TEERA 2.0: Vancouver Sun

JavaOne is on! Today was a long day. I was actually at Moscone for sessions, meeting people, and checking out things from 8 in the morning till about 10.30 at night. 

The day started with free breakfast at Moscone

 
above: Moscone catering hall

After breakfast, I attended the JavaOne 2007 keynote session.

above: Keynotes & general sessions hall
 

above: Sun's John Gage

 Above: Rich Green and announce Sun Java System Communication Application Server in partnership with Ericsson

 Among all the announcements, Two things made he most impact: Open JDK and Java Fx family.

above: Don't be misled! This is not Apple's keynote, that thing on the scren not an IPhone, and that's not Steve Jobs, it's Rich Green and the announcement of JavaFx!

above: Chris Oliver (creator of JavaFx), James Gosling, and Rich Green

above: Jonathan Schwartz

above: Be Open! Sun for Humanity. From left to right: Rich Green, Jonathan Schwartz, Dr.Djibril Diallo of United Nation, Scott McNeally

After JavaOne keynote general session, it's time to go attend session. The first session that I attended was EJB3 Tips, Tricks, and Patterns. And I did exactly as John Gage said, turn to the person beside me and make friend! The guy in this picture here is my new friend of the day, He's Suresh K. Balaraman, Principal Performance Engineer @ performance lab, Oracle. 

Now it's time for lunch. I was supposed to meet Jordan Slott, campus ambassadors' technical lead, and other ambassadors for lunch. On the way to meet them, I was on the escalator and found that number of people at this event is astonishing.

above: Geeks' heaven

above: The crowd lining up for lunch

I met Jordan, Rodrigo, and Kira. Sorry Linh, we missed you today... We went on to line up for lunch and after half an hour of line up, we finally got our food and proceeded to the dining hall.

above: Rodrigo, me, Kira

above: me, Jordan (the main guy behind campus ambassadors' technical prowess)

above: Jordan, Rodrigo, Teera, Kira


Then I had a chance to spend the afternoon with a special guest, Sun's renowned Netbeans evangelist, Roman Strobl!

above: Secret Revealed!!! Roman is a big time Eclipse user and loving it!

Roman was kind enough to spend some time with me giving me tips and advices on evangelism. I recorded our conversation as well. I'm planning to publish it as a podcast episode very soon (probably after JavaOne).

above: Roman and me

Before the next session, I had some time to check out Java Pavillion. I went straight to the biggest booth, Sun Microsystem! I got a lot of information on Netbeans SOA and BPEL modules, the guys there were really nice and trying hard to give me as much information as possible which I'm very grateful for.

I visited the WSIT and Java CAPS booth as well...but sadly, I didn't get much information out of it. Maybe because the people at the booth there aren't used to giving out general information or simply explaining what their projects do? Can't I just go there without a specific question? Well, most often, I already have some ideas what their projects are about. I just want some updates and to see the project in action. But every time I do that, I always ended up not getting anything (and I got a feeling that they want me to go away). But every time I have an issue about their products, they pay a lot of attention to me and I actually got a lot of information. So, do I have to have issue to visit the booth? It was frustrating, I just hope it'll be better tomorrow, I will pretend to have an issue and hopefully I'll get some useful information.

above: Sun booths at Java Pavillion

Out of all sessions I attended today, I like the session on Sun SPOT the most. Angela and Simon presented a SPOT project on virtual reality! What they did was a sort of motion detecting glove. If you remember the movie "Minority Report", there was a scene that Tom Cruise was using his hands to grab components and dragging directly on a glass monitor screen. Well, this thing does a very similar things!

In brief, what they did was basically attach a Sun SPOT to a data gathering glove. So when you wear the glove, the SPOT will detect your movement and move cursor on a computer screen accordingly (when you bend your fingers, the cursor on the screen will turn to be dragging a desktop component). Angela and Simon was doing the demo also with project Looking Glass, the Java 3D desktop

above: controlling the cursor on the monitor with SPOT device on her hnd

I got back home at 10.30pm and was dog-tired. My brain was fried, too much knowledge to jam in today!