Vasanth Vaidyanathan's Blog

I am leaving Sun. I wish to thank all the readers of my blog. Please keep in touch: vasanth (dot) vaidya (at) gmail (dot) com. I hope to write more in my personal blog when I find time.

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From Christine Dorffi, Managing Editor, SDN Web Content - Mobility/JavaFX/Java ME

If you have a question about the JavaFX Preview, post your questions during this session and get answers from three key members of Sun's JavaFX engineering team: Josh Marinacci, Martin Brehovsky, and Larry McDonough.

Typically, a one week period is designated for questions on a specific Ask the Experts topic. You can submit a question on that topic any time during that week. We'll collect the questions periodically and send them to the experts. We'll then post a selected set of questions and answers. Although the experts will try to answer as many questions as feasible, there is no guarantee that all questions will be answered.

Get more information at the Ask The Experts.

Wombat Object Basics (Young Developer Series) is aimed at anyone age 10+, and explains what Java objects are and how they interact with each other, using examples from the Greenfoot Wombat scenario.

Sun Microsystems was showcased in today's "Indigo at work" program (9am - 10am). I understand this is a weekly program on Radio Indigo FM 91.9, where different companies are showcased. Today, the host Malavika talked about work culture at Sun and what it means to be a Sun employee working in Bangalore. Some Sun employees were also on air talking about what they like at Sun. Good show, folks!

Click here for more information about Sun.

You have used NetBeans and agree it's cool. So why not tell the world about it? If you can win $500 by just blogging, why would you say no? Check out the NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta Blogging Contest. What should you do?

• Download NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta (or later) and try it out
• Blog about it
• Submit the blog URL using the contest form
• Do all this before April 18, 2008

As simple as that! What are you waiting for?

Sun's India Engineering Center (IEC), Bangalore is a part of Sun's open source movement. You can track all the action and excitement around open source in IEC in this blog: http://blogs.sun.com/iecopensource/ . I am proud to be contributing to this "open source" blog.

My IPG colleagues attending Sun Tech Days 2008 in Hyderabad have been doing a great job with "live blogging". They provide hourly updates about what is happening there. It is great to be able to know what is happening through these "happening blogs". Check out Sun Tech Days 2008 Live Blogging for more information.

Blogging really energizes me. I am posting a lot of entries in my personal blog, called "Just Me!". I thought it would probably be better to restrict this blog to Sun and related stories. Personal entries on my Sun blog would be fine once in a while.

Some of my recent entries:

• Currently reading: Winning by Jack Welch
• The tunnel of time
• Railway Budget 2008

Keep reading them, and send me your comments.

Sun India Managing Director Bhaskar Pramanik has been featured in the section of India's Biggest Newsmaker (top 25) by Business Today. This is an annual study conducted by BT to bring out which CEOs, Companies and Groups got the best press in 2007.

The methodology used was:

• Visibility score - size of the article, interviews, publication, position in the publication and readership of the publication
• Image Score - Depending upon positive, neutral, negative messages
• Quality of Exposure - determines relationship between VS and IS (above) 100+ is positive, 100 is neutral and -100 is negative. Bhaskar is one of the highest !
• Categories - industry, group, etc

KP Unnikrishnan Director, Marketing & Alliances for Sun India sent us this story.

I had a couple of personal blogs earlier that I deleted. Here's another attempt. It's called ...Just Me! Check it out, and send me your comments.

Thanks to my cousin Anand, I am the proud owner of a high-end wireless router! I called up my ISP, and a field person came in this evening to setup the router for me. The setup process was real quick - under 10 minutes. Now, I can freely access Internet anywhere inside my home and even outside (within the range of my wireless router). This has given me a great sense of freedom. Freedom from cables and freedom from being restricted to a single place at home for accessing Internet.

Go wireless now!

I am currently attending a session on CMS by Akash Dubey. This session is organized as part of Bangalore Technical Writers Meetup Group. Click here for more information on the session.

The world's cheapest car was unveiled today. It costs Rs. 1 lakh (or USD 2500). Click here for more information.

I know this is delayed - but, wish you all a happy and fun-filled new year 2008! New year is a time to make and break resolutions. I started with a couple of resolutions and seem to have broken that already :-) Meanwhile, this is a time to say "thank you" to all the regular readers of this blog. You make my day.

I was a little busy last week collecting the investment proofs that need to be submitted as part of my tax declaration. These receipts seem to be strewn all across and I took some time to set my cupboard in order. Every time, I resolve to keep my accounts and investments in order - but I can't really say I am very successful with that. May be you readers can offer some tips?