I'll make this quick: the main message here is that the Desktop Track is looking better than ever this year. Besides the fact that we've got the usual array of interesting stuff to talk about and the neatest demos on the block, there's an additional twist this year that I'm pretty happy about; way more participation from the community.

This year, we went out of our way to recruit known Desktop Java developers to submit good, deep technical talks. The responses we got were fantastic, and the result was that most of the Desktop sessions this year are from outside Sun. Even better, most of those sessions are from people whose work you probably know and people that are known to be good speakers with lots of interesting stuff to talk about (and lots of interesting code to show off).

For example, here is a small sampling of the hot sessions from Desktop community people:

Yahoo!'s Ethan Nicholas (one of last year's Top 20 speakers) will be talking about his JAXX framework for XML User Interfaces
Swing consultant and Ajaxian.com's Ben Galbraith (another Top 20 speaker) will discuss Eight Ways to Be More Productive Developing Swing Applications"
IBM's Joe Winchester (JDJ editor) will give the session "It's Not Over Till the Fat Client Sings"
IBM's Steve Northover (SWT Lead) will give an in-depth intro to SWT
ClientJava.com's Scott Delap will give a session on the Event Dispatch Thread
JGoodies' Karsten Lentszch has multiple sessions: "Desktop Patterns and Data Binding" and "Do's and Dont's for Swing Applications"
There will also be a BOF panel with Ben, Joe, Karsten, and Scott (above), as well as some Sun folks, on the future of Desktop Java; that should prove to be a lively interactive discussion that I encourage everyone to attend and participate in.

I subjectively think there are some great sessions from my group at Sun as well, such as:

Scott Violet, Romain Guy, and Shannon Hickey (all Top 20 speakers from last year) will do another installment of their hit session from last year, "Extreme GUI Makeover: Lookin' Better"
Scott Violet and Richard Bair will have in-depth sessions on databinding and data access strategies (after all, a GUI without data is just a prototype)
Of course my personal favorite, maybe just because of the title, is the session I'll be giving with Romain Guy, Chris Campbell, and Ken Russell, "Filthy Rich Clients".

There are a lot of great Desktop sessions I haven't listed above; I encourage you to check them out.

And of course there are great sessions in the other tracks as well. Just make sure you don't miss your favorite Desktop sessions. There will be no makeup test.

So check out the conference site and register today.

Be Deployed (the Deployment team is hiring)

Posted by chet on April 05, 2006 at 11:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (7)

Jobs 'n' Jokes

Let's see; how should I start this?

Launch yourself into a new career...

Deploy yourself at Sun...

Pack200 your things and come work with us...

Install yourself into the deployment team...

Plug in to a new team...

Hmmm. How about something more straightforward...

Get a job.

The Deployment team at Sun is hiring; maybe we're looking for you! This is the team that creates all of the technologies that get Java packaged, delivered, and running on your system, including such products as Plugin, Java Web Start, the Java installer, and Pack200 compression technology. The team is in need of assistance in a couple of areas:

Installer: We are looking for a college hire (hopefully with some experience, at least at the intern level) to help out with the Installer product on multiple platforms.
Common components: This is a more senior position for developing common components used in nearly all of the Deployment products.

Note that both positions are for the Burlington, Massachusetts location (no working remotely for these jobs). Want to apply? Check out the job site links above for more information and submit your resume on the site.

Meanwhile, I figured this blog entry was a good opportunity for bad deployment jokes...

What do you call a browser applet that...

...takes up all the space on the page?	gapplet
...is targeted at notebook computers?	lapplet
...is for chatting?	yapplet
...is for driving directions?	mapplet
...is dull?	napplet
...is awful?	(starts with "cr")
...is about big city in the Midwest?	Minneapplet
...is a plumbing ad?	tapplet
...is used for creating hip hop music?	rapplet
...is a fighting game?	slapplet
...is a wrestling game?	grapplet
...is an ad for gift decorations?	wrapplet
...is a pharmaceutical ad?	capplet
...deserves an ovation?	clapplet
...is a lingerie ad?	strapplet
...is about big city on the East coast?	Big Applet
...is about a small person?	chapplet
...Causes a small controversy?	flapplet

But remember, the job postings are no joke. So if you think you might be interested, please ~~applet~~ apply.

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