Gathering of the sharpest minds on the planet!
From left to right: Tim O'Reilly, Rich Green, Ian Murdock, Tim Bray

After that, I went to Netbeans Software Day opening session. Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green made an opening speech. They discussed the impact of Netbeans, Eclipse, competition, and Sun's contribution. Let's say it can't be brighter for the future of Netbeans.

Above: Jonathan on Sun's contribution and future of Netbeans - "Netbeans is the focal point of Sun. If it's important to Sun, then Netbeans will be there"

Then I went to "Web 2.0 collaboration with Ajax Push" by Ted Goddard, ICESoft Technologies. Ajax Push is an interesting technology that allows server to send an update request to client's browser. I will blog about this in more detail later on in the future.

Above: Ted Goddard explaining Ajax Push and ICEFaces, open source Ajax-JSF framework

Next, I changed my mind. I didn't go to see Netbeans 6.0 as I originally planned to. The session that caught my attention was "OpenJDK - How to open source a widely adopted technology in six months or less: The Java Platform case study". And I wasn't disappointed, it was awesome! It's quite amazing to see the steps and challenges that Sun took to open source Java. Now if you are an open source developer or involving in the open source world, you will for sure want to know how one would open source globally adopted technologies like Java and Java ME. Well, Sun did it and let me tell you, it was both fun and nasty! I would like to applause for OpenJDK and Mobile & Embedded Java ME teams at Sun for doing excellent work.


Above: Sue Abellera from Mobile & Embedded Java ME team, Rich Sands Communication Marketing Exec, talked about open sourcing Java

My next session was "Netbeans Mobility". I don't often work with mobile application but I really want to see Sun SPOT. Again, I wasn't disappointed, Eric Arseneau from Sun lab showed off SPOT application development on Netbeans, Geekness at its best!



Above: Eric showed us the ultimate geek toy, the Sun SPOT


Plan changed again...instead of going to check out JRuby, I went to check out Solaris Express, Developer Edition and Nexenta at Stanford.


Above: Don Kretsch showed off optimized AMP stack and Sun Studio in Solaris Express, developer edition.

I finished off the day with Netbeans closing general session. James Gosling, the father of Java was there along with other Netbeans legends (Henry Story, Tim Boudreau, and Geertjan Wielenga.

Above: Geertjan and James Gosling