Sun Tech Days - 2 & 3
At the end of the first day, my laptop charger conveniently busted and there was some problem with the internet at my friend's place. But things are back to normal now that i am back to bangalore.
I had a notion that the crowd in day 2 would be much lesser than day 1.
Well, it was wrong. After a session from Vijay Anand from Oracle, the first presentation i attended was by Jayashri and Animesh on JSF and Ajax and Project Woodstock. It was indeed very pleasant to see people attending the session in large numbers for the project that you are working on. The session was well received by the audience and after the talk the three of us spent quite some time answering queries regarding ajax and JSF in general and also abour woodstock.
I attended a session on JRuby given by Lee Chuk and Roman Strobl. It focused on Ruby programming language and its advantages and how JRuby takes advantage of Ruby + Java.
I again spent the rest of the afternoon interacting with other folks on JSF and ajax. Later in the day i attended a session by SAP on "Role of community networks in platfrom world". The talk was basically about community building for a technology and how it helps in advancement of the technology and for the developers. How the enterprise as well as the community could also benefit from it.
Day Three was an add-on day and i had decided to spend my time with the netbeans sessions. This time the key note was from Ian Murdock, Vice President of Developer and Community Marketing. The first of the netbeans sessions began with Roumen talking about Netbeans 6 and its enhancements.
There was a talk by collabnet on SVN, its features and its improvements from the previous release.
In the afternoon, attended a session on Visual Web Pack again by Jayashree. This time the talk was more focussed on VWP and its features and lesser on JSF and Ajax. There were also some demos on how to use VWP. Some of the other sessions that i attended were on netbeans mobility pack and another session by Roumen on netbeans platform.
