Well, tomorrow morning I'm leaving for San Francisco. There are two basic reasons for my excitement:

1. The last time I've been in San Francisco was in 2002 - a lot of time ago.
2. I should have been there in 2005, since my paper about Jini in Formula One had been accepted; but I fell ill the day before leaving. The presentation was performed by two excellent co-workers of mine, but my morale had been under the ground for weeks. So this is my second chance.

There will be intense days next week, also because I'm trying to release a new stable version of blueMarine and there are still failing tests. On the other hand, no problems of course for the JavaOne demo - I'm just trying to see whether I manage in integrating the latest release (0.5.0) of NASA World Wind, which is still hot (published two days ago). Thanks to Dave Collins from the WWJ forum that sent me a patch I've been able to deal with a few API changes and blueMarine seems to work. Now it's a matter of passing some more integration tests to see whether the update qualifies for the demo.

I'm pretty excited for this release since it includes an OpenStreetMap layer, which is pretty useful - and looks nice, as you can see (Pat Murris also blogged about it).