Mobile Monday Austin at Sun

Mobile Monday is a community of mobile technology enthusiasts. They have chapters all over the place. The ring leader for the chapter here in Austin is Enrique Ortiz. A while back he asked if Sun would be interested in sponsoring a Mobile Monday meeting. We agreed and it happened on March 19.

The featured speaker was Stuart Marks who works in Java ME engineering. Stuart did a short presentation and then spent most of his time doing demos of Sun's Wireless Toolkit. That provided an excellent transition to my demo of the NetBeans Mobility Pack.

The Wireless Toolkit helps you test your mobile application. It provides lots of emulators for things like location services and network servers and what-not. But it has almost no support for actually writing your application. That support comes from the award-winning NetBeans Mobility Pack.

All in all, it went well. There were some interesting questions and discussion. The actual highlight of the meeting for me was meeting Tom Corbin. He came up and introduced himself. He is a regular out on nbusers and he thanked me for answering one of his questions. I did not even realize we lived in the same city!

Many thanks to Albert Leigh for handling all the logistics for the meeting. And to Enrique and to Marisa Sladek for bringing Mobile Monday Austin to Sun.

Photos below. Click for full size.

	The food table was popular, as always
	Stuart and Enrique
	Stuart makes the case for Java
	I am almost finished building the application....