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Javaone 2007

This was my first time going to JavaOne. I was completely amazed with the vast number of attendants. I started my trip from Santa Cruz, 2 hours of driving from S.F., with the intention of using the public transportation and my bicycle.

These two Sun's bags would help me find other Sun Campus Ambassadors. There was a big talk about saving our planet and carbon neutral or emission reduction that was presented by John Gage in the opening of the General Sessions. Here is the webcast. I did my part by taking the bus to San Jose and then Caltrain to S.F.



This train, specifically BabyBullet, is a very fast train going to S.F., It takes about an hour to get there.

Registration!! Luckily I got here early so there was not a big line.

It just happened that I also took a picture of the information booth that later where I would found Gary, Jordan and the rest of the ambassadors gang.

Javaone, Moscone, hallway early in the morning.



If you are there early enough, you would have time to grab some donuts in the huge mesh hall.


John Gage started the opening speak. Now, I realized my camera is horrible to take pictures in the conferences.

Rich Green is an outstanding speaker. It was funny that Jonathan said Rich resembled Steve Jobs.

Close to the end of the session, Rich held a phone that looked so much like an iPhone from Apple but it was not an iPhone.

The best thing I love from this conference was the PHONE. Don't you think the phone is becoming so advanced such that it could replace Star Trek's Communicators or maybe a Tricorder?

JavaOne Pavilion. Lots and lots of companies and booths. Many booths have products that I never heard of while others such as Intel was presenting the CPU architecture that is one or two years old.

Bluedisc will wipe out DVD just as DVD wiped out CD. Each new technology will have a shorter lifespan than its predecessors. What will be after Bluedisc?



Oracle versus the Matrix. Oracle is a legendary database. It's gonna be here and in the future specially when there is so much information floating around.
What does it feel like outside the hallway at Moscone on the JavaOne week? Busy!





Sunrays are awesome! They are fast and so quiet and electricity friendly.

To use the Sunray, you need to insert a smart card for authentication. This smart card (that looks like a business that has your name on it) has an RFID antenna. For every booth that you visit, they would scan your RFID card with a SDID reader (Smart Disk ID? ) that collect your name, company, address and email (basically all the information that you used for your registration) plus the time stamp.

A place where you can play some x360 games.

This was the bike-to-work week. If you take a bike to the conference, they will take good care of your bike plus give you a beautiful water bottle.



Kira, Trevor, Rodrigo

Terra, Jordan, Gary

Terra, Gary, Jordan

Martin, Dinesh Bahal, Luis Sanchez, Terra

If you love embedded devices I like do, there is Java development stuff for hardware like a PHONE. Phoneme website. More cool toys were presented on Friday. Unfortunately my camera died. There is however a webcast recorded here.

SunSpot

One day, every car will have Java!

Posted at 11:12AM May 13, 2007 by Campus Ambassador in javaone  |  Comments[0]