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A Dynamic Holiday Party

Angelo Rajadurai is a long-time Sun engineer who works with software vendors to make sure their products run well on Solaris. My buddy Albert Leigh was able to convince Angelo to be the featured speaker at the Austin Java Users Group (AJUG) holiday party, which Sun sponsored for the fourth year in a row.

I have never used DTrace in anger but have always wanted to learn more and Angelo delivered - I learned quite a bit. He covered the basic concepts and then drilled into numerous specific examples to show the value that DTrace provides. What was especially useful (and entertaining as well) were his war stories from the field. Those "real world" examples of DTrace being used to solve hard problems really made the topic lively.

As is normally the case, the evening started off with a short talk (a "technotizer" as it were :-) ). I was the speaker and I did an overview of just some of the new features in NetBeans IDE 6.0. I included a quick demo of some of the new editor features and then I turned it over to long-time NetBeans user (and AJUG board member) Rob Ratcliff, who did a quick demo of the new Swing Framework/Beans Binding features.

So all in all, a fun and informative evening. A few pictures below - for more check out Albert's photos here.

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