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February 2006 Archives

TechDays in Chennai

TechDays are just like JavaOne, except instead of taking BART into San Francisco, I flew halfway around the world to get here. There were 3 tracks: roughly JavaME and JavaSE, JavaEE, and Community activities. It was wonderful, for me at least, of having the focus on just developers. It also made the event much more humane than JavaOne; with many fewer people around attendees who wanted to talk one-on-one could find the speakers and corner them for blocks of time. I also got to go to a lot of sessions I usually miss at JavaOne, so that was educational, too.

I got a lot ofinteresting questions, and I hope I encouraged some people to put their ideas up as java.net projects. The most impressive business card I got was from someone at the Indian Department of Atomic Energy, who wants to use real-time Java to control nuclear power plants.

I'm looking forward to Pune, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Delhi. If any of you jdk.Researchers are at the events, please come and introduce yourselves! The point of these trips is to meet with developers and build the java.net community, and face-to-face time is a great way to do that.

Where's Peter?

After that I'll be participating in the Sun Developer Day on February 9th in Pune, and one in Kolkata on February 14th. Then it's off to the Sun University day at Delhi University on February 16th. A chance for me to meet a lot of really smart developers, and see if we can't drum up some exciting new java.net JDK projects.

If you are at any of those events, please come by and introduce yourself.

I hope to point a lot of people at java.net and the JDK community. That will mean more competition for the Mustang Regression Challenge, but competition is good.

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